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Voyaging: William Bennett And Elizabeth Schoyer, University Of Richmond Museums
Voyaging: William Bennett And Elizabeth Schoyer, University Of Richmond Museums
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Voyaging: William Bennett and Elizabeth Schoyer
February 14 to March 07, 1991
Marsh Art Gallery
Introduction
For both William Bennett, sculptor, and Elizabeth Schoyer, painter, art is a voyaging: invoking, acknowledging, celebrating the forces and mysteries of life's passages.
Bennett builds up, with stone, glass, copper, lights, and wood, exquisitely crafted monumental forms: The Voyage, The Boat over Ocean over Ocean, Stigmata, Bed of Dreams, Belly Scepter among them. The titles signal the theme of quest, while axial forms draw the viewing into ritual alignment. One come to Bed of Dreams as an altar; Stigmata, part anchor and part …