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James R. Pyne grew up in Maine and New Jersey, and was educated in Massachusetts and Tennessee, later graduating from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pyne taught in the Philadelphia school system for fifteen years, then moved back to Maine in 1982.
Largely self-taught, “Riv” Pyne began working in found wood and now explores sculpture through a variety of media, including epoxies, plaster, casting stone, wood and bronze.
It could be said that Pyne’s work is an exploration of first impressions and lasting recollections. At the first sight of something unusual, our mind immediately gravitates to the extraordinary aspect of that thing. Much as memory or a first glimpse would, Riv’s work interprets animals into their most emphatic features. The essentials of a particular form, for instance, the neck of a giraffe or the massive shoulders of the buffalo are emphasized, almost caricaturized. Riv Pyne’s transfigured animals are suggestive, humorous, at times macabre and vaguely human in their gestural truths.
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