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to the Sculpture Garden!

"Insurgent"

The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of a Bruce Beasley sculpture for the Houston Memorial Sculpture Garden. “Insurgent” (50”X25”X18”), a 2001 sculpture, was donated to the center by the Green Family Trust. The bronze, abstract sculpture compliments the two-year-old sculpture garden, that includes work by Richard Mayer, David Muggett, Norman Lewis and Arthur Comings, among others.

Born in Los Angles in 1939, Bruce Beasley is recognized as one of the most noteworthy and innovative sculptors on the West Coast. He began his art studies at Dartmouth College before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley art department in 1959. His timing was excellent: Berkeley was the epicenter of a revival in sculpture in the late 1950s. Beasley was exposed to distinguished sculptors Sidney Gordin, Richard O’Hanlon and Peter Voulkos. Beasley joined Voulkos, and foundry man Donald Haskin to build the Garbanzo Works, a foundry in west Berkeley where they created major works in cast bronze and aluminum.