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Time Machine installed at Fuller Craft Museum
Craig Bloodgood has made a deserved reputation for himself as an inventive sculptor/constuctionist. His installation at the Newport Art
Museum maintains that reputation. Time Machine is a Rube Goldberg - style clock, which combines craftsmanship, cleverness, and
quirkiness in a hypnotic process that amusingly causes reflection on the concept of time and the measurement of it.
Bloodgood has crafted a wooden, clocklike contraption that resembles a guillotine. From it emerges a large ball that rolls along a track made
from copper pipes. The ball falls into a vertical conveyor, which interrupts its journey long enough to run the clock with precision as it
sends the ball back on track toward the clock. Once around and a minute elapses. While you're concentrating, the minute takes longer than
you might expect. With each passing turn you become more curious to see how the whole thing works, so you engage in a struggle with time,
asking it to speed up at one point, slow down at another.
Naturally, we do this all the time. In the end, Bloodgood's constructions resonate as whimsically serious or seriously whimsical. like
life.
John Pantalone - Art New England, Dec. 2002
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2004
Fuller Craft Museum - The Game Room
An interactive exhibition of my latest games, including Roofer Madness and Bababule, played in a pub style setting.
2002
Newport Art Museum - Gravity, Biscuits and Rolling Balls - The Inventions of Craig Bloodgood
2001
Fuller Craft Museum - Gravity, Biscuits and Rolling Balls - The Inventions of Craig Bloodgood
Interactive exhibition of games with a very large clock that keeps time by means of a rolling croquet ball.
Reviews and Periodicals
Boston Globe - August 25, 2004, Christine Temin
Art New England - Dec./Jan. 2002, Review by John Pantalone
American Craft Magazine - Gallery Section Aug./Sept. 2001 and Oct./Nov. 2004
Grants
2005
Duxbury Art Association Grant for Residency at Camp Wing/Crossroads for Kids.
2000
ART Fund Grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
Personal
Craig is Special Projects Curator on the staff of the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, Massachusetts. He oversees the Artist-in-Residence
program, the Solo Exhibition program, On Their Own, and a new curatorial program pairing artists called Complex Conversations.
Craig is webmaster for the ACM's website and has recently begun a new project, www.studiodoors.com - an online artist community. He spent
last summer as the Artist-in-Residence at the organic farm at Camp Wing/Crossroads for Kids, building a variety of gates, doorways and farm
structures with the campers, using found materials and ingenuity.
He lives in an old barn on the grounds of the Art Complex Museum with his wife Nancy and daughter Melissa (Hayley is at UMass) and his cat,
Lily.
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