Scoop
Scoop combines the incongruous. It balances formal elements — color, texture and form — with the objective reality of objects. It is about creation, transformation, flight and potential.
Beverly K. Brandt wrote in American Craft magazine (April–May 1992):
Robert Gehrke's Scoop and Brush explore both the surreal and the superreal. Assemblages of everyday elements cast in bronze, these bas-relief plaques willfully combine objects whose relationships defy logic: an ice cream scoop, a sheet of torn corrugated cardboard, a ball of yarn, a sliver of blue glass. The viewer alone must decipher the order occurring among the seemingly unrelated, while determining the dialogue in which these objects engage.
EXHIBITIONS
> 1990: Shatauporn Gulig & Robert Gehrke — Contemporary Jewelry & Cast Metal Sculpture, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
> 1991–1992: Copper III, Old Pueblo Museum, Tucson, Arizona
> 1997: Robert Gehrke & Sarah Tennessen, Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater Gallery, Menomonie, Wisconsin
> 2003: Time and Place, De Ricci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin
Scoop, 1990
bronze, glass
12" x 11" x 3"
9 lbs.
Beverly K. Brandt wrote in American Craft magazine (April–May 1992):
Robert Gehrke's Scoop and Brush explore both the surreal and the superreal. Assemblages of everyday elements cast in bronze, these bas-relief plaques willfully combine objects whose relationships defy logic: an ice cream scoop, a sheet of torn corrugated cardboard, a ball of yarn, a sliver of blue glass. The viewer alone must decipher the order occurring among the seemingly unrelated, while determining the dialogue in which these objects engage.
EXHIBITIONS
> 1990: Shatauporn Gulig & Robert Gehrke — Contemporary Jewelry & Cast Metal Sculpture, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library
> 1991–1992: Copper III, Old Pueblo Museum, Tucson, Arizona
> 1997: Robert Gehrke & Sarah Tennessen, Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater Gallery, Menomonie, Wisconsin
> 2003: Time and Place, De Ricci Gallery, Edgewood College, Madison, Wisconsin
Scoop, 1990
bronze, glass
12" x 11" x 3"
9 lbs.