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10 WAKE FOREST MAGAZINE Sculptor
David Finn creates art where it’s least expected. Unititled Group of Figures, Pier 34, New York City, May 1983 By Tom Patterson n his work as an artist, David Finn has long sought ways to visually and conceptually engage people who don’t usually pay attention to art. Twenty years ago, when he was a struggling young sculptor living on New York’s Lower East Side, he tried to capture such viewers’ attention by creating life-size, humanly proportioned figures from the rubbish he found in abandoned storefronts and other derelict buildings. He finished these figures off with painted cardboard-box heads and arranged groups of them on-site in clear view of passersby. Today Finn is an associate professor of art and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow at Wake Forest, where he began teaching in 1987. In his latest effort to take his art beyond the galleries and museums where it has been shown internationally for two decades, he has joined forces with students to design and install artworks in public settings. In September, Finn and Steve Gurysh completed the first such project—a mixed-media sculpture titled “Lateral Thinking,” which they designed with Heather Hans. Located downtown in Winston Square Park, the five-by-fourteen-by-seven-foot piece combines a number of sculptural elements in a boldly varied color scheme with two chessboards and seating for four chess players. DECEMBER 2004 11
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