WPLN News Archive; Brad Sells (Todd Jarrell) 4 21 03; News Archive 4/1/03-7/1/03

silver maple gallery rises two stories above a quiet neighborhood street five blocks from couples town square a former welding shop its corrugated steel sheet signs with a sturdy industrial flair bret cells as artist in residence here along with his wife and two small children i have a fifteen second commute and snow prominent come up at lunchtime and save the children and a dysfunctional real well woodworking tools filled the ground floors shop below cells apartment in studio and swept sawdust rounds the sharp corners and the air is rich with the scent of human fear red cells that shapes roughed himself and define sculptures or i don't you know you don't buy art also bob boylan wrote the definitive book on wood works titled the fine art of wood he is also a bread sells art collector i would you know if

cell service is telling the truth and forth for the appalachian center for crest or your study requisites included pottery thrown on the wheel no non grata pool clay helped to make the vessel a funky which allied with it it really wasn't state at lyon personally close enough i can to stop a bear that would mean that sells desire to arrest motion starts with hardwood and hydraulic chainsaws it is work embodies supplements rarely seen and solid objects his art evokes the elemental earth's water wind and fire they loop and tunnel fall down and flour out one piece looks like a fine he crumpled cellist another ripple rimmed with a delicate cherry wood petals unfolds like a rose with an almost translucent lightness the crowed hardwood walls are fine sanded to quarter inch thickness while offend border of bark rams each piece what is remarkable to collector bob bowman is that these

graceful sculptures are ripe for a massive timbers i think the four thousand pounds of a word count through about them at twenty two or three pounds and the teeth and flowed almost six people not many people are actually end up with dr levy selected for the exclusive neiman marcus home gallery and collected by the likes of julio iglesias cells work commands heady attentions even the smithsonian institute has the cells the broad maple vessel rests in the permanent collection at the renwick gallery of american craft curator kenneth traps as it is slated for display within a year me fluidity of repeat the wooden a beautiful brain called the characteristic of the speaker would have added dimension and sells is all about dimensions selecting transporting and scaling old growth logs and relieving his sculptures of tons of unwanted wait for sells it is clearly something intimate as if

he were respectfully perusing each trees private diary a law of the colors and would love the element of time to have growth rings in there and you know you can you can see years of drought or failures of grain or you could tell the difference between a tree growing in a forest where tree grow in someone's front yard you know you can worker bees and bomber and our surmise how to finance you know you can leave the same cut from the bullet guantanamo tree left in and appease its living at age thirty three his career lies before him his work already sells from hundreds into the thousands of dollars off their and collector bubble and believes cells will be not only a successful but an important artist he predicts a prize for those who would seize cells would work as only simple craft though it back and better job years from now if they have an opportunity to buy a peach a regular you know they get

home they really should've done and nobody in the show i should have loved rare that i get a lot as the buzz around his word rowe red self in his noisily quietly continues to carve out his news in the world of art for national public radio i'm top general ms brennan yeah