ERIC BOYER

The first thing Eric Boyer noticed about wire mesh was its tactile approachability. He had ready access to the material in the blacksmith shop he was employed in. The mesh panels of the fireplace screens needed lumps and bumps taken out, but Eric soon rebelled and began to have much more fun putting the lumps and bumps in. 

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Initially limiting Eric's expression to the human form in high relief, he discovered new horizons of possibility when he experimented with sculpting in the round. Here, the transparency of the material discouraged representational detail, instead rewarded simplicity of form. Suddenly Eric had a medium that spoke its own language; sculptures that show off what they are made of, the mesh itself being the end more than the means. 

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