Willard Boepple
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Room 2
2002
Aluminium
244 × 244 × 244 cm / 8 ft x 8 ft x 8 ft
Biography
(1945-)
One of America's most respected sculptors, Willard Boepple has exhibited widely since the mid-seventies. Born in Bennington, Vermont, he was exposed to the work of Anthony Caro, Kenneth Noland, Isaac Witkin and Jules Olitski at the progressive art college there during the 1960s. He later served on the faculties of Bennington College and the Boston Museum School and is chairman of the Triangle Artists' Workshop in New York.
Boepple's sculptures are primarily influenced by utilitarian objects that interact with humans, such as ladders, shelves and mechanisms with levers and cogs. It is not the objects themselves that are of interest but their dimension, size and proportions. Room 2 is one of a series of sculptures taking the form of open structures containing shelves, which can be walked through and inhabited by the viewer.
His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Storm King Art Center in the USA, as well as numerous other public and private collections around the world.