Langland at Fire Arts

Sculptor Tuck Langland, who has four public sculptures in Dowagiac, will exhibit his new figurative bronze sculptures at Fire Arts in downtown South Bend during January and February.
The show opens 5:30 to 9 p.m.  Jan. 6 at the First Friday event.
Tuck will give a gallery talk at the First Friday event on Feb. 3.
Fire Arts is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays, and noon to 9 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Fire Arts exhibition will include garden-size sculptures as well as smaller pieces for indoors.
One surprise will be color. Langland has been experimenting with the use of dyes with his patinas for the indoor pieces.
Langland’s public sculptures are found across the United States, from the Blaisdell Performing Arts Center in Honolulu to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum Collection in Washington.
He has made numerous signature sculptures for hospitals all over the country, including “New Life” at The Woman’s Hospital of Texas in Houston, “Circle of Life” in front of Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo, “My Brother and I” (portraits of the Mayo brothers) at the Mayo Clinic, and Circle of Care at the entrance to Hillman Cancer Center at the University of Pittsburgh are major artworks using multiple figures.
Most recently, he created “On With Life!” for the emergency entrance to Borgess-Lee Hospital in Dowagiac.
This year, four new Langland sculptures were installed within driving distance of his home in Granger. He created “James Oliver and His #40 Plow” for the new Oliver Memorial in South Bend, Solitude for Beckwith Park in downtown Dowagiac, a portrait bust of former chancellor Lester Wolfson at Indiana University South Bend and “Tethys, Goddess of the Sources of Fresh Water,” a fountain figure for Wellfield Gardens in Elkhart.
Other area sculptures by Langland are “Madeline Bertrand” in Potawatomi Park in Niles, “Educators” in Mishawaka, “Legacy” at the Goshen Public Library and the rock alignment and fountain sculptures, “Crossroads,” at Indiana University South Bend.

www.fireartsinc.com

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