Daniel Biehl
Sculpture and Sculptural Furniture
Pictured here is a selection of images of wood and mixed media sculpture. Several of these pieces have associated images of their stages of manufacture, which can be viewed on the Process page. Slate carvings are grouped seperately on their own Slate Carvings page.
Canoe Party, 2007
wood and painted canvas
An Urban Art Project parking garage window installation in downtown Great Falls in the spring and summer of 2007, produced in collaboration with Julia M. Becker.
Fashion Statement, 2006
mixed media with missile silo gasket
This was another installation in one of the eleven display windows of the Great Falls Parking Garage structure in the spring and summer of 2006.
Bison Range , 2005
mixed media with walnut ink, willows, silk tissue and video
Another collaboration with Julia Becker, the impetus for this piece was the Spirit of Place invitational exhibition at Beall Park Art Center in Bozeman, Montana. The exhibit was composed of artist's interpretations and responses to the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition's passage through our area. Bison Range referred to the tens or hundreds of thousands of bison which L&C reported in the vicinity of Great Falls, the missile silos which dot the landscape, Air Force bases, automobiles, power lines, etc.
Emergency, 1994
slate, cotton cord, electric light
50 x 54 x 57"
Shown here in the Vessels, Vehicles and Dwellings exhibit
with Julia Becker at the Beall Park Art Center in Bozeman,
Montana in 1994, the title of this piece is meant to reflect
a place of emergence in addition to the conventional
sense of emergency. It was made after the birth and
subsequent complications experienced by my daughter.
Flying Boat, 1994
wood, raw deerhide and string
56 x 48 x 43"
Another piece from the Vessels, Vehicles and Dwellings exhibit, the Flying Boat gambles that an operator with limited mobility can move the two paddles, which are in the form of double-helical airfoils, to propel the craft airborn. The paddles are free to move in all directions because of wooden universal joints, which can be seen in some of the construction detail images on the Process page. As in most of my work, there are no metal fasteners in the structure.
The Traveling Sphinx, 1995
trailer parts, polystyrene foam,plywood, canvas
17 x 9 x 8'
I was priveleged to one of the fourteen members of the Caravan Project, or Montana Artists Caravan, in the summer of 1995. Together we traveled to seventeen rural communities all over the state in our mobile exhibition units. The Traveling Sphinx was a way of taking a sculpture to where the people are - out on the road. Check out other images on the Process page, and visit the Caravan Project website.
Boat of Bones, 1996
bronze,copper wire
29 x 8 x 5"
A few images of the spruing arrangement are available on the Process page.
Bureau No.1, 1997
We were having lots of trouble organizing our domestic junk mail. Our neighbor renovated his garage and put a bunch of old fir two by fours in the garbage, so I used them to make this device to help solve our problem.
Table for my Father, 1997
oak and slate
26 x 26 x 28"
This table was taking shape when I learned that my father had terminal cancer. I had previously noticed that it had a distinct funerary aspect. See some of the raw parts on the Process page.
Elaborate Receptacle, 1998
oak, plywood, purpleheart/ebony/birch inlays
43 x 27 x 34"
Collection of Rosalind HudgensInspired by the experience of building the Table for my Father and Bureau No.1, I absorbed myself in making the oak parts for this standing bureau, some of which may be viewed on the Process page.
Vessel for Small Dreams, 1990
ash, maple, string
70 x 20 x 13"
Nuclear Family, 1994
ash, walnut,pine
24 x 20 x 25"
Eula's Sled, 1992
ash, oak, maple
Collection of Central Montana Surgery Center
Valentine, 1989
pear wood with ivory and ebony eyes
18 x 8 x 3"
private collectionView detail images on the Process page.
Huntred, 1990
slate, antler, hair, cottonwood, leather thongs
Collection of Jo Anne Dillenberg
