Bryan Hunt

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Bryan Hunt is an American sculptor who was born in

Career overview

Hunt traveled to New York City and attended the

The City of

In 2006, the New York City Parks Department commissioned an artwork, Coenties Ship, for Lower Manhattan at the historic Coenties Slip. The 20-foot-high stainless steel and glass sculpture was awarded the New York City Design Excellence Award (2006). Hunt created and installed ten Waterfall sculptures on Park Avenue in New York City between 52nd and 57th Streets, in 2011, part of a changing public art outdoor exhibition. In 2014 Hunt was commissioned to create a sculpture, Axis Mundi, for the new One World Trade Center, New York.

Hunt's work is included in many distinguished private collections around the world.

He lives and works in Wainscott, New York, and also maintains a studio in New York City.

Early work

One of Hunt's first "translations of modern spatial concepts into sculptural form was Empire State Building with Hindenburg (1974), in which a facsimile of the ill-fated zeppelin is tethered to an eight-foot-high replica of the Empire State Building."^[2]

Recent work

Hunt's recent work includes Axis Mundi, 2014, installed in the 64th floor Sky Lobby, in the new One World Trade Center building in New York City.

ARTnews reports that "Bryan Hunt has since 1974 returned repeatedly to the 'airship' motif." The article continues, "This enterprising exhibition presented an opportunity to compare his variations on that motif and see where they fit in his highly prolific, wide-ranging career." The airships were constructed of silk paper over light spruce or balsa wood frames, then lacquered in various colors or covered in metal leaf. "Hunt has used the airship to explore a broad spectrum of references and meanings."^[3]

"A trio of tall, narrow sculptures study the way water flows, and eddies, and thickens around an obstacle or a curve. The large-scale pieces are called "Flumes", and, like Hunt's "Airships" series, they toy with volume and weight, the way basic elements—water, air—take up space and can be contained (or not)," ^[4] reported The New Yorker in a review of his solo exhibition at Danese Gallery in 2006.

Selected exhibitions

• Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, Bryan Hunt-Sculpture and Photographs, 2013 (+2007, 2000, 1996)
• Danese Gallery, New York, Bryan Hunt: Recalculating, 2012 (+2010)
• Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA, Bryan Hunt, 2011
• The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY, Bryan Hunt: Clay, 2011 (+2009)
• Crown Point Press, San Francisco, Bryan Hunt: A Survey, 1999
• Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Sculpture and Drawings, 1998
• Mary Boone Gallery, New York, Bryan Hunt: Sculptures, 1997
• Gagosian Gallery, New York, Crossing, Plunge, and Hoodoo, 1995
• Blum Helman Gallery, New York, Sculpture: Bryan Hunt, 1992

Selected public collections

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• The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
• American Embassy, Moscow, Russia
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• The Getty Museum
  , Los Angeles
• Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
• The High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
• Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
• Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
• Lannan Foundation, New York
• Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humiebaek, Denmark
• Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Mori Building, Tokyo, Japan
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Museum of Twentieth Century Art, Vienna, Austria
• The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
• Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  , New York
• The Peggy Guggenehim Collection, Venice, Italy
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Whitney Museum of American Art
  , New York
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Books

• Hunt, Bryan, Conversations with Nature, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1982
• Hunt, Bryan and Constance Lewallen, Monuments and Wonders 1974-79, Locks Art Publications, Philadelphia, PA, 2007

Awards

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• Grand Prize, International Arts Festival, Seoul, Korea, 1991.
• Art Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2007.

Publications

• Elderfield, John, Against the grain, contemporary art from the Edward R. Broida collection, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2006.
• Glenn, Constance W. and Jane K. Bledsoe, Bryan Hunt, a decade of drawings, Long Beach, CA, University Art Museum, California State University, 1983.
• Hunt, Bryan, Bryan Hunt, Falls and Figures, Ithaca, N.Y., Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1988.
• Hunt, Bryan, Bryan Hunt, Sculptures and Paintings, Philadelphia, PA, Locks Gallery, 1998.
• Scott, Sue A., Bryan Hunt, early work: sculpture and drawing, 1974-1980, Orlando, Fla., Orlando Museum of Art, 1991.
• Tuchman, Phyllis, Bryan Hunt, Twenty Years, Philadelphia, PA, Locks Gallery, 1995.
• Tuchman, Phyllis and Vincent Carnevale, Six in Bronze: Anthony Caro, Sandro Chia, Nancy Graves, Bryan Hunt, George Segal, Isaac Witkin, Williamstown, Mass., Williams College Museum of Art, 1983.

See also

• Arch Falls (1981), Houston, Texas

References