John Clement

Using enormous steel coils in intricately balanced patterns, sculptor John Clement works in the Minimalist tradition but bends it playfully into his monumental public works. The loops, like sections of distended springs laid on their side, are commonly painted in bright, vibrant colors: pink, cadmium yellow, fire engine red, among others. Walking through or around each form, the visual experience of outdoor space is reformed as the sculpture changes viewers’ perspective and physical position. Often, the ends of the sculptures’ various curves project upwards, a gesture Clement associates with hope and joyousness. Clement’s 2012 sculpture Milano subtly but effectively evokes the baroque filigrees and curves of the Italian Renaissance and voluptuousness of contemporary Milanese fashion.

Clement has exhibited his work widely in North America and East Asia and has made several large-scale commissions and public installations, including works for the cities of Long Beach, CA; Delray Beach, FL; and the Morris Museum of Art in Morristown, NJ.