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Full Color. Brad Sells, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

By Gina Malone<\/p>\n

Brad Sells grew up in Tennessee and remembers summers spent with his grandparents. \u201cI loved the arduous work of farm life,\u201d he says, \u201cthe sweat and smells of summer, the soil, cow dung, my great-grandmother\u2019s flowers, rain, honeysuckle, tobacco, hay. I learned a work ethic and an appreciation of nature.\u201d Both would benefit him when he discovered a love for working with wood. \u201cI was exposed to wood on the farm,\u201d he says. \u201cI remember a barn loft with a handrail that was so smooth and beautiful, all from the human hands clutching it over decades of use.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mother’s Covenant. Brad Sells, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

While in college, Sells recognized a passion for environmentalism. \u201cIt has always bothered me that we do not take care of the world that gives us sustenance,\u201d he says. He graduated from Tennessee Technological University and studied clay and wood at the Appalachian Center for Craft. He got his start on the craft shows circuit, and worked his way up to the best shows in the country before focusing on gallery work after the 2008 recession.<\/p>\n

For more than ten years, he has worked with GreenWood Global. Founded by woodworkers in the 1970s, the non-profit educational organization trains Indigenous peoples around the world to become artisan woodworkers and to produce and market high-quality products from well-managed forests.<\/p>\n

To this end and for his own career, Sells has traveled the world. \u201cI have been to Africa and worked red ivory, leadwood, acacia, milkwood and a wood called white cat whiskers,\u201d he says. \u201cI have worked woods on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, and worked koa, milo, kou, longan, mango, macadamia and ohia. I went to Peru with GreenWood Global and worked woods like higuera, and taught the Yanesha\u2019 people chainsawing technique.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Big Peppermint. Brad Sells, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

Some of the salvaged wood he is sculpting and carving now has singular significance. \u201cWe have lost as much as 20 percent of the ancient monarch sequoia forest in the last several years due to climate change and forest mismanagement,\u201d Sells says. Reaching out to the US Forest Service, he was able to gain access to some of the monarch wood in the Giant Sequoia National Monument in California by agreeing to clear roadways in an area that had been devastated by the Castle Fire of 2020. Giant sequoias are the world\u2019s largest trees and the Monument, encompassing more than 300,000 acres, contains 33 giant sequoia groves managed by the Forest Service.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was haunting to see the destruction of those trees,\u201d Sells says. \u201cThe fire was so intense, burning through the thick bark of the sequoias and scorching the soil under them. These trees were thought to be fireproof until the 1980s.\u201d He calls it an honor to work with the trees.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the two trees we worked was 17 feet in diameter at the base and the top section that fell out was still over six feet in diameter,\u201d he says. \u201cThe tree was estimated to be 2,000 years old. It was amazing to see, and I hope we can work on a solution to save these ancient natural monuments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sells and a former assistant worked 14-hour days at two sites over the course of a week. \u201cWe rented a U-Haul truck and loaded about 20,000 pounds of wood up and came home absolutely exhausted,\u201d he says. On the day they left, they could see, on the horizon, the glow of fires that would burn another 100,000 acres, including the Ponderosa area in which they had been staying. Sells hopes to complete a documentary about his experience, using camera and drone footage from the trip.<\/p>\n

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Polynesian Ama. Brad Sells, artist<\/p><\/div>\n

While there, he toured Sequoia National Park, seeing many of the largest trees on the planet, including the \u201cabsolutely breathtaking\u201d General Sherman Tree, and became enamored of these giants. \u201cI could see their will to survive in a tough, arid environment,\u201d he says. \u201cI could see the scars from past fires, some dating back to before California was settled.\u201d Similar scars can be seen in the wood he brought back from the destroyed trees.<\/p>\n

Sells begins work on a piece of wood by making a few cuts with a chainsaw to explore the interior. \u201cI check for defects and voids, then acclimate and visualize a design,\u201d he says. \u201cI have to work with the material, and trees are incredibly different.\u201d Working with sequoia wood, for instance, wants a special touch. \u201cIt was necessary to adapt my process to work this wood to its true potential,\u201d he says. \u201cI leave the walls a little thicker and I like to sand blast the wood lightly after sanding it to showcase those tight centuries of growth rings.\u201d He thinks of form and balance as he works. \u201cI often think of them as landscapes with sedimentary layers,\u201d he says of his wood pieces. \u201cI like to use the natural edge of the tree to create movement and depth. I often see the sap wood of a piece as the \u2018atmosphere\u2019 and I will usually tint this area to be cooler in color.\u201d<\/p>\n

His work includes vessels, furniture and figurative sculptures, with representation in many national and regional museums and galleries including the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Art and Design and the Knoxville Museum of Art, and inclusion in private and corporate collections throughout the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough an arduous process of carving and refinement, Brad Sells\u2019 latest sequoia tree sculptures humbly capture the spirit of his 3,000-year-old source material,\u201d says Blue Spiral 1 assistant director Blair Guggenheim. \u201cWe are very excited to exhibit this uniquely limited collection.\u201d<\/p>\n

See Brad Sells\u2019 work in <\/em>Forest for the Trees: Peggy Root and Brad Sells, on display Friday, May 5, through June 28 at Blue Spiral 1. Learn more at BlueSpiral1.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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