The gracefully fluid forms of Curtis Archer are the subject of this year’s summer sculpture exhibition “Metal in Motion” at the Cedarburg Art Museum. This Wisconsin sculptor from Lake Geneva creates his impressive large-scale sculptures by cutting, forming and welding pieces of heavy gauge aluminum sheet into curvilinear forms and then combining these forms into one unified element.

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Archer’s sculptural pieces appear to represent a moment frozen in time. The individual elements in each sculpture seem to be in the process of coming together to create one unified form. The artist describes this as a convergence of elements that creates balance. Archer goes on to say that part of this balance is achieved by juxtaposing positive spaces, which are the individual elements that make up the sculpture, and negative spaces which are the empty spaces that are framed by the positive space. In essence, the sculptor’s positive and negative spaces create a symbolic relationship between the known and unknown in an effort to express a personal sense of spirituality.