STANKIEWICZ, Richard

Stankiewicz is generally reputed to be the first sculptor to weld works together out of the lost junk of the industrial environment, preceding John Chamberlain's assemblies of wrecked automobiles by ten years. Through his use of industrial materials and techniques beginning in the mid- 1950s, Stankiewicz is a direct descendant of Alexander Calder and David Smith . But, unlike them both, he did not polish and refine the look of his metal forms. His rusted and ruined pieces...