Dempsy Calhoun:
For more than 25 years Dempsy Calhoun has worked as a lecturer, art instructor, visiting artist, sculptor and artist-in-residence, as well as a curator & exhibitions designer in many states. He holds both a Bachelors and a Master’s Degree in sculpture & Design from East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. He served as Program Director for the Piedmont Craftsmen Inc. in Winston Salem and has exhibited in more than 100 galleries over the United States.
You may see some of his collections at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; the Fine Arts Academy, New Delhi, India; and the Thomas Graves Collection, Raleigh.
Sum of the Parts (1998) Dempsey Calhoun Painted Steel and Fiberglass Sponsored by Bob and Bonnie Meeker
Made up of a series of 20 three-foot-square metal blocks, this sculpture by Winston Salem NC artist Dempsey Calhoun is designed to represent nature’s delicate balance and the diversity of life on earth.
The cubes are fashioned to represent a stack of children’s alphabet blocks and have plant, animal, and environmental designs on the visible sides. At its highest point, the stack is four cubes high.
Two of the blocks sit askew from the rest, tilting precariously. They symbolize the uncertain future of many species of threatened and endangered wildlife. One block has fallen away completely; it sits alone to represent plant and animal species already lost to extinction.
Courtesy of:
Artist photos: The Winston Salem Journal
Zoo and animal: The North Carolina Zoo, Tamara Hill
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