Lobster Buoys

Item Description

"Bakongo Blowfish Buoy" - The buoy was inspired by the African masks and sculptures that I first saw at the flea market in Paris 30 years ago and have since seen many times in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The nail fetishes are used to influence the spirits and control others.  I played with the idea of making my own nail sculpture and the shape of the buoy inspired the idea of a sculpture as a buoy, as blow fish and as nail sculpture. 

ABOUT BJORN RUNQUIST

I have a BA from Colgate U. and upon completion of college I moved to London, England. After four years in London and receiving a Master's degree from Kings College, University, of London. I have been a teacher and artist for the past 35 years, dividing my time between Ct and Maine.  I am now a full time resident of Maine.  I have worked in a variety of medium and styles; landscapes, still lives, abstract, oil, mixed-media, pastel. I have work in the permanent collection of the Farnsworth Museum and have exhibited widely in galleries on the East Coast from Florida to Maine, including the Caldbeck in Rockland, the Connecticut Biennial at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, The Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport, and the Allan Stone Gallery in New York.  I am in many private and corporate collections and have a number of paintings in the State Department’s Arts in Embassies program which places art in U.S. Embassies around the world.   I am currently represented by Landing Gallery in Rockland, ME. and Horton Hayes in Charleston, SC.  I was featured in Maine Home & Design in April 2010 and listed as one of Maine’s 60 artists “to collect now, while you can”.  I was also featured again in Maine Home & Design in the August 2010 issue.

Please visit: www.bjornrunquist.com

Item Special Note

All finished buoy artwork and item gift certificates may be picked up at the Trekkers office on 41 Buttermilk Drive in Thomaston, Maine. Any gift certificates will be mailed to the winners at no charge.

If the winner is unable to pick up the buoy artwork, it will be shipped to them and they will be responsible for all shipping and handling fees, which will be in addition to the winning bid amount. Items will be shipped and billed at standard industry rates through The UPS Store in Rockland, Maine.

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