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Visit with William Tunberg – Artist

“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”
St. Francis of Assisi

Silas Kopf: Recent Works

May 6 – June 25, 2011 On the first floor, Wexler Gallery is pleased to present recent works by master studio furniture maker and Marquetry artist Silas Kopf. The exhibition will run from May 6th through June 25th, 2011.

Trend Spotting The Inlay Arts

Trend Spotting Log Each day I notice inlay arts news items passing by like so many thought trains relating to this or that trend. I’m starting a monthly trend spotting log: I’ll log the topic along with links; jot down a few notes; publish the log at the start of the month and add new items as…

Marquetry Art Juxtaposed

How the Studiolo from Gubbio inspired Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s “Room” Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s remarkable story Taylor was born in 1974 in Selma, Alabama and grew up in Las Vegas. She earned a BFA in 2001 from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and an MFA in 2005 from Columbia University. While in…

William Tunberg – Fine Artist and Creator of Marquetry Sculpture

Creating Marquetry Sculpture “In creating marquetry sculpture, I call upon my lifelong love of assemblage and classical drawing. My materials are exotic natural and dyed veneers that I fragment, assemble, and reassemble, and ultimately laminate over complex sculptural forms of my own devising. I consider the resulting imagery as personal narratives expressed in my own…

Silas Kopf – A Marquetry Odyssey

“Demystifying marquetry and bringing it into the 21st century is welcome and timely. It’s wonderful that the person who is ‘best at it’ is open to sharing his uncommon vision.” Wendell Castle*     From the review on Amazon: “Neatly interwoven with chapters on the evolutionary history of inlay and marquetry, Silas Kopf takes us…