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Modern New York sculptor working in bronze and steel (modern sculpture, bronze sculptures). Web site features gallery of works and information about the artist.
Clement Meadmore in his sculpture endows a single form with clarity and rigor while at the same time conveys the complexity,
expressiveness and dynamics of classic modernist sculpture which underlies Meadmore's pursuit of a gestural or "drawn"
character for his sculpture. Aside from matters of proportion, his work acquires a monumental scale and a mode of
address that is engaged in rather than detached from the frankly public, occasionally heroic voice it adopts.
In a typical sculpture by Clement Meadmore, a single, rectangular volume repeatedly twists and turns upon itself before
lunging into space, as if in a mood of aspiration or exhiliration, or simply to release physical forces held in tension.
Meadmore's works have always fused elements of Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism.
Since Meadmore's bronze sculptures are often large, this impression of effortless physical grace is simultaneously underscored
and called into question through the fluid signature like immediacy of their physicality.
The combination of Minimalism's ascendancy in the 1960's and its uncompromising reductiveness
precipitated a kind of crisis of values for Meadmore, giving him the resolve to move beyond
Minimalism by establishing a set of variant aesthetic terms to work with and against.
Indeed, despite superficial similarities of bronze sculptures with minimalism including, their formal clarity,
their basis in geometry, their preference for smooth, uninflected surfaces, and, above all in their penchant
for single, unitary forms - Meadmore's modern sculpture express ideas and feelings beyond their
factual presence. Unlike the minimalists, meadmore never begins with an idea developed in advance (bronze sculptures).
His compositions are arrived at intuitively.