AMERICAN CRAFT
John Grade: Engineering Entropy
by Suzanne Ramljak, October 2010
Through discussions with writers and musicians, Grade began to view sculpture less as a static object and more as a composition with narrative sweep.
Grade’s outdoor works can be seen as variants of performance art, rather than as environmental or land art, to which they’re often compared. Instead of enlisting his own body as performer, he recruits his crafted surrogates to be ravaged by nature, and then presents the aftermath on public display.
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