Most of Robert Tully’s contemporary sculpture is designed for a specific landscape. His ideas come partly from the feel of the place and its shapes and surroundings. Although a focal point, the sculpture is meant to be seamless to its surroundings, often hard to tell where one ends and the other begins, so that the sculpture draws meaning, roots and potency from the landscape. Natural settings are seen as reconnecting. Materials are used for their voices. Stone is like an archeological, geological memory, a symbol of nature as human nature, and stainless steel is a technology we mix with nature. It is conceptual art with a place, in that the viewer can connect elements to realize the overall meaning.
He has completed 26 large public artworks and numerous private commissions. Among his local public works are a gateway sculpture to Colorado State University, a bus stop at 28th & Arapahoe in Boulder, six artworks along the St. Vrain Greenway in Longmont, a memorial bench landscape in North Boulder Park and a playground at the Children’s Museum in Denver.
Robert Tully
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email
robert@tullyartworks.com
website
www.tullyartworks.com
