Bond: Freestanding Sculptures

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SANFORD BOND FREESTANDING SCULPTURES

PAGE BOND GALLERY RICHMOND, VA 2322O P: (804) 359 3633 C: (804) 357 7169

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SANFORD BOND My career has focused on creating places by defining space with various materials and building methods.

Primarily as an architect, I create places for human use and habitation using a palette of different materials with a range of spatial definitions in order to define discreet regions of space accommodating various human endeavors. Every material possesses a set of characteristics rendering it different from any other and lending it to a particular building method. These innate qualities may be used to define unique and different places enabling a range of use and meaning, differing with the person and their unique set of experiences.

There are four families of spatial definition that are generated by different building methods: continuous surface, linear assemblage, planar assemblage and capsules. Each family has particular characteristics which are responses to the material, how it is made, what it will add up to, and how it goes together. A planar piece has a constant thickness that is not of usable depth and has a two- sided reference, that is, each side is a constant distance from the other and one always knows where the other side is located. Typically, it has a thin depth relative to its extent in the other dimensions limiting its size unless it is reinforced with another planar piece, a linear piece or a continuous surface.

I have chosen to work with planar assemblages in my sculpture using certain materials that lend themselves to this building method: wood, steel and acrylic. The sculpture is spatial exploration done in the abstract rather than focused on particular uses. As analogs to reality, they have no actual scale rather the viewer supplies his own perception of the reality within the piece. By intensifying definition, place is suggested subject to the experience of the viewer.

The titles suggest my perception of the piece and the idea that was my point of origin. At once they are cities of tall buildings, inhabited squares, plazas or verdant forests one might wonder through depending on one’s feeling at the time and limited only by the imagination.

The more recent work has explored color. Working with sheets of acrylic with characteristics of solid, translucency, transparency, light transmittance and color juxtapositions, I am working with the innate attributes of the material, combining planes of color into assemblages with sometimes surprising results.

Opposite Page Study for Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues, 2019 (p. 10 - 13) 4

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Blue Sentinel, 2020 Acrylic 18 x 18 x 89.5 inches $12,000 6

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(side angle) Blue Sentinel, 2020 Acrylic 18 x 18 x 89.5 inches $12,000 8

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Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues, 2019 Acrylic 16 x 36 x 48 inches $12,000 10

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(side angle) Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues, 2019 Acrylic 16 x 36 x 48 inches $12,000 12

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After The Oceans Rise, 2019 Acrylic 17 x 17 x 17.5 inches $3,500 14

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(side angle) After The Oceans Rise, 2019 Acrylic 17 x 17 x 17.5 inches $3,500 16

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Study for Damn Right I’ve Got The Blues, 2019 Acrylic 15 x 12 x 15.75 inches $2,000 18

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Arctic Study, 2018 Acrylic 6 x 6 x 16 inches $800 20

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Suburban Blues (Study), 2014 Acrylic and wood 24 x 8 x 8 inches $2800 22

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Urban Blues (Study), 2014 Acrylic and wood 24 x 8 x 8 inches Sold 24

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Eye Kandy (Study), 2016 Acrylic 17.5 x 6.5 x 4 inches Sold 26

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Eye Kandy, 2016 Acrylic and wood 74 x 16 x 18 inches Sold 28

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(Installlation Shot) Kind of Blue, 2013 Acrylic and wood 108 x 9 x 24 inches Sold 30

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SANFORD BOND Abbreviated CV Education 1966 Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, University of Virginia 1970 Master of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Exhibitions 2019 2016 2015 2010

PLANAR ASSEMBLAGES, FURNITURE AND OTHER WORKS, Branch Museum of Architecture and Design GLOW-GLIMMER-SPARKLE-SHINE, Page Bond Gallery PLASTIC, Group Exhibition, Page Bond Gallery BROADBAND 10 + 11 Page Bond Galley

Representative Architectural Projects Try-Me Art Facility, Richmond, Virginia American Civil War Museum, Richmond, Virginia Visual Arts Center, Richmond, Virginia Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, Virginia Corrugated Box Adaptive Re-use, Richmond Virginia YWCA Renovation and Restoration, Richmond, VA. Dominion Resources Trading Floor, Richmond, VA. Richmond Ballet and Center for Dance, Richmond, VA Maymont Nature and Visitor Center, Richmond, VA Collegiate Lower School Expansion, Richmond, VA, Richmond, VA Theatre IV, Renovation of Empire Theatre Complex, Richmond, VA Theatre IV Experimental Theatre, Richmond, VA Awards & Honors 2015 William C. Noland Medal, AIA Virginia, a Society of the American Institute of Architects 2014 Inducted into College of Fellow of the American Institute of Architects Governor’s Environmental Excellence Award 2012 Richmond AIA Honor Award, Try-Me, Richmond, VA 2011 ASID IDEA Award for Excellence in Interior Design, Richmond, VA AIA Richmond Honor Award, The Greater Richmond ARC, Richmond, VA 2010 AIA Richmond Merit Award, Gloucester, VA 2006 Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, James River Chapter, American Institute of Architects Design Awards for Excellence in Architecture, Virginia Society, American Institute of Architects 2004 Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, James River Chapter, American Institute of Architects 2001 Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, James River Chapter, American Institute of Architects Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, Virginia Society, American Institute of Architects 1998 Marcellus Wright, Jr. Award, James River Chapter, American Institute of Architects

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Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, James River Chapter, American Institute of Architects Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, James River Chapter, American Institute of Architects Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, Virginia Society, American Institute of Architects 1996 Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, James River Chapter, American Institute of Architects 1994 Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, Virginia Society, American Institute of Architects 1992 Distinguished Service Award, Virginia Society, American Institute of Architects 1988 Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, Virginia Society, American Institute of Architects 1997

1986 Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, James River Chapter, American Institute of Architects 1985 Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, Virginia Society, American Institute of Architects 1984 Design Award for Excellence in Architecture, James River Chapter, American Institute of Architects Select Public Collections Capitol One The University of Virginia Hospital Systems Federal Reserve Bank Professional & Civic Activities Board of Directors, Visual Art Center Board of Directors, Richmond Children’s Museum Board of Directors Theatre Virginia/Theatre IV, Inc. Board of Directors, Philadelphia Quarry Corporation Art and Architecture Review Board, State of Virginia, 2014-2018 Commission of Architectural Review, 2015Urban Design Committee, City of Richmond, 1982-1988 Planning Commission, City of Richmond, 1982-1988 President, James River Chapter, American Institute of Architects Chairman, Design Awards Committee, James River Chapter, American Institute of Architects Chairman, Editorial Committee, INFORM Magazine Board of Directors, Virginia Society American Institute of Architects Chairman, Communications Committee, Virginia Society American Institute of Architects Advisory Board, “Revitalization News”, VCU Dept. of Urban Studies Advisory Board, Richmond Children’s Museum Trustee, Virginia Foundation for Architecture Trustee, Historic Richmond Foundation Member, State Council of Higher Education SHEV Review Committee Leadership Metro Richmond, Class of 1986

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SANFORD BOND FREESTANDING SCULPTURES Catalog Design by Registrar Kirsten Hemrich

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Published 2022 Cover: Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues, 2019

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