“I believe that in all the work there is a freedom, a joy, and pleasure in the making, and it comes through,” Bernblum says. “It’s what makes all the work feel alive and visceral.”
One of his pieces in the show, titled “Stuck,” places two wooden tongue sculptures aside a long, white slab of plaster. One tongue floats above, curling toward the object, while the other pushes into the plaster, forging a shallow divot in the material. While the sexual nature of the piece may not be totally straightforward, it only takes a dash of imagination to understand how the work could go from an innocent, abstract sculpture to something a little more provocative.
