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L. Joel Sanderson
Quincy, MI
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29 Gay Ave SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
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L. Joel Sanderson
Artist bio: Joel Sanderson has been creating beauty with iron all his life.  Through a life-long fascination for the working of hot iron, he has developed unique methods of manipulation for this age-old medium.  Working in a facility equipped with belt driven machinery over a hundred years old, Joel has combined the most successful methods of the past with new inventive approaches for working iron, the most versatile of all material.
      Joel's career began when he was thirteen years old, when he overhauled his great grandfather's 19th century forge and first actively pursued his curiosity for hot metal.  Every free day, every available evening, Joel was found by the forge fire, heating iron, experimenting, learning.  Even during his college years, when he was briefly distracted by a teaching career, Joel spent all the time he could learning to form metal: metallurgy and jewelry in the classroom, weekends and vacation by the fire.
In 1993, Joel decided to abandon all other distraction
Artist statement: Forged iron is a material which has allowed mankind to achieve things otherwise unimaginable. It allows structural integrity in forms which otherwise would be impossible. Because of its superior strength and wonderful pliability, great mass can be held delicately yet firmly, powerfully with elegance. It allows visual movement in work which, in any other medium, would be stiff and dead.
About the work:
Title: Babylon

Art form: 3-D

Medium: Iron and Serpentine

Year created: 2007

Description of work: Babylon is an entry or hall table composed of forged iron and cut serpentine, a natural stone from India.

Work statement:
An object is made more apparent when we point to it. That is often what is occurring when a table's legs terminate at the top: they are pointing to the top, and by bringing such attention to it they are giving the top greater finality. In my sculptural tables, it is my intent to have the focus be on the form holding the top and not on the top which is held by the form.

Technical details:
Work width: 54 inches
Work height: 33 inches
Work depth: 16 inches
Required venue ceiling: 84 inches
Required venue door height: 70 inches
Required venue door width: 30 inches
Required wall linear footage: 62 ft.
Required venue square footage: 10 sq. ft.
Additional considerations:
Audio/video needed: No
Electrical needed: No
Lighting needed: No
Internet access needed: No
Ground floor access needed: No
Indoor space needed: Yes
Outdoor space needed: No

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