April 3, 2008
Free tickets available for artist’s lecture
Free tickets will be available beginning today for the lecture by artist Brian Tolle, set for 7 p.m. Thursday, April 10, at the Henry Gallery auditorium.
The New York based Tolle, who is best known for his city-block-sized Irish Hunger Memorial project in Battery Park City, has recently completed a monumental sculpture for the UW. Called Stronghold, the work is a 23-foot diameter effigy of the base of a massive old-growth tree, like the ones that may have been on the University’s campus before logging. Painstakingly built from 2×6 cedar lumber, the sculpture seems like a low-resolution digital image – very realistic from a distance and obviously constructed up close. It is located east of the Foege Building, and can be seen from Pacific Avenue.
The lecture is sponsored by the UW Public Art Commission, the Washington State Arts Commission, the UW School of Art, 4Culture, and the Henry Art Gallery. Tickets are available at the front desk of the Henry.
