Guy artist who works with screws
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What happens when a blind man discovers his screw portrait with his hands?
“I kinda like the sound…” George Wurtzel says as he rubs his fingertips and hands over the portrait that artist Andrew Myershas fashioned of him before comically jesting a second later that: “But my nose isn’t that big!” If this reaction to a subject’s first viewing of their portrait sounds commonplace, rest assured, this encounter is anything but….
Andrew creates portraits unlike any other. After tightly nailing thousands of screws to a base in a relief pattern similar to that of a 3D raised relief map, he treats the heads of the screws as a canvas using oil paints in combination with the shadows created by the “hills and valleys” of the nail heads to map out his subject’s facial features.
Photo courtesy Cantor Fine Art.
About six years ago, while exhibiting his unique sculptural work of portraits, as well as other subjects at an art show, Andrew’s exhibit was visited by a blind man. Seeing the man’s enthusiastic reaction to not only being allowed, but actually encouraged, to touch his paintings and feel the subject matters depicted, gave Andrew an idea—wouldn’t it be amazing to give another blind person this tempor
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Many artists own succeeded finish off turning upcycled materials be wonderful stick down pieces.
Brian Hennesy (Booth 43), one enterprise the incline 177 artists at that year’s Artists Marketplace excite the Utah Arts Feast, finds mixture objects including screws, washers, nuts, captain bolts promote combines them into one of a kind mirror frames and guitars. A summit as convulsion as chief, Hennesy answered a loss of consciousness questions implant The Utah Review.
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Meet the Bolt People
Evergreen member, Steve Appel from Prescott, AZ shared his unique artform on this past Sunday's VTE (Virtual Travel Experience) via Zoom call.
About the artist
Steve Appel, a matter-of-fact kind of man, is happily turning the nuts and bolts of his former profession into a successful career. He makes his metal Bolt People® out of nuts, and bolts, ball bearings, and other metal fasteners.
He has over 200 varieties of metal figures doing all kinds of things; from work to recreation. The statues range from cowboys on horseback to hanging sculptures of sky divers, doctors practicing on patients to all kinds of sports figures, musicians, and more.
“There’s nothing I haven’t been able to figure out. Sometimes, I get all kinds of strange things. Recently, someone wanted a train engineer for a friend turning 50. Also, a wholesale customer who has a glass gallery wanted a figure blowing glass.”
The Bolt People
Steve makes bolt people. Yes, that's right. Fascinating little sculptures made of nuts and bolts and other found metal objects.
Steve constructs his metal creations from common nuts and bolts, utilizing metal and heat to create unique, one-of-a-kind free-standing sculptures.
From occupations to sports and recreation, BoltPeople are fun and crea