Dream Forest Exhibit
By Becky Jane Newbold
Artist Alan LeQuire addressed the Columbia Arts Council, local dignitaries and members of the public at an artist reception March 20, 2015 at the Maury County Library, Columbia.
The Dream Forest by Nashville artist Alan LeQuire includes three plaster torso pieces placed inside the Maury County Library. Each weighs approximately 600 to 800 pounds and is carved like a tree featuring scripts and passages of LeQuire’s “dream thoughts,” edited by Nashville novelist, Madison Smartt Bell. LeQuire is known for his Athena Parthenos statue in the Parthenon at Nashville’s Centennial Park and the Musica sculpture near Music Row.
Becky J. Newbold
Becky J. Newbold
Downtown Columbia
Becky J. Newbold
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rtist Alan LeQuire attributes growing up on a farm, parents who let him “wander the woods” and “nightmares of oppressive malevolent sculptures” with the creativity from which he drew in designing The Dream Forest. Visions from his childhood returned in adulthood, without the malevolence, he explained to a gathering at the Maury County Library. In its place, dreams of loving, supportive figures led LeQuire to create representations of the forest ecosystem from his childhood. The Dream Forest inspired eight wooden boards created by Jim Sherraden of Hatch Show Print and a handmade book of poetry, edited by Madison Smartt Bell.
The Dream Forest exhibit, presented by the Columbia Arts Council, the Tennessee Arts Commission and private donations, may be viewed at the green across from the Maury County Library and inside the facility, 211 W 8th St, Columbia, through December 20, 2015. The outdoor exhibit is comprised of concrete sculptures that represent “reinterpretations of LeQuire’s dreamscapes” etched with poetry.
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