Methods of Proceeding
Methods of Proceeding examines the practice of sculpture – Klimowicz’s sculptural practice mirrors many of the methods of the swimmer and the bee. The swimmer practices to place form into the core of their muscle memory—a place outside of thinking. The honeybee builds by a feel of rightness, knowing the size and the shape of the hexagonal space, the comb, and the room between these structures.
He writes: When you swim, you are between two opposing objectives: one, to hold onto the water and make it solid; two, to pass through the water as if it was gas. Navigating this duality requires the swimmer to get all of this form into the core of their muscles and out of their brain, as a hunny bee embodies form, creating structures not through thought but through instinct. At its best swimming and art making are like the bee building, an act of embodied form creation, not thinking.
Opening At the Geary gallery in Salisbury Ct
Saturday August 1st
4pm to 6pm
with a potluck to follow
Henry Klimowicz, ( b.1962 Milwaukee WI) based in Millerton NY.
He received his MFA from The Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 1990, his BFA from University of Wisconsin in 1984, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1984. Klimowicz was a grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation in 2012, and was awarded residencies at MacDowell (Peterborough, NH) Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY), Ucross Foundation (Clearmont, WY), Millay Arts, (Austerlitz, NY), The Vermont Studio Center, (Johnson, VT)
From 1991 to 1995 he worked as an art installer at the Guggenheim museum. From 1996 to 1998 he worked as a designer of CD-ROMs for girls about science. From 1999 to 2010 he was the office manager and medical biller for a private doctor in Millerton NY. From 2011 to 2012 he worked as a carpenter. From 2013 to 2024 he worked as a tile mason.
