Bilhenry Walker began making art in 1968 in Pasadena California after graduation from Fuller Theological Seminary and moved to Milwaukee in 1972. While in Pasadena he worked at the Pasadena Art Museum and came under the influence of the new Art and Technology movement headed by Robert Irwin, James Turrell, Robert McCracken and DeWayne Valentine. Many of their experimental techniques found their way into his work including light as a plastic medium, surface polish, and polyester resin. When Walker moved to Milwaukee in 1972 he rented his first studio in the Beer Brewery in Cedarburg and has continued working as a sculptor to the present. He developed his artistic sensibility through building acrylic sculptures in the seventies, casting monumental polyester resin sculptures throughout the eighties, and fabricating aluminum monumental sculptures to the present.Walker's most recent series of sculptural maquettes has broken new ground by developing his concept under the heading of "Neo-futurism". This work is biomorphic and emphasizes torque and movement with futuristic lighting sequences. Walker lives and works in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and his work can be found in private and public collections around the country.
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