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Edward Cornell
Crooked Brook Studios, Wadhams, New York
Painter, Sculptor, Actor and Director
Interests: Whallonsburg Grange Hall, Wadhams Free Library, Depot Theatre
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At Crooked Brook Studios, junk acts as conduit
Posted Mar 2, 2016 at Crooked Brook Studios
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The Art Farm Outside Wadhams
Posted Mar 2, 2016 at Crooked Brook Studios
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Harvested metal, wire recall farm heritage
Posted Mar 1, 2016 at Crooked Brook Studios
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NEW WORK ON DISPLAY AT SPIRIT OF PLACE SHOW
Posted Aug 9, 2015 at Crooked Brook Studios
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My Work Is on Display in the Spirit of Place Exhibit
Posted Aug 5, 2015 at Crooked Brook Studios
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Credits
Persons & Businesses who have worked to make the Art Farm what it is: Noah Cornell Ray Matteau Tom Wright Jim Morse Jerry Pulsifer JMar Constrction Skip Smithson Scott Feeley Mike Feeley Feeley Well-Drilling Kyle Wrisley Haulin’ Junk Schelling McKInley Arna McKinley Richard Prime High Peaks Carpentry Paul Spooner Ideal... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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About the Art Farm
Crooked Brook Studios was first known as an art farm in connection with the Adirondack Harvest Festival’ Farm Tour in 2005. When the place was identified as an art farm, it got me thinking about these sculptures as if they were bio-organic eruptions, a conceit encouraged by their leisurely and... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#25: Stone Cone One
Stone Cone One, conical pile of stones. 6’ x 10’ in diameter. A pile of stones is the oldest and simplest made thing. It is a pre-tool object requiring only collecting, selecting and stacking, and yet it is capable of carrying out profound and useful functions as for example being... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#26: Floating Stone Cone
Floating Stone Cone, floating construction, 7’ above the water line, 10’ diameter; stones mounted on wire lath over a wooden frame on a raft of styrofoam blocks and metal brackets, anchored at the bottom of the pond, 2005 Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#25: Twistor
Twistor, free standing construction, silo parts and iron pipe, 8’ x 6’ x 7’, 2009 Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#24: Pond
Pond, a project carried out by the United States Department of the Interior as part of a Fish and Wildlife Restoration Project thanks to the intercession of the Boquet River Association in 1995. Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#23: Heron
Heron, found object, bent black iron pipe, 15’, mounted in an iron wheel submerged in the pond, gilded at the tip. 2007 Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#22: The Memory Tree
The Memory Tree, found object; 30’ x 3’ diameter at the ground, a culvert made of rolled iron, stood on end. It had, for whatever reason, been partially sliced open and then left to rust on the edge of a field. The filigree of rust has been gilded. A monument... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#21: The Angel of Inerrancy
The Angel of Inerrancy (conveying well-meaning souls to hell), free standing construction, 15’ x 22’ x 8’; large Iron culvert, horse-drawn tedder, wheelbarrow, milk can, black rubber hose, red iron silo pipes, blue glass circles, screens, sand, miscellaneous iron pipes and implements, crystal pitcher, two pumps, timers. When first constructed... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#20: Dump/Rake
Dump/Rake, farm machine, c.1920 Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#19: Good News Bad News
Good News Bad News, mounted relic of a house fire, minimally gilded, 10” x .5’ x .5’; the good news is nobody died. 2013 Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#18: Plowshare
Plowshare, 3’ x 5’ x 3’; an example of the basic tool which opened the continent to modern farming, this one probably dates from the nineteenth century. 2013 Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#17: Three Pipes
Three Pipes, found object, 12’ x 6’ overall diameter,water transmission pipes for the Wadhams dynamo. This piece is very much in the manner of Richard Serra, the contemporary American sculptor, employing the same materials and creating a related type of dramatic, folded space. 2006 Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#16: McCormick Deering Reaper Binder
McCormick Deering Reaper Binder, farm machine, c. 1930. This piece strongly calls to mind the surrealist paintings of Ives Tanguy, and it is a matter of amazement that it arose from and carried out difficult, practical work. Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#15: Mortgage Crisis
Mortgage Crisis, construction in place and fountain, 14’ x 8’ x 10’, television dish-antenna, disassembled hot tub parts; intended as a fanciful representation of the recent frustration of our American Dream of home ownership. 2013 Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#14: Boquet Bouquet
Boquet Bouquet, 7’ x 5’ x 6’, construction to be assembled around the cornhead to a forage harvester, or Chopper, and also including several red fire extinguishers, red plastic sled, a green compressed air tank, toilet parts, lampshade frame, mop handles, garden hose, blue plastic tarp, gallon jug, toys, and... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#13: Chariot
Chariot, free standing construction from welded farm machinery, 12’ x 6’ x 14’. Modified this season and will probably be renamed Applause. The name is merely a fanciful reaction to an abstraction based solely on balance and design. (under construction) Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#12: Fences
Fences, stacked bed frames, relics of a house fire, 8’ x ‘12’ x 6’, (under construction) Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#11: Old Boyhood
Old Boyhood, free standing construction, 17’ x 10’ x 12’, grain chute from a harvester, cart wheels, iron pipe, iron seed box, blue glass circle, broken mirror shards, sea shell, animal skull (fox?), ceramic doll, sand, rocks, volunteer plants, gilt. The piece gets its name from its apparently jaunty, if... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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#10: It SO Happens
It SO Happens, free standing construction, 22’ x 30’ diameter. This piece was originally made in 2004 but has changed and weathered over the years. It was conceived as a meditation on the virulence of life. I was for many years uncomfortable with the idea of multiple universes and a... Continue reading
Posted Jul 5, 2014 at Guide to the Objects
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