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Wednesday, A p r il /, i n n vj/\rv. v d c a v c k . ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Photo by Peter C. McCusker Michael Young has donated one of his sculptures to the art auction this Saturday, which will raise money for the Oakville Art Society. Art is a visceral experience says Young By Carol Baldwin ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR Sculpture is a hard sell. But that didn't stop Michael Young from switching to sculpting from painting a few years ago, and he's enjoying every minute of his new career. However, the Oakville artist does admit that people will buy paintings more readily that they will a sculpture. But he doesn't buy the argument that there's always an empty wall for a painting but not always an empty surface on which to display a sculpture. "People will find a place for a piece of sculpture if they really like it," he says, adding that many pieces carved in marble or stone can decorate the garden if there really isn't any room in the house for them. Before Young took up sculpting for a liv­ ing, he was painting - a hobby that turned into a career when he took early retirement from his engineering job six years ago. Young also decided to go back to school, and he has only two academic credits left before graduating from the Ontario College of Art. "It's a challenge. You get to explore new media and new approaches...to play on the edges," says the 61-year-old art student. "I wanted to make sure I was getting the best education in my art and find the direction I wanted to take." One of Young's sculptures, titled Heavy Metal, is a metal sculpture that plays rock music with the flick of a switch. This, along with other contemporary works of art that he refers to as "abstract intellectual pieces, are perfect examples of how he "plays on the edges" with his art. But before he got into creating those modem "constructive" sculptures, he con­ centrated on "subtractive" work in stone, which were preceded by "additive" sculp­ tures in clay. And it was a Sheridan College instructor who got him hooked on sculpting again - he won a school prize for a sculpture he did in England as a teenager. "I've always had an ability to see in the round. I guess I'm a natural for sculpture," he says. "I work in clay, bronze and stone, but more stone that anything else... Stone is reasonably tough physical work, but it's sat­ isfying." But even before his clay sculptures, the Oakville artist had been painting sporadical­ ly. "I had started taking painting at the OAS (Oakville Art Society) while I was still working. My first (class) was with Joyce Kellock at the red house in Coronation Park (where the OAS held its functions in the 1960s and '70s)," he explains. Even then he was preparing for his retirement. It just came a littler earlier than he expected. And it was always portraits, and still life to a lesser degree, that Young painted, not land­ scapes. "I was a suburban kid and adult; and it doesn't really have a landscape. Hence my interest in landscape has been pretty sparse," he explains. "I'm a humanist. I'm interested in the human condition, and as such, one reflects one's interest in one's art.. .Artists really have to express what they know or what interests them - for some it is memory; for others it is the soil. For me it is people." Young has donated a sculpture to the OAS art auction which he hopes will garner on the auction block what it would in a pri- ' vate sale. (His sculptures range in price from $300 to $500.) But even more than that, he's hoping the person who buys his sculpture will enjoy it. "To hear someone say, 'I so love this piece. I look at it every day, and it gives me a lift' - it feels good that some people have found pieces of mine that do that for them," he says. "For me art is more of a visceral expe­ rience than an intellectual or spiritual one. You feel in your guts that this does some­ thing for you." Bid on a bargain for original art (C o n tin u e d fro m p a g e B 6) artists," said Peri Jolley, artistic director of the OAS. "People who come to art auctions want to be assured that the works they are bidding on are of the best qual­ ity. So it is essential for us to make sure that the artists represented have established themselves and are recog­ nized for their accomplishments in the world of art." This year the auction will be offering over 100 works of art in a variety of styles and media. Along with paintings in oil, acrylic and watercolours, there will be many fine pieces of pottery, ceramics and sculpture. Paintings will range from realism to abstract and from flowers to landscapes. Pottery will offer everything from functional to fanciful, while the sculptures promise to provide three-dimensional form in a variety of materials. There is also a silent auction, which will begin at the start of the preview showing tomorrow (Thurs­ day). "This could very well mean that you could pick up a great piece of art at a terrific price without even being at the auction on Saturday night," said Joe Smith, vice-president of events for the OAS. However, he warns, bidding continues right down to the slam of the auctioneer's gavel at the live auction. Proceeds from the auction provide the OAS with funds so its members can continue to offer reasonably priced art education programs to people of all ages. "We are one of the very few organizations that does not rely on any kind of financial support from the fed­ eral, provincial, or municipal levels of government. All our funding comes from the dedicated and hard work put in by our members," said Broten. "It also comes from the support of the many art patrons in our community," added Smith. "It is the people who come out and support our events who make it possible." Admission to the OAS art auction is free. 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