Moving Past Paint in California Art

Last month I wrote about Storm King, the art center in the Hudson Valley in New York dedicated to outdoor sculpture. I loved it. I realized then that I hadn’t profiled a living, breathing, working sculptor, so today I’ll write about Alex Rasmussen, a Santa Barbara sculptor who works in aluminum.

Michelangelo, Bernini, Canova, and Rodin are famous, but sculpture is a special taste, since it’s heavy, takes space, and isn’t thought about in terms of a palette the way painting is. When I was in Santa Barbara a few weeks ago, I visited Rasmussen (b. 1964) in his studio. I’d seen photographs of his work at Lotusland, installed in one of its many fabulous gardens. It’s metal, but it looked like a waterfall from the sky.

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Brian T. Allen is National Review’s art critic.

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Last month I wrote about Storm King, the art center in the Hudson Valley in New York dedicated to outdoor sculpture. I loved it. I realized then that I hadn’t profiled a living, breathing, working sculptor, so today I’ll write about Alex Rasmussen, a Santa Barbara sculptor who works in aluminum.

Michelangelo, Bernini, Canova, and Rodin are famous, but sculpture is a special taste, since it’s heavy, takes space, and isn’t thought about in terms of a palette the way painting is. When I was in Santa Barbara a few weeks ago, I visited Rasmussen (b. 1964) in his studio. I’d seen photographs of his work at Lotusland, installed in one of its many fabulous gardens. It’s metal, but it looked like a waterfall from the sky.