Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts is happy to announce that one of its regular artists, Nelson Bruns, is currently being featured in a show of work by Waynflete School alumni. The show includes metal sculptures and related pieces by Bruns, a 2006 Waynflete School graduate and native of southern Maine, now studying engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Mr. Bruns' work will surprise and delight the viewer with its inventiveness, humor, intelligence and craft. The works on display demonstrate the artist's technical proficiency with metals, his ability to combine found objects to make built collages, and his ability to make art objects which rely on the scientific principles of magnetism and electricity.

The overarching theme of the show is Bruns' intertwining of engineering principles with an aesthetic sensibility to create art. His work explores the mysteries of magnetism, gravity and sound waves, for example, allowing the viewer a sense of adventure and discovery. It is an invitation to stand along with the artist and wonder in a most engaging way, how do these invisible forces work? The show is a refreshing celebration of the physical world, and the forces that shape it.

In direct conversation, Bruns demonstrates great intellectual curiosity and a candid willingness to respond that he doesn't always know the answer to the questions he raises in his artwork. It is through that portal of exploration that we can see glimpses of an art that lets us see the world differently. That is where the show takes on energy. Some of the implications of the work are political, like the assemblage of bullets and money, over which is played the recording of a tedious Congressional debate. Some of the work has more the feel of a science experiment, like the feather paintings of sound waves. Other works are abstract compositions of interpenetrating forms in space made of metals. All are provocative visualizations of real ideas. If this work is a harbinger of things to come, pay attention now. We are seeing the formulating stages of a nova.

Images from the Waynflete School exhibition can be seen on the website of Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts, at www.afinething.com.

The show at Waynflete School will be on view until November 14th. Waynflete School is located at 360 Spring St, Portland, ME 04102.

Nelson Bruns shows and sells his work through Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts, 29 Forest Ave, Portland, ME. More information about the artist can be found on his website, www.nelsonbruns.com