Artwork Details
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Date
- 1987
- Location
- Dimensions
- 38 x 17 1⁄2 x 44 in. (96.5 x 44.5 x 111.8 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of William Arnett
- Mediums Description
- galvanized iron, cotton, wood, wire, straw
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Figure
- Object — furniture — chair
- Object — other — container
- Object Number
- 1993.1.1
Artwork Description
Hawkins Bolden’s sculptures make a bold statement about confronting challenge with creativity. Human in scale, dotted with multiple “eyes,” raw, rusted, tattered, and soiled, they are both arresting and discomfiting.
Bolden was blinded in a childhood accident. He took to sculpting, creating a population of scarecrow-like sentinels to protect the family vegetable garden from the birds. He used cast-off forms salvaged from around the neighborhood—reinventing both the junked items and himself.