March 13, 2011 | Art | San Marino | By Lauren M. Whaley
John Frame’s characters are not meant to live under glass.
The Southern California artist has created a world from wooden and found objects that seem to whisper to audience members as they step into the darkened gallery. His show “Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame,” opened Saturday at the Huntington Museum, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
The Boone gallery displays more than 30 characters and dozens of other pieces of found and carved objects. Most characters have moveable hands, jaws, feet and eyes. They range in height from three inches to almost three feet. Individual figures seem alive under glass on pedestals and posed in a group on a theater stage. Frame also captures their movement in photographs and in a stop-motion animated film with an original music score. (continues at www.scpr.org)
