Ten recent sculptures by New York artist Mel Kendrick will make their public debut at the Hood Museum of Art this winter. Kendrick's work reveals his longstanding preoccupation with process as well as 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. With this body of work, Kendrick comes closer to a dialogue with the original form of the medium in which he works than at any other point in his thirty-year career as an artist.

Mel Kendrick's work is included in many public collections across the nation, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

This exhibition is organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. Its presentation and the exhibition catalogue are generously supported by the Leon C. 1927, Charles L. 1955, and Andrew J. 1984 Greenebaum Fund and Remsen M. Kinne III, Class of 1952.