We'll again be participating in the 3rd Annual Sweet Edge Sculpture Tour opening our studio and sculpture garden at Cedar Maze and featuring Steven's recent works in stone.

For studio locations and more info, go to:  Sweet Edge Sculpture Tour

Free Addmission to all studios.

October 13 and 14, 2012

The New Hope Area’s Only Sculpture Tour

Article by Gwen Shrift about fall show:  Intelligencer Newspaper article covering Sweet Edge Sculpture Tour, fall 2012, http://www.phillyburbs.com/entertainment/local_entertainment/sweet-spots-for-sculpture-on-annual-tour/article_026a3272-efcd-54de-b16d-898922d09c7e.html.

Third Annual Exhibition for Sweet Edge Sculpture Tour

In its third year, Sweet Edge Sculpture Tour, New Hope, Pennsylvania area's sole sculpture tour, takes place Saturday and Sunday, October 13 and 14 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine.  Admission is free. Six of the area’s finest sculptors open their studios and sculpture gardens to the public. All studios are five to fifteen minutes apart, and are located along some of the most scenic river drives and country roads in Bucks County.

The artists work in a variety of mediums: stone, steel and bronze. Each artist will talk about their work, sharing how materials of their choice are shaped into final sculptural form.

In 2010, compelled to create an opportunity for area sculptors to show their work and connect with the community, John McDevitt and Pinky Snyder co-founded Sweet Edge Sculpture Tour. McDevitt says, “three-dimensional art has a long history in Bucks County. Artists including Joe Davidson, George Nakashima, Harry Rosin and Charles Rudy were key in creating the foundation that anchors three-dimensional work in this area. Building on that foundation, our vision is to heighten public awareness of this age old art form and tradition in Bucks County, and to familiarize and connect the community with the sculptors who live and work here today.”

This year, George Anthonisen joins the tour as guest artist. Annual participants are Constance Bassett and David Cann of Moorland Studios, Raymond Mathis of Tutto Metal Design, John McDevitt of McDevitt Sculpture, and Steven Snyder of Cedar Maze Sculpture Garden and Studio.

Anthonisen says, “Tours such as this one offer a new adventure. I feel old and young at the same time. I am eager to get to my studio to work on what I am currently creating, but on the way, I see work that is forty-five years old." Anthonisen goes on to state, "My work is subjective and expressionistic. Without editing out good or bad, I attempt to bring out conflicting forces that exist within each subject, and let those forces interact. I resist the idea of romanticizing anything. I think making sculpture goes back to building a world of values. Within one piece, there is a structure of values; a body of work is a network of values. A work must be harmonious not just within itself, but also to a body of existing work."

Raymond Mathis states, "My focus is to share with the viewer my take on the human experience, through the visual aspects unique to iron." Mathis will demonstrate this centuries old practice and share his creative process to transform raw material into a piece of art that is both utilitarian and sculptural.

John McDevitt's work revolves around the constancy of change and the challenge of self- transformation. Says McDevitt, "Steel is my material of choice. I am not sure if I chose it, or it chose me. Cold, hard, static…but with the potential to warm, move and engage. Steel is not afraid of change. It is different at every moment. I am learning a lot from it." McDevitt states, "As I work, I am not forced to think about what words to use or what you might think about me. I allow myself to communicate with form, material, color and texture. Simplicity, tension, death, life."

In their barn gallery and sculpture garden, Constance Bassett and David Cann will exhibit sculptures made individually, and in collaboration with each other. Their differing perspectives share common ground in their combined interest in form, presentation, and the search for complimentary materials. Their attraction to metals and, more recently, other materials, such as clay, stone and wood, has opened the way to many new possibilities.

Bassett describes her work as, “representational and figurative.” Her subject matter has been the human form, including classical heads, and most recently, animal and bird forms. Cann's work is more objective and non-representational. Good craftsmanship is part of the focus of his work ethic. Cann's work with designers and architects has encouraged him to explore his own designs in contemporary furniture.

Steven Snyder uses the natural shapes, irregularities and textures found in indigenous Bucks County stone, in tandem with his own plan, to create pieces that are uniquely his own. Snyder says, “Like people who see shapes in clouds, I see objects in rock.” The natural world strongly influences Snyder’s work, as well as love of family and home, ranging from interpretations of human emotions and aspirations to reflections of fauna and flora.

Artwork will be available for purchase at all of the studios. To get a map or more information, please visit www.SweetEdgeSculpture.com or call 267-337-1818.

Additional Information:

Anthonisen's public works in permanent collections are considerably longer than the following: U.S. Capitol, Capitol Visitors Center, Washington, DC; World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; New York’s Carnegie Hall; Philadephia's Please Touch Museum, Woodmere Art Museum, Curtis Institute of Music; James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.; Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia; Center for Interfaith Relations, Louisville, Kentucky, and more than two dozen other sites.

http://www.ganthonisen.com

Moorland Studios' client work ranges from monument conservation work on many outdoor public and private sculptures, to The Statue of Liberty in 1983, The Statue of William Penn for Philadelphia's City Hall, as well as objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and many private collectors.

www.moorlandstudios.com

Working in a variety of materials such as steel, copper, bronze, stainless steel, stone, and hand-blown glass, Raymond Mathis collaborates not only with private clients but with interior designers, architects, landscape professionals, and public art committees. In addition to receiving several awards in juried exhibitions and for historic preservation, his work has been featured in House Beautiful, Philadelphia Magazine and many Bucks County regional publications. www.tuttometaldesign.com

John McDevitt has exhibited at a wide range of local venues, including Grounds for Sculpture Member Exhibition, Hamilton, NJ, 2 Person Show at Morpeth Contemporary in Hopewell, NJ, Sculpture New Hope in New Hope, PA, and a 2 Person Show at Aisling Group in Washington, DC. www.mcdevittsculpture.com

Steven Snyder’s work has been featured on HGTV’s “Our Place,” Country Living Magazine, as well as Bucks County regional publications. Public works are displayed in Buckingham and Doylestown, Pennsylvania, as well as The Children’s Hospital of New Jersey at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey. His work is also collected privately around the country. www.stonesculpture.net

New Hope Area--Announcing the 3rd Annual Sweet Edge Sculpture Tour to be held October 13, 14, 2012, rain or shine, free admission. It is the New Hope area’s only sculpture garden and studio tour. The name,  “Sweet Edge,”  was taken from a passage in Thoreau’s Walden about living as deliberately as nature and craving only reality.

Tour cofounders John McDevitt and Pinky Snyder share a passion for sculpture and connecting nationally and internationally known 3-D artists with the community. “We are fortunate to be in an area where so many high quality 3-D artists live and work. Creating an opportunity where great artists can connect with the community, in their intimate work spaces, was something we felt compelled to do. We hope to see you in our sculpture gardens and studios.

Artwork will be available for purchase at all of the studios. To get a map or more information, please visit www.SweetEdgeSculpture.com or call 267-337-1818.






 

15th Annual Spring Art Show at Cedar Maze

CHECK OUT OUR VIDEO OF STEVEN AT CEDAR MAZE

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Featuring recent works by Steven Snyder

Cedar Maze is the sculpture garden and studio of Steven Snyder. Utilizing found objects and rocks indigenous to Bucks County, these naturally formed materials, in tandem with Snyder’s plan, reveal pieces that are uniquely his own. Available are stone sculpture for indoors and out, fountains, bird baths, water tables and benches. Located two miles outside of Point Pleasant.
(Studio is also open daily, year round, by appointment. Call 610.294.9106)

May 11, 12, and 18, 19, 2013

Hours 11 to 6

Free Admission, Refreshments will be served

See "Directions" for specific directions,

Physical Address (approximately 10 miles north of New Hope):
Please note:  Use the Pipersville 18947 address for MAPQUEST or GPS Systems
Cedar Maze
252 Cafferty Road
Pipersville, PA 18947

Mailing Address:
Cedar Maze
P. O. Box 526
Point Pleasant, PA 18950

Phone:  610 294-9106


ABOUT THE ARTIST

STEVEN SNYDER--A resident of Bucks County since 1966, Steven Snyder has been sculpting stone since 1981. Self-taught, he entered stone sculpting through his work as a stone mason which began in 1976. Fascinated by early Pennsylvania stone architecture and the diversity of indigenous stone in Bucks County, and the tradition of stone carving and shaping in this region, he began exploring form and texture through simple carvings in native stone. In 1994 he traveled to Quitman, Mississippi, to do a reproduction of a classic Bucks County farm house which was featured in Fine Homebuilding, “Laying Up Stone Veneer,” November, 1994. In 1996, Country Living Magazine did a cover story on Snyder’s sculpture studio and home featuring his sculpture, studio and home (A Scuptor’s Sanctuary,” August 1996) and in 2001 HGTV’s “Our Place” showcased his work and home as well. Snyder’s public works in Bucks County, Pennsylvania include, “Look to the Future Through the Past,” in Doylestown at the corner of Broad and Court Streets, and “Cody” displayed at Buckingham Elementary School in Buckingham. His work is included in the permanent collection of The Children’s Hospital of New Jersey in Newark. and is also collected privately throughout the United States. Snyder’s home and studio are located at Cedar Maze, 252 Cafferty Road, Pipersville, Pennsylvania, 18947.