Item:
"The Seeger Studio 1957–1962: Desert Modern in Scottsdale
Arizona"
Artist:
Dave Hampton (1965-)
Description:
The early career of Dick Seeger, influential artist, craftsman
and gallerist is re-examined fifty years later. Known for his innovative
approach to plastics as an art medium (often for architectural application),
Seeger became an important figure in Scottsdale’s mid-century
art and architecture community but until now his story has gone untold.
28 pages of vintage photographs and original documents provide a glimpse
of his work, his remarkable gallery and his associates, Paolo Soleri
and Lloyd Kiva New in particular. A sense of Scottsdale at the time
emerges, when young lions of desert modernism like Charles Loloma,
Ray Graves, Ben Goo, Kiva and Soleri first walked its streets. Dick
Seeger’s work in wood and plastic is featured and images of
his gallery reveal early ceramic objects by Paolo Soleri as well.
The first release
in a series of art investigations by Dave Hampton of ObjectsUSA.
