KENT, Conn.—A pair of familiar faces returned to Kent on Thursday morning.
Joy Brown was spotted on Sept. 4, overseeing the delivery and installation of her large bronze sculpture “Two Together” in a courtyard at Kent Town Center, 25-27 N. Main St.
The sculpture of a stylized child and parent had been in Stamford since being moved from near the gazebo in the Kent Green shopping center about two years ago.
“We’re excited that it’s back in the center of town,” Brown said, noting she has been making the series of similar sculptures for the last 15 years.
Brown described her process for making the large bronze sculptures, starting with a small clay piece at her studio in Kent, which is fired in a 30-foot-long tunnel kiln. The small piece is shipped to China, where a form is built in plaster before being cut into pieces. The sculpture is then cast from that form and welded back together at a studio in Shanghai.
Brown then files out the holes for the eyes and mouths, finishing and fixing any imperfections. The large sculptures are shipped back to Kent, and installed in various locales.
More details of her process will be explained in the 1-hour long documentary “The Art of Joy Brown” by film-maker Eduardo Montes-Bradley. The movie will be shown as part of the Mystic Film Festival on October 4, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Mystic Luxury Cinemas, 27 Coogan Blvd. in Mystic, Conn.
Interested parties can also visit Brown’s Kent studio during the Clay Way Studio Tour, Oct. 18-19.
