Artist
Carl Dern
born Salt Lake City, UT 1936-died San Francisco, CA 2009
- Born
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Died
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Active in
- Fairfax, California, United States
- Nationalities
- American
- Biography
Carl Dern learned to use different media at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the University of California, Berkeley. He creates single sculptures and assemblages that offer a chair or a ladder as a stand-in for the human figure. Dern will take a chair, for example, which represents a human figure at rest, and transform it into a symbol of physical energy, of a human being moving through space. He wants his pieces to challenge our notions “of what a human form should look like.”