The sculptures of Chicago-based artist Richard Hunt are a form of improvisation, an unfolding dialogue, as the artist expresses, “between me, the technique, and the material.”

Developed intuitively, his works emerge from a shape visualized in his mind, cut into metal, and welded together in a process that can continue for many years. Inspired by the medium itself, he often reuses scraps and found metal and responds to the needs of the material in what he refers to as “an ongoing process of things getting built and grown.”