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Robert Tully creates
public artworks, often in parks, plazas, and along trails. Materials are chosen to be site specific, often stone, metal, tile, brick, wood, glass, earth and plants.
He also accepts private commissions, designing works for specific spots. Occasionally, he produces individual pieces that can be seen under artworks available. |
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Phone: 720-771-8502
Email:
robert@tullyartworks.com
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Nature of the Work
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Most of Robert Tully's contemporary art is designed for specific locations. The idea comes 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. His work variously could be described as land art, art in nature, site-specific art, interactive art,
contemporary environmental art, landscape sculpture, public art and, at times, simply stone sculpture.
The artist endeavors to create lasting places of value and connection, building community and responding to the uniformity and transience of suburban culture. Thus, his work is distinct from that of other artists making temporary or purely
environmental artworks, although his too is about being at home in and through nature. 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.
People often can interact with the sculptures, actually becoming part of the art for other viewers. It is conceptual art with its own place, in that the viewer can connect elements to realize the overall meaning. The
contemporary public art requires imagination and discovery to view, so that the process of seeing the art is also one of connecting to the place. |
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