Mel Kendrick: Core Samples

The ten featured sculptures in this lavishly illustrated book highlight sculptor Mel Kendrick's recent work, 1995–2001, revealing his long-standing preoccupation with process and his unerring sense of sculptural form. With systematic logic and a keen sense of his materials, Kendrick has created this new series he calls "core samples": wood sculptures that respond to the form, exterior textures, and growth patterns of the trees from which they originate. Katherine W. Hart's skillful essay on thes…