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Open Studios 2002 Artists:
Sculpture-Intense
David Carlin, Gerald Milazzo and Nick Lamb
971 Jackson Street
Benicia, CA
tel: 707-884-4650
fax: 707-884-4650

info@sculpture-intense.com
www.sculpture-intense.com

Sculpture-Intense presents three artists, David Carlin, Gerald Milazzo, and Nick Lamb working in a format of small original designs and exquisitely conveyed allegorical concepts rendered in fine hardwoods, fossil ivory and other exotic materials.
David Carlin
Artist's Statement:
 "It was a dark and stormy night in the fleeting hours of a young man's blind stumble through the post art school career decisions. Then by chance, confronted with the hitherto unseen small sculpture of the Japanese, a bonding flame was lit. So it came to pass in 1967. The works are part of a lineage defined by periods of changing style and subject. All the pieces adhere to a detailed, small, hard material, story telling format. Each is an original design and most are unique in subject. Today it continues unbroken, self supporting, respectably collected, museum exhibited and globally exposed. It is an art form about stories. It tells them, it creates them, it is spawned by them and it carries them into the future."

Gerald Milazzo
Artist's Statement:
Sculpture for the Hand is a contemporary school of sculpture with roots in the Japanese art form called netsuke. These small, highly detailed, intimate expressions of a story, concept and/or emotion are best appreciated when held. Form and texture take on new dimensions when the tactile sense is added to the visual experience. My first experience of this school of art was in 1984. A northern California gallery which exhibited my pottery and ceramic sculpture introduced me to David Carlin and his small sculpture. During the next several years my friendship with David grew and I acquired a small collection of Sculpture for the Hand. After much encouragement from David Carlin I finally tried my hand at carving in 1994. I was hooked. This challenging and rewarding medium of expression seems uniquely matched with my creative needs and abilities.

Nick Lamb
Artist Biography:
1965-68 Trained as a Graphic Designer at the Berkshire College of Art.

1973 Started carving part time.

1983 Carved my first netsuke, commissioned by a private collector.

1988 Carved approximately fifteen netsuke in the period between 1983 and 1988 which were all sold to private collectors in England, bar one which went to a Dutch collector.

1993 Exhibited at the Netsuke KenkyuFour netsuke and four ojime were selected for the "Treasured Miniatures" exhibition held at the British Museum and later at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where some other examples of my work were also shown in a supporting exhibition. The work is also included in the exhibition catalogue.

1995 Work included in an exhibition at the Salt and Tobacco Museum, Tokyo, the largest netsuke exhibition ever held.

1997 Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin.

1999 The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY.

1999 Exhibited at the International Netsuke Society Convention, Chicago, kai Convention, Chicago.