Don Maynard

International Sculpture Center: Don Maynard: Through a Glass, Lightly

June 17, 2021 - Gil McElroy, International Sculpture Center

"It’s a discreet work, seemingly unassuming and visually undemanding of attention. It’s entitled Looks Like Rain, and it’s a work by Canadian sculptor Don Maynard. But appearances, as the cliché goes, are deceiving, for Maynard has wrought a work that is insistently experiential. Its title gives some inkling of things; overall, the angled setting of the rods is of course suggestive of a heavy rain falling.

"But that’s perceptually static, and this piece is anything but. Walking up and down along the extent of Looks Like Rain reveals its dynamic aesthetic core, born of simple physics and human perception. The varied angles of the leaning glass rods randomly catch the gallery lighting, refracting and reflecting it in disparate ways, and the experience is that of tiny bits of light in motion like tiny drops of rain in motion."

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From the Collection: Don Maynard

October 15, 2020 - R & F

"My intention is not to overwhelm the audience by dominating the space; I want to invite them in and envelop them. Larger works allow me to expand my creative thinking into areas of theatre and architecture, as well as create opportunities for collaborations with other artists involved in film, music, and movement. My initial vision for these collaborative works typically remains pretty constant. Their execution can be very involved and labour intensive, however my objective is to make them appear to be very easy - like watching a cloud go by."

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