A collaborative presentation on the book, Darrell Petit In Stone, their work and their art. Please join us.
Thursday | April 10 | 7 pm
To register, call 203.488.8702.
About the book.
Darrell Petit In Stone is the extraordinary story of the sculptor’s journey from Providence lecture halls to professional hockey rinks around Europe and finally into the pit at of the Stony Creek Quarry where something was waiting for him; a calling to a life excavating massive pieces from the quarry wall, revealing their character and seeing them sited and celebrated internationally.
Sean Kernan has followed Petit’s work over the course of 15 years through all stages of its evolution, capturing the artist – in person and in practice – across multiple facets. More than a catalogue raisonné, the book chronicles deep time: ancient stone being quarried, hammered, burned, polished, and transmuted by this singular artist.
Sean Kernan is a photographer, writer, and teacher who came to photography from theater. He is the author of two monographs, The Secret Books (with Jorge Luis Borges) and Among Trees, with Anthony Doerr, a book on creativity called Looking Into the Light , andIn Stone, on the sculptor Darrell Petit.
He has exhibited at galleries and museums in France, Egypt, Mexico, South Korea, and Italy, as well as in the US, and has created media for performance pieces with Alison Chase at MASS MoCA, Guggenheim Projects in New York, and Portland Performing Arts Festival, most recently a theater/dance/multimedia piece, Drowned.
He has produced and directed several award-winning documentaries: The Kampala Boxing Club, about boxing in Africa; Crow Stories, about the Crow Tribe of Montana; A Mind of Winter, about the feeling of cold; and The Visitor, filmed in his grear-grandfather’s house in upstate New York.
Darrell Petit is a sculptor who has been working in quarries around the world for the past thirty years. Born in Montreal Canada, Petit received his BA Urban Studies from Brown University, later studying at the Hochschule der Kunstein Berlin, Germany and the Kyoto University of the Arts, in Japan. During this time, Darrell started to work with granite, a material through which he has explored a wide range of subjects and experiences. He is best known for creating large-scale, often monumental sculpture from granite elements, which he painstakingly quarries, cuts, carves and assembles into interdependently balanced situations often with precariousness and contingency.
