Martin Puryear

Martin Puryear's work combines the artisanal craft of basket-weaving, structural elements, and found objects.  Most of his work is made from building materials like wood, copper, steel, tar, and wire-mesh. Puryear has a very bare-boned minimalist feel that comes from finding beauty in simplistic structures.  A lot of his pieces are quite large, so in their particular context create a very heavy presence.