BOSTON GLOBE
A Convergence of Boston Sculpture
by Sebastian Smee, June 27, 2013
Sculptors tend to dream big. They have to. They are not obliged, like painters, to confine their works to interior walls. They are expected, instead, to compete with nature, with architecture, with urban landscape.
Movement is key, too, to the success of George Sherwood’s “Wave Cloud,” a circle of hundreds of moving metal pieces suspended, like a halo, above a simple base and stand. The shiny metal pieces shimmer in the breeze, and connect in your imagination with the firmament above. It’s a very simple piece, but it’s wonderfully effective, and it gets you thinking and dreaming like a sculptor. That is to say, big.
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