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Gerrit Van Ness | Keeping Clam, 2025
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Category:Art / Medium - Wood
Start Price:75.00 USD
Estimated At:NA
CURRENT BID
150.00USDby g******1+ applicable fees & taxes.
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2025 Jun 14 @ 13:30 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Gerrit Van Ness,Mount Vernon, Washington
Keeping Clam, 2025
maple, boxwood, acrylic
2.5 x 5.5 x 4 inches | 6.4 x 14 x 10.2 cm
I'm sure everyone has wondered where decorative seashells come from. I found the answer to be oversexed mother clams who raise their offspring for future martyrdom.
Born in 1944, I lived 30 miles outside of New York City through my high school years. Syracuse University provided my education in wood products engineering.
My love for constructing things began early in life, doing wood carving, pottery, working in house construction and wooden boat building from age seven or eight through High School. Home construction and design work also continued through college.
Art was a part of family life, with both parents being non-professional artists. A strong appreciation of art was also developed through frequent visits to the numerous Museums and galleries in New York City.
As an adult, I revisited my love of creating objects by building fine furniture, jewelry making and producing lathe-turned objects.
Skills developed over the years enable me to produce the mixed media art objects that I am noted for today. Most of my darker work is related to time spent in Special Forces in Vietnam. Drugs, politics, and pop culture are all targets for a lot of my work, and these subjects will undoubtedly provide plenty of subject matter well into the future. I am becoming increasingly more involved in contemporary realism with its different sets of challenges.
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