Aaron Spangler

Carving scenes from suburban and rural destruction zones in maple, the works reflect emptiness, war, or despair…

The Sniper’s Home 2004-2005 carved maple, black gesso, graphite

Saatchi Gallery…The Hideaway is a bas-relief – a complex, Romanesque technique that marries aspects of two-dimensional imagery with those of three-dimensional sculpture – in carved maple wood. A light wood, it is painted by the artist in black gesso and covered in graphite to give the finished work an appearance not dissimilar to Ghiberti’s Baptistry doors in Florence…

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