Equation
1999
Bronze
Andrew Baxter
American, b. New York City, 1957
On loan from the artist
Baxter’s shield-like bronze piece called Equation sits propped on a tripod in the woods, as if the artist imagines the work as a bronze painting. Indeed, Baxter is known as a superb conservator able to create luminous patinas on old bronze sculpture. With Equation, he has “painted” his bronze with the loveliest brown and copper tones. Baxter is fascinated with the idea of infinity and imagines his work as a depiction of something at the microscopic level, a limitless world where time and space meld.