People-Nature-Art with sculptor and photographer Alex Turanski

Description

Alex Turanski began balancing stones (never in the national park!) in 2018 as a therapeutic practice. It was a way to exercise pure, raw focus and to dissolve his distractions. “The act of balance fully engages me in the raw present-moment,” he says. “In a way, I feel that I become as present and still as the stones I engage with. I often try to find the most difficult balance points as a way to push myself deeper into a meditative practice of mind-body coordination.” Alex is the People-Nature-Art featured artist for July. Join him at the Gilley on Tuesday, July 28 for an artist’s reception at 6pm followed at 7pm by a presentation and live demonstration of his work. Alex will start with an overview of the art form and its connection to nature for him. Then he will proceed to a live demonstration and create an original sculpture inside the Gilley. There is no fee to attend, but registration is requested to facilitate staging of this event. Sign up at www.wendellgilleymuseum.org/calendar. Alex’s finished sculptures are aesthetic art pieces that can be exhibited and photographed. His repertoire has grown to include live demonstrations and installations, designing and producing his signature Rock Stack Playing Cards, creating one-of-a-kind rock stack puzzle sets, and filming and editing balancing videos. He received the award for Best Set Design for the stonework he created and installed for the Isle Theatre Company's production of Do Not Move Stones, which also won the Broadway World 2021 Maine Awards for Best Production of the Year.