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Alan LeQuire

 

Athena Parthenos, 1990, The Parthenon, Nashville, TN Fiberglass-reinforced gypsum, 42 ft. high.

Nike Mask 11" x 9" x 3" - Bronze

Timothy Demontbrun. Private commission (1996) 8 feet tall bronze unveiled on the riverfront in Nashville, Tennessee

ALAN LEQUIRE is a sculptor who has become well-known in his native southeast for his public commissions and sensitive portraiture. LeQuire works in virtually all sculpture materials, both direct carving and casting in his own foundry. He has oompleted a number of architectural, collaborative and site-specific projects since he began accepting commissions back in 1981.

One of his most recent projects is a $2 million Renaissance-style fountain of bronze and stone to be sited at the traffic circle to be installed at the entrance to Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Spirit of Music will include dancing figures measuring twice life-size, and fountain jets spraying 50 feet in the air. Around the lip of the fountain there will be four clusters of sculpted, life-size figures representing classical, country, jazz and gospel music. "It's meant to be an exuberant, celebratory reminder of our greatest resources - water and human creativity through music," says LeQuire.

"Like the classical and Renaissance artists to whom he has directly apprenticed himself, Alan LeQuire believes that the human figure is the single artistic subject to which all viewers inevitably respond. Like his forebears he is specially concerned with the relation of humanity to the world it inhabits. For him, the world is meaningful, and the human figure serves as the primary carrier of meaning. Because of this inner quality as much as its outward appearance, his work is a radical departure from most contemporary art. Monumental, miniature, or life-size, Alan LeQuire's sculpture is on the human scale, a work made by and intended for human beings." -- Madison Smartt Bell

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