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Beyond Geometry:
Peter Forakis' Sculpture at Quicksilver

The Quicksilver Mine Co. presents a rare exhibition of bold geometric metal sculpture by pioneering northern California artist Peter Forakis beginning March 31st.

Forakis, who studied at the California School of Fine Arts in the mid-1950's, simultaneously collaborated with other beat era artists and poets in establishing The Six Gallery in San Francisco, and later became a founding member of Park Place in New York City. Moving from an abstract approach to painting into sculpture in the 1960's, Forakis rediscovered the meaning of universal forms, and the fundamentals and mystery of geometry�the cube, tetrahedron, and the pyramid�bringing new definition to these forms, both inventive and poetic. Large installations, including the Atlanta Gateway in Georgia, the Hyper Qube in Denver, Colorado, and others in New York, Vermont, Oakland and Massachusetts are testimony in large scale to Forakis' abstraction and dissection of classic geometric forms, all solutions born without precedent.

In this Garden Exhibition at Quicksilver, Peter Forakis (now nearing 80 years old and living in Petaluma) presents smaller scale sculpture reflecting a lifetime of stretching form to the point of total distortion, surpassing the boundaries of classical geometry. Bright red Archimedes cubes, rich blue Mobius strip sculptures, orange and yellow triangles, all assembled to create a balance of oppositions and intersecting angles, and embodying through suggestion the solution to the conflict between gravity and weightlessness.

Beyond Geometry: Sculpture in the Garden by Peter Forakis continues at the Quicksilver Mine Co. through June 30th. An Artist Reception for Forakis will be held on Saturday April 14th from 3�5 p.m.

Exhibition curated by Debra Lehane

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