Wood Sculpture

Wood Sculpture was a natural progression from painting for artist Christopher Georgesco. The materials used for his painting stretcher bars in 1968 were recycled into a series of sculpture studies tittled "Balance Beams" in 1969. These were the first Modern Contemporary Sculptures the artist created. The next move were a group of pieces tittled "Wood and Canvas Series" 1970-1971 and were also recycled from materials used in his painting for stretcher bars. This series used the tension of the canvas stretched on wood jigs through vertical placed wood dowels to hold the works together. The next series of wood sculptures Georgesco did were made from larger dimensions of the same square lengths of wood, this time expanded from 2" x 2" to 4' x 4'. They were to be his first investigation of divisions of a rectangle, a kindred relative of the square, in 1973-1974. These 4' x 4" x 10' pieces of Douglas Fir were divided and split in various configurations which would become the core of the artist Vocabulary and were simply places on the floor. This was the beginning of the first body of work that was commercially recognized and were exhibited at Jack Glen Gallery in Corona Del Mar in 1973. One of these wood floor pieces would serve as part of the first mold for the next series of sculptures that would graduate into reinforced concrete sculptures from 1975-1978. The humble material wood once hidden behind the stretched canvas of this artists early paintings eventually became the beginning of sculptures that would step by step metamorphosis's into 10" Concrete and Steel columns and Tripods that would catapult the artist into the public eye. This is a excellent example how the artist evolves a natural progression, almost as if by magic.