Meg Webster
Bronze Bowl, 1997
Cast bronze
24” x 48” x 48”
Student Union Collections of Contemporary Art, CU1997.8.1

Meg Webster, an American sculptor and conceptual artist, expresses her ecological concerns with minimalist vocabulary in Bronze Bowl. A "need to deal with our relationship to landscape" drives Webster to communicate her sense of environmental awareness. She emphasizes a theme of displacement, both displaying organic materials in pristine gallery spaces and repositioning traditional art forms in natural settings. By melding the minimal form of Bronze Bowl into a living landscape, she seeks to rejuvenate her art with natural energy. Webster attempts to combine the dynamic "native landscape" with communal usage and "the idea of art." Webster designed Bronze Bowl to interact with its environment, and to oxidize and evolve over time as a manufactured but living element of its landscape.

© Meg Webster