Bruce Beasley

Bruce Beasley is a sculptor based in Oakland, California. Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue is director of the Bruce Beasley Foundation.Tom Moran is the exhibition curator and former Chief Curator at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey.Lawrence Wechsler is the author of more than twenty works of creative nonfiction.

• 6 Director’s Foreword7 Artist Acknowledgments8 In Retrospect: The Artist in His Own WordsBruce Beasley14 Bruce Beasley: Innovation and the Primacy of FormTom Moran24 Bruce Beasley: In Pursuit of FormMarlena Doktorczyk-Donohue30 But For Real: A Conversation with Bruce Beasleyon Art and Social ActivismLawrence Weschler38 Postscript: Tools, Techniques, and Mediaand Their Validity in CreativityBruce Beasley39 Sixty Year Retrospective119 Other Notable Works132 Sculptures in Response to the Virus142 Chronology161 Selected Collections, Exhibitions,Awards and Prizes, and Public Commissions170 Selected Bibliography174 Checklist176 Index179 About the Contributors180 About GFS