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Chris Hedrick's work in sculpture ranges from realistically carved wood pieces to found object constructions... and everything in between.
For the wood pieces, everyday objects like tools, clothing, toys and guns are carved from a single block of wood at a natural scale to trick the viewer's mind. Textures and gestures conjure words like soft, limp, melting or stretched - words not associated with wood.
Hedrick doesn't confine his sculpture to carving. His other 3-D pieces are created from combining found objects - sticks, doll parts, boxes - into human-like figures.
Linden - 19” x 7” x 3”
Alaskan Yellow Cedar - 20” x 16” x 3”
Alaskan Yellow Cedar - 21” x 12” x 2”
Linden, nails, bailing wire - 11” x 19” x 3”
Linden, nails - 14” x 17” x 3”
Linden, nails - 14” x 20” x 3”
Alaskan Yellow Cedar, carved at actual size.
LInden - 7” x 13” x 3”
Alaskan Yellow Cedar - 8” x 14” x 2”
Carved from one piece of spalted, wormy Linden (6.5" x 6.5" x 5") There is color shift in this wood.
Linden with nail (20" x 6" x 2")
Linden, 33" x 36" - the actual size of a pile of 23 work gloves. A very ambitious piece.
Linden - 46” x 16” x 4” [sold]
Reclaimed redwood (12" x 16" x 10")
Alaskan Yellow Cedar, 21" x 14"
Linden, 16 x 8 x 3 [SOLD]
Block of Linden with nails
Carved from a single block of Linden with nails
Carved from a single block of Linden with nails
Alaskan Yellow Cedar and jute rope
Linden and Walnut [sold]
Linden & nails, 21 x 13 x 3 [sold]
Alaskan Yellow Cedar, 12 x 6 x 4 [sold]
Alaskan Yellow Cedar, 24 x 20 x 4 [SOLD]
Alaskan Yellow Cedar, 38 x 11 x 4 [SOLD]
Linden, 12 x 24 x 3 [SOLD]
Alaskan Yellow Cedar & nail, 32 x 14 x 4 (the title is a nod to the book "Toil" by Jody Procter)
Alaskan Yellow Cedar, 30 x 16 x 4 [SOLD]
Linden, 20 x 9 x 3
Linden, 16 x 8 x 3 [SOLD]
Alaskan Yellow Cedar, 18 x 8 x 3 [sold]
Alaskan Yellow Cedar, 24 x 17 x 4
Linden, 6 x 8 x 2 [sold]
Alaskan Yellow Cedar, 20 x 12 x 4
Parfleche are Native American rawhide carrying cases that are decorated with incising and paint. Hedrick's pieces are essentially wooden portraits of actual pieces. Even the ties are carved out of wood.
Poplar and hedge clippers, 24" x 16" x 3"
Poplar, 28" x 6" x 4" [sold]
Linden, 20" x 10" x 3"
Yellow Heart, Walnut, Ebony, Maple, Padauk, Pink Ivory and Mahogany - all natural colors, 22" x 12" x 12" [sold]
Quilted Maple and Padauk, 11" x 5" x 6"
Walnut, Paduak, Purple Heart, Maple and Red Oak, 10" x 8" x 6" [sold]
Osage Orange, Ebony, Walnut and Zebrawood, 10" x 10" x 4"
Mahogany, Yellow Heart and Ebony, 12" x 9" x 4" [sold]
Curly Maple, Yellow Heart and Ebony, the sprinkler head spins, 18" x 12" x 6"
Osage Orange, Ebony and Cherry, 14" x 16" x 3"
Walnut, Quilted Maple, Mesquite, Mahogany, Yellow Heart and Oak, 22" x 12" x 8" [sold]
Walnut, Oak, Purple Heart and Canarywood, 16" x 20" x 8"
Storm debris and bottle caps from a beach parking lot, 26" x 14" x 14"
Antique santos head and hands, old box, 10" x 10" x 3" [sold]
Chris began his career in the corporate world as an illustrator and graphic designer.
While the wood carving has only come in the last few years, he has been painting for most of his life.
His early paintings are air-brushed realism, more recently he's been painting with oils. There are very clearly themes: cars, campers, beach, bananas, wagons, meat, fishing lures.
30” x 30” - oil on linen
30” x 30” - oil on linen
16” x 24” - oil on linen
18” x 24” - oil on linen
18” x 24” - oil on linen
24” x 18” - oil on linen
oil on canvas
[sold]
[sold]
Campground series
Campground series
Campground series
Campground series [sold]
Campground series
Campground series
Lure series
Lure series
Lure series [sold]
Lure series [sold]
so there was a fascination with meat...
[sold]
More photos - the artist at work, exhibitions and more just for fun.
sharing painting space with Pammy
January 2014, opening night - the worst weather day of the entire year! So we had another opening...
This show was beautiful!
Showing a series with rusty, found tool parts and wood sculpture in fanciful gestures and unlikely combinations.
peace.
Bug & Chris at the beach
... enormous show... 60+ pieces! Sculpture, painting, drawing...
Explaining a wall of wooden parfleche
Wall O' Dolls
Wall O' Meat
Ice cream cones... and more ice cream cones
Beautiful Santa Fe, NM - Susan Swift Gallery
Lovely show of parfleche pieces and high top moccasins - all carved from wood
Chris & Pam
this is history!
We loved our get away in beautiful Brenham, TX - but it is in the rearview window now.
![Lawn Chair over South Padre Island [sold]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fa01e8e4b0d9e8e271b8a8/1410628780730-YW5DUOJ9A7WFLKFQPVRG/ChairOverSouthPadre+copy.jpg)
![Jerry's Truck [sold]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fa01e8e4b0d9e8e271b8a8/1410627830227-H0IDXO0QVNHJMC2G9XT8/P08001Jerry.JPG)
![Lone Camper - Green Windows [sold]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53fa01e8e4b0d9e8e271b8a8/1410627870088-YK3JSYWJS7LADF9V85N0/P08023Lonecamper.JPG)
