The Sculpture of HD Ivey, What We've Lost in the Nuclear Age
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Channel: John Thornton · 2015 · Music
Two of my most talented friends, the artist Don Colley, and the photographer Stuart Rome, independently urged me to go to the Crane Arts building to film what Stuart called Philadelphia’s must see summer show. HD Ivey’s profoundly moving sculpture is at the same time funny and heart breaking. Combining a diversity of materials and techniques, he explores the costs that have accrued to us in the age of nuclear weapons. Ivey has been a political activist as well as an artist and worked on civil rights, gender equality and gay rights, and environmental issues. But nuclear weaponry has been the issue that has obsessed him most for half a century.
