Kate Hunt: Clearing



Jerome Foundation and R.C. Lilly Family Sculpture Commission for Emerging Artists



Kate Hunt is the first of three Minnesota artists commissioned to create a site-specific public artwork for the museum's sculpture plaza.

Using the language of the forest in the title of her work, Clearing, Hunt establishes a central metaphor for its meaning. For it is here, in the clearing of urban density, that visitors may pause, sit on benches, and rest on Hunt's sculptural assemblage. For Hunt, Clearing also suggests the act of making clear the special nature and particular history of the place. She has used granite to symbolize the large granite vein which runs underneath the site, steel to reflect the museum's west facade , and wood to reference the importance of logging in Minnesota's early history.

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