"Ecstatic," a steel construction by Turry Lindstrom, is 21 inches high, 22 inches wide and 15 inches deep.The opening reception for "Fire and Steel: The Metal Sculpture of Turry Lindstrom" is scheduled for 5-10 p.m. Friday, June 6, at Graffiti, 505 Cherokee Blvd.
The exhibit, occupying the entire east gallery at Graffiti, will be Lindstrom's first one-man show in Chattanooga. In the remainder of the gallery will be new work by Graffiti resident artists Ellyn Bivin, Josiah Golson, David Jones, Renel Plouffe and Derek Williams. Also on hand for the first time will be the assemblage art of Ken Herrin, who moved to Chattanooga from Eugene, Ore., two years ago.
Lindstrom was one of five artists who received an Emerging Artist Scholarship at the 2014 4 Bridges Arts Festival in Chattanooga. He received a similar scholarship at this year's Magic City Art Festival in Birmingham, Ala.
Lindstrom's art often involves the use of heavy-gauge steel plates upon which he draws complex algorithms, cuts out the designs and heats them to the melting point.
"I use no measuring devices while forming the designs," he says in his biography. "I simply bend the steel until it 'feels right.'
"When I am working on a piece, I am thinking about the relative angles, the balance, complex symmetry, continuity and flow," says Lindstrom, who learned to weld at Chattanooga State Community College in 2007. "I look at my art from every angle, seeing that every perspective reveals something complete, something different."
Art critic Brian Sherwin, editor of The Art Edge, describes Lindstrom's metal art as "powerful primitive designs that are strengthened by a contemporary edge."
For more information, call 423-400-9797 or visit www.hillcityart.com.