About the Item

"House Holes"

The ticky-tacky objects in the House Hole series are cast from models and molds of domestic architecture. Initial patterns are fabricated in wood or 3D printed, then molded in rubber. These positive and negative forms then become patterns themselves for cast metal or urethane foam, reversing each image in the finished object. Resembling an industrial die, "Die Cast Heritage No. 2" echos mass production and building booms that create suburbia.

The works in the "House Holes" series seem to exist as sculptural memories of childhood and play, backyards and basements, neighborhoods and cul-de-sacs.

3.5" x 7.5" x 3"

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About the Artist

James A. Wade, Jr., b.1971, in Columbus, Indiana. Wade studied art at the University of Kentucky and the University of Georgia, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1996. His sculptures, prints, and drawings have been included in more than 120 exhibitions across the United States as well as in England, Poland, Italy, and Bolivia. With a university teaching career that spanned 22 years, Wade continues to instruct courses and workshops in sculpture and foundry practices nationally and abroad. From 2006 to 2013, he taught cast iron workshops at the Ironbridge Open Air Museum of Steel Sculpture in Coalbrookdale, England, and at Sculpture Trails Outdoor Museum in Solsberry, Indiana. In 2011, the Bournville Village Trust commissioned Wade to create a public artwork. His cast iron sculpture 'Measures' was modeled and cast at the Museum of Steel Sculpture in Coalbrookdale. It was completed in 2012 and is sited in the square of Lightmoor Village, Shropshire. The National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, hosted a solo exhibition of his sculptures in 2017.

James Wade currently maintains a studio on his family's farm near Lexington, Kentucky.

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