Gerald Peters Gallery Contemporary

The magical combination of the aesthetics and the engineering reflect the duality of Will Clift’s training and interests. Clift spent his undergraduate and graduate years at Stanford in multi-disciplinary studies incorporating Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, Symbolic Systems and Psychology. The recent returning to his native Santa Fe, has added that ingredient of tranquility to his work while his endless quest for new materials, his ventures into larger structures incorporating more complex forms infuses his sculpture with continued new dynamics.


							

									Will Clift									Murmuration #1 2019									Carbon fiber composite, steel, silicon carbide coating <br />
52 x 38 x 15 inches <br />
Private Collection<br />

Will Clift

Murmuration #1 2019
Carbon fiber composite, steel, silicon carbide coating
52 x 38 x 15 inches
Private Collection

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									Will Clift									Three Simple Curves 2015									carbon fiber composite, steel, high density polyurethane,  metallic automotive finish<br />
84 x 58 x 5 inches <br />

Will Clift

Three Simple Curves 2015
carbon fiber composite, steel, high density polyurethane, metallic automotive finish
84 x 58 x 5 inches

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In looking at any Clift sculpture, one immediately perceives the artist’s identification with, as well as his evolution from, two great 20th-century American artists. Alexander Calder and George Rickey were both similarly trained in physics and engineering and both have long been recognized as masters of sculptural innovation in their use of materials, their revolutionary conceptualizations of space and movement, and their lyrical aesthetic. Similar to these artistic predecessors, Clift is always searching for unconventional materials, using carbon fiber composites, as well as pigments and alloys developed for aerospace construction and automotive industries that enable him to fabricate his 21st-century designs


							

									Will Clift									Three Curving Back Over Each Other 2017									carbon fiber composite, steel, red automotive paint <br />
36 x 46 x 5 inches <br />
Private collection<br />

Will Clift

Three Curving Back Over Each Other 2017
carbon fiber composite, steel, red automotive paint
36 x 46 x 5 inches
Private collection

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									Will Clift									Nested 2018									corten steel<br />
120 x 90 x 30 inches<br />
Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL<br />

Will Clift

Nested 2018
corten steel
120 x 90 x 30 inches
Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center, Jacksonville, FL

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									Will Clift									Three Pieces Out and Up, a Trio 2014									24 x 132 x 6 inches (each)<br />
Waterfront Center, Hoboken, NJ <br />

Will Clift

Three Pieces Out and Up, a Trio 2014
24 x 132 x 6 inches (each)
Waterfront Center, Hoboken, NJ

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									Will Clift									Two Enclosing Forms 2020									ultra-high performance concrete<br />
125 x 92 x 35 inches (each)<br />
Hackensack, New Jersey

Will Clift

Two Enclosing Forms 2020
ultra-high performance concrete
125 x 92 x 35 inches (each)
Hackensack, New Jersey

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									Will Clift									Enclosing Form, Reaching Together 2016									corten steel<br />
76 x 82 x 8 inches<br />
Perth, Australia<br />
winner of the International Visiting Artist Prize, Sculpture By the Sea, Australia<br />

Will Clift

Enclosing Form, Reaching Together 2016
corten steel
76 x 82 x 8 inches
Perth, Australia
winner of the International Visiting Artist Prize, Sculpture By the Sea, Australia

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In my sculptures I explore the line between order and disorder, combining intersecting parts into a whole that stands in delicate equilibrium on a small foot. Each work is inherently precarious, yet ultimately poised and stable, overcoming entropy. I use this narrow point of balance to connect viewers to something beyond the sculptural object itself. In each static form is tension, the suggestion of gesture or movement, the ephemeral moment between breathing in and out. There's potency and power in equilibrium, as well as grace, when the point of balance is reached.

Will Clift


							

									Will Clift									Circling In 2013									Carbon fiber composite, steel, architectural paint <br />
102 x 84 x 6 inches <br />

Will Clift

Circling In 2013
Carbon fiber composite, steel, architectural paint
102 x 84 x 6 inches

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