Bite

Bill Wareham
Bite, 1976
Steel
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of the Las Vegas Art Museum, 2021; Gift of Patrick Duffy and Wally Goodman, Goodman Duffy Collection, 2006.
2021.08.104

William Wareham has been working with recycled steel since the 1960s.
He is one of several twentieth-century American sculptors who began making abstract sculptures out of welded metal after widespread mass production created an abundance of scrap and industrial developments made welding technology widely accessible. Like so many other artists at the time, they were consciously reshaping art to suit the material aesthetics of the modern age. His purpose, he has said, is to bring “a great sense of visual delight to our lives" by creating objects with “dynamic relationships” between forms, “tension in the negative volumes” and “contrasting scale.” (DKS)