Helene Brandt (born 1936, Philadelphia, PA) works in New York, New York as a sculptor. She is the daughter of an inventor and sculptor.[1]
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Raised in a family of creativity, Helena always had a love for art, but it started with dance. She began sculpting when she was no longer fully satisfied by dance. Helena did not like how she could not look at what she was doing and that once the dance was over all that was left was the joy of doing it. She learned she could put more into sculpting and once she was finished her work still existed, this caused her to pursue in sculpting. She connects dancing with sculpting through visual and visceral ways.[2]
Helena uses steel tubing to sculpt her work, normally doing so around her body some being like a cage others more open. Helena is very fond of nature and spends a lot of time in the woods which is where most of her ideas come from. The form of branches, roots, and the tree its self greatly effect her on her work. Helena used to bend her tubes to make them smooth, now she heats them to give them kinks, twists, and turns for more effects like a tree. In 1974 she was given forty used bicycle parts which she created the two seated rocking drum in 1977 which is where two people sit back to back and rock as the play music on raw hid devices.[3]
Helena went to school at the Columbia school of Arts, beginning in 1973, and forever changing her view on art making. Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and did a good bit of studying in Japan[4]
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