Leroy Setziol / portland art museum

SEPT 5, 2015 – OCT 30, 2016

A composer in wood, Leroy Setziol created lyrical sculpture that honors the beauty of a material strongly identified with the Northwest. The black walnut, teak, fir, and other woods he employed enhanced his complex gridded compositions, bringing them to life. A self-taught, intuitive worker, Setziol visualized his complex carvings using the grid as an armature to frame imaginative shapes. Throughout his career, his sculpture ranged from intimate works to large-scale public commissions. The largest work on display is an elegant, teak, two-panel wall relief from 1991. Twenty-three works are on view, including free-standing sculpture, totems, and a variety of wall reliefs.


- bill 1-16-2017 5:40 pm

I love his work. The house I grew up in had a door carved by Leroy.


- steve 1-16-2017 6:23 pm [add a comment]





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