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On a green bluff high above the Pacific Ocean’s edge Camey McGilvray is chopping wood. In her dazzling white studio this pioneer of contemporary sculpture begins her daily chores in the service of her art: drawing, painting gluing, screwing, pounding, and, above all, cutting. She cuts with a skill saw, a jig saw, a band saw, a chop saw and a table saw. She skillfully wields the handsaws and carving tools passed on from her father and grandfather to create her unique abstract shapes. Even her large metal sculptures, cut using an industrial laser process, have McGilvray’s distinctive feel for reductive form.
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Whatever the subject Mcgilvray arrives at, it is the highly crafted formal integrity and playful visual poetry that unites and defines her sculpture. She always provides the viewer with the opportunity to experience a transformative moment as we go beyond the parts to see the whole. And if we go further we can see the confident hand and vision of a person dedicated to her work. As a measure of her commitment McGilvray keeps insisting that her artwork grows and evolves, injecting new ideas, techniques and materials all the time.
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-- Doug Meyer, artist, teacher
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