John Reeve's Sculpture

Paul Adams, PhD,
author of Textures of Place

John Reeves’ sculpture challenges both the modernist quest for rational purity and the postmodernist attitude of ironic disengagement. John’s sculpture is instead an expression of a pre-modern or anti-modern world view.

This approach refuses to reduce sculpture to either form or style, mathematics or aesthetics. Art is restored instead to its historical connection with metaphysical aims. John’s stones are meant as links to forces that are beyond the understanding of the rational mind, and are more than just “pretty” art.

In simple terms, the unknowable becomes a subject of contemplation as you move around John’s sculptures, discovering order in chaos, fluidity in solid matter, and a sense of movement in a stationary object.

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