Paul Harris, Sculpture

Paul Harris decided to be a sculptor while a student at the University of New Mexico in 1948. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Tamarind artist-in-residence, and a Fulbright professor in Chile, where he was named Miembro Academico de Belles Artes of the Universidad Catolica. He lives and works in Bolinas, California.

This volume includes a selection of works made between 1949 and 1999. They can be divided loosely into three periods which intermingle and overlap. The first is highly experimental: works done in papier mache, plaster, and fabric. Concurrently, Harris made a series of male heads, cloned from one mold in vacuum formed plexiglas. The third and final period includes works made of wood or cast in bronze -- diverse in richness of ideas and pared down in form to absolute essentials.