JEDD NOVATT
b. 1958, United StatesAmerican artist Jedd Novatt is a sculptor of international renown. Novatt plays with gravity, weight and balance piling open-space squares and overlapping unequal edges. Monumental sculptures pave international indoor and outdoor sites daringly entering in relation with space. Novatt seizes the raw qualities of materials, such as steel or bronze, to magnify their own notions of purity, power, permanence or stoicism. Instability and irregularity engagingly give rhythm to the cubic matrixes liberated from geometry as the latter is deconstructed, dislocated and emptied. The complexity of the structure defying physics and human apprehension sets new hypothesis in the history of abstract sculpture placing doubt in the centre of the artistic quest.
Born in France in 1958, Jedd Novatt graduated from Lacoste School of the Arts in France and from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. His exhibitions include Pérez Art Museum, Miami, USA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, USA; Brown Harts Garden, Westminster Council City of Sculpture Festival, London, UK; La Piscine, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Dilgent, Roubaix, France; Sotheby’s at Chatsworth, Chatsworth, UK; Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, USA. His work is part of many private and public international collections such as City of Bilbao, Spain; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA; Holding Capital Group, New York, USA; Melville Industrial Associates, Melville, USA; MIT-List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA; Oklahoma Heritage Center, Oklahoma City, USA; Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, USA.
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