"Father," sculpture by Ken Little
Local exhibit spotlights work of UTSA sculpture professor
(Aug. 1, 2003)--"Little Changes," an exhibit of work by UTSA sculpture professor Ken Little, is at the Southwest School of Art & Craft (SSAC) Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, Navarro Campus, through Sept. 7.
The exhibition is a survey of Little's work over a 30-year period, including a series of new works. Organized by SSAC, the exhibition will travel nationally.
In an excerpt from the catalog essay, Kathleen Whitney writes, "Ken Little belongs to a unique group of artists for whom technique, the means of constructing an artwork, is inseparable from the meaning of the work and crucial to it. He is the consummate sculptor, adept in a range of techniques from the most mundane and traditional to the high-tech and electronic. The careful consideration of every detail in his work reveals an intense involvement with materials and the problem-solving that accompanies the ambitious scale of his enterprise."
Little has maintained an interest in cross-disciplinary media for some 25 years. He was granted his second major fellowship from the Endowment for the Arts in 1988-89 in sculpture. His work has been published in Art in America, Art News, Art Space and numerous exhibition catalogues available through major museums.
A native Texan, Little resides in San Antonio where he founded the Rrose Amarillo studios and exhibition space. Before returning to Texas twelve years ago to teach sculpture at UTSA, he lived and worked in Florida, Montana, Oklahoma, California and New York.
He is a nationally recognized for his flamboyant sculptures of North American big game animals, usually mounted atop houses or automobiles, and made from boots, shoes, clothes and other found materials. He has exhibited nationally at many museums and galleries.
Little's work repeatedly explores the public and private dilemmas faced in the modern world. Often using the mask as his metaphor, he interprets it in the most elementary way as a covering for our faces. He also extends the definition of the mask to include our clothing, cars, homes, relationships and social institutions.
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