Art Works Gallery hosts Jack Seibold exhibit
By Linda Kiley
Utah sculptor Jack Seibold will be featured in a solo show at Art Works Gallery in Cedar City. The opening reception takes place July 26, from 5 to 8 p.m. The exhibit, entitled “Metal, etc. etc. etc.,” will feature a selection of work constructed from reclaimed metal and burnished steel.
Seibold discovered his love for creating sculptures out of metal as a college student. With a welding torch as his primary tool, he combines high heat with pounding, bending, melting, cutting, and grinding in order to get just the right look. Using old scrap metal, he repurposes it into works of simple elegance; sometimes employing the use of wood and rock as alternative media. His pieces are existential in nature as he allows them to go wherever they lead him. He draws inspiration anywhere from the compositional elements of a photograph to a pile of paper; sometimes sketching out his ideas and other times allowing the piece to take whatever identity it emerges into. As he repurposes the metal, he puts a lot of himself into his work, making his pieces very personal and honest. Seibold’s work is unique in that it tells a story using material that already has a story of its own.
Art Works Gallery is a fine art and fine craft gallery located in Cedar City. The gallery represents local, regional, and national artists who create in a wide variety of media and styles. The gallery mission is to facilitate a culture that validates artists at all professional levels and cultivates the idea that “good” art is defined not always by formula but by the viewer’s emotional response.
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