With metal scraps and the eye of a perfectionist, Polish born creator Stanley Szwarc crafted thousands of intricately embellished objects, no two ever alike
Stanley Szwarc created boxes, vases, crosses and other objects from cast-off stainless steel, decorating each with geometric accents of spotwelded quarter-inch dots, circles of bigger diameters, cylinders and squares, perforated strips, and a variety of other shapes. The intricate, layered ornamentation, born of his imagination, lends the items a sculptural quality and elevates them beyond their functional purpose.
Szwarc was prolific. From the late 1980s until his death in 2011 at the age of 82, he made thousands of pieces. He sold as much of them as the market would bear, never affiliating exclusively with a dealer, a practice that kept his art-world profile and his prices lower than they should have been. Affordable and beautiful, abundant and yet unique, his works can be found in homes all over Chicago.
box, c. 1992, stainless and plated steel, 10 x 9 x 3.5 in. / 25.5 x 23 x 9 cm
By WILLIAM SWISLOW
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