Wendy Klemperer
about
installations
individual sculptures
silhouettes
paintings and drawings
process
news
wrought taxonomies
there goes the neighborhood
silhouette herd
leaping sturgeon cuomo tz bridge
vins eagles
vins wild turkeys and other birds
missouri evolution
let the outside in
salvage what you can
great falls montana airport
predator prey constellation
shadow migrations
whitetail crossing
the ram
osprey landing
glimpse
lao hu
re-imagined
shadow migrations herd
the leopard
catattack
sparring stallions
river elk
circle of wolves
prey
lions at the gate
chain hounds
urban pastures
fallen horse
Commissioned by the Lay Sculpture Park and St Louis University, this group of sculptures explores the natural history of Missouri, presenting charismatic images of animals still widely present in the area. Surrounding these figures are silhouettes of extirpated and/or extinct specie: once abundant but now erased from the landscape. Fleeting shadows, these flat pieces imply the absence of extinct species from our contemporary environment. The work alludes to the plethora of life forms that evolved over millennia, whicht now disappear in the blink of an eye. A falling bison speaks to wanton destruction in the 19th century; A monumental elk celebrates the successful reintroduction of some extirpated species. The installation consists of about a dozen fully three dimensional sculptures and a dozen steel silhouettes.