Abstract sculptor Mel Kendrick works with a variety of woods found in nature and the lumber yard that he cuts up, pierces, gouges, re-works and evisceratesoften recombining pieces in new configurations that usually end up cast in bronze. The artist uses a related process of cutting and joining varied pieces of wood in the creation of wood block prints. Kendrick illustrated, with abstract wood block prints, "Kora in Hell", published in 1998 by Arion Press, a book reflecting poet William Carlos Williams' thoughts during the year 1917.

Kendrick, born in 1949, graduated in 1967 from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where he later sat on a committee advising on the selection of a new director of the Addison Gallery of American ...