Dan Mandelbaum "cube study 1"

While in residing in Memphis, Dan Mandelbaum carved local limestone, evoking carving traditions from across worldwide cultures and time periods, as the artist looks to channel the universal human artistic impulse. The cube was discovered in antiquity, and associated with the nature of earth by Plato for whom the Platonic solids are named. In modern art history, one thinks to the minamalist forms of artists like Sol LeWitt. Mandelbaum’s cube is adorned with spirals and engravings that beg other associations with the natural world — beautiful, timeless gestures that were hard won by the labor intensive methods required to incise stone.