{"id":50677,"date":"2020-02-22T13:18:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T19:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=50677"},"modified":"2020-02-25T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T15:24:38","slug":"david-lecheminant-and-the-sacred-at-meyer-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/david-lecheminant-and-the-sacred-at-meyer-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"David LeCheminant and the Sacred at Meyer Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_50678\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beatrice_blue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50678\" class=\"wp-image-50678 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beatrice_blue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beatrice_blue.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beatrice_blue-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/beatrice_blue-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Beatrice Blue&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>At the top of the winter hill in the old mountain mining town made of buildings of warmed old wood and cold glass are wood sculptures and glass pieces created by David LeCheminant. Looking at his work upstairs in the Meyer Gallery, you feel you\u2019re in a snow globe in February in a snow globe town: many of these wood sculptures, composed of many, many slender slats of wood, can make you think of repurposed skis, seen distantly; his glass pieces, though they are not white, are alternately frosted and clear, like snow, and ice. But, as Robert Frost said, fire also would suffice. It\u2019s not just prosaic winter presented here; there\u2019s also the sacred<em>,<\/em> and preservation of the sacred<em>:<\/em> real womb-to-tomb stuff.<\/h4>\n<h4>The bursts of globular color here in LeCheminant\u2019s glass pieces \u2014 so inescapably womb-like, vases upside-down \u2014 are as richly colored as Egyptian royal robes: shades of gold, brown, blue, a blued green, rose \u2014 single, throbbing, light-charged hues. Each piece seems to contain and guard the sacred soul of one color. Snow and ice? Poor, fading relatives.<\/h4>\n<h4>When LeCheminant\u2019s glass pieces are symmetrically or regularly shaped or patterned, they\u2019re named as if machines (\u201cGear Ball,\u201d \u201cGold Machine,\u201d \u201cPink Machine\u201d) and they suggest the beauty of old transistor radios, or sci-fi womb-machines <em>a la<\/em> Huxley\u2019s <em>Brave New World,<\/em> or what made \u201cMew Two\u201d in <em>Pokemon.<\/em><\/h4>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-50677 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/david-lecheminant-and-the-sacred-at-meyer-gallery\/gearball\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/gearball-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-50684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/gearball-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/gearball-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/gearball-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-50684'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Gear Ball&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/david-lecheminant-and-the-sacred-at-meyer-gallery\/pink-machine\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pink-machine-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-50685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pink-machine-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pink-machine-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/pink-machine-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-50685'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Pink Machine&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/david-lecheminant-and-the-sacred-at-meyer-gallery\/gold-machine\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/gold-machine-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-50683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/gold-machine-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/gold-machine-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/gold-machine-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-50683'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Gold Machine&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>The glass pieces with the most undersea womb-magic are driftingly irregular (\u201cArges Brown,\u201d \u201cHomage to Ed,\u201d \u201cGreen Fizz\u201d \u2014LeCheminant is also title-talented), undersea-patterned, with moving-bubble ovoids and circlets of raised, clear, or frosty glass. They are translucent and transparent. Clear bits allow you to look through to the inside, then to outside, through their middles, and it feels like spying through secretive, colored diving helmets. Gazing at them or even around them, you almost sense underwater, wobbly hum around them, a soothing white noise, a pleasing remove from the normal world.<\/h4>\n<h4>LeCheminant\u2019s wood pieces \u201cRaina,\u201d \u201cBeatrice,\u201d \u201cBeatrice Blue\u201d and \u201cRegina\u201d have the enclosed, royal look of very carefully dressed women, or standing jewelry boxes, or sarcophagi; but they yell <em>metronome<\/em> too. You can almost hear demanding tick, imagine tensored, single spring of metal snapping left and right, and feel, amid a group of them, what a lone brother must feel like with several older sisters. One, \u201cBeatrice Blue,\u201d is queen, here, thanks to a slice of truly Egyptian blue paint running up and down the front of the sculpture, suggesting ceremonial garment firmly and formally, even permanently fastened.<\/h4>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-50677 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/david-lecheminant-and-the-sacred-at-meyer-gallery\/regina\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/regina-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-50682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/regina-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/regina-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/regina-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-50682'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Regina&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/david-lecheminant-and-the-sacred-at-meyer-gallery\/eli\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/eli-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-50681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/eli-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/eli-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/eli-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-50681'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Eli&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/david-lecheminant-and-the-sacred-at-meyer-gallery\/joa_bbg_1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/joa_bbg_1-290x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-2-50680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/joa_bbg_1-290x290.jpg 290w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/joa_bbg_1-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/joa_bbg_1-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-2-50680'>\n\t\t\t\t&#8220;Joan&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Many of the wood pieces evoke sky and clouds, implying maleness: as in \u201cMan Wearing Bow Tie,\u201d \u201cEveryman,\u201d \u201cEli,\u201d \u201cJet Stream,\u201d and the concave, chest-thrown-out \u201cSky Triumphant.\u201d These wood sculptures have slats forming ragged, tattered edges, like ties tied too often and gone to crazy fray. They lack the mystery or inviolable seclusion of the wood sculpture-collage pieces with female names, don\u2019t have the diadem tops the pieces named for females are topped with \u2014 eight-cluster toppings of triangles forming cunning, radiant diadem of crown, or perfect-fitted level-slab tops like those cunning, perfectly fitted tops of flat-topped metronome cases. The male-named pieces, and pieces with sky names, in comparison. even look like ready bundles of jumbled slats for fence-making or for firewood.<\/h4>\n<h4>Only one rough-topped piece has a feminine title: but it\u2019s \u201cJoan\u201d \u2014 and all plain dull brown wood, no other colors. Wood was Joan of Arc\u2019s doom, punishment for her powers of love and divination. Here, Joan and her pyre are joined, become one. Another piece, \u201cSpitfire,\u201d a rising piece of all red-colored wood by LeCheminant looks like a growing pile of red-hot flame, not the spirit of the British sports car or a woman who is a hot-tempered-temptress. Or is that because nearby is that plain-Jane brown wooden sculpture called Joan? Making this \u201cSpitfire\u201d LeCheminant\u2019s name for the spit-scorn envious and murderous fire which ended poor Joan of Arc.<\/h4>\n<h4>One piece by LeCheminant both encloses you and leads you to sky: \u201cWatching, Waiting\u201d looks like a boxy, beautiful, sturdy treehouse. Its architect has thought, it seems, of comfort. Horizontal slats on its sides look like slats for ventilation on warm days. But looking closely you see these slats are sealed perfectly to each other: there are no openings. Thicker, short, evenly spaced chunks of wood climb its sides, too: which must, you think, be for foothold; but no; you could only climb to a slightly slanted roof. There\u2019s no way in; it\u2019s completely enclosed. Mother and child reunion, tree turned to treehouse, \u201cWaiting, Watching\u201d is sealed, a container holding old dreams forever.<\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_50679\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/waiting_watching_1_bbg_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50679\" class=\"wp-image-50679 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/waiting_watching_1_bbg_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/waiting_watching_1_bbg_1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/waiting_watching_1_bbg_1-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/waiting_watching_1_bbg_1-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50679\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Watching, Waiting&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>David LeCheminant, <a href=\"http:\/\/meyergallery.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meyer Gallery<\/a>, Park City, Feb. 15 &#8211; Feb.23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the top of the winter hill in the old mountain mining town made of buildings of warmed old wood and cold glass are wood sculptures and glass pieces created by David LeCheminant. 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