Something larger than life and impossible to comprehend

Chaotic, sublime, "awesome" in the biblical sense

"The story's narrator, identified only as the "Time Traveler," creates a time machine made out of exotic metals and crystalline bars."

Born: May 23rd, 1941

Received B.A. in Fine Art from the Catholic University of America in 1963

Attended graduate school for sculpture at Yale

First exhibit: 1968

Puryear's style: modernist abstraction
Often associated with minimalism and formalist sculpture but Puryear rejects these categories
"His process can be described as reductive, seeking to bring work and material close to its original state and creating rationality in each work derived from the maker and act of making. This is what Puryear calls ″inevitability,″ or a ″fullness of being within limits″ that defines function." (Shearer)

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