LUXE
Winter 2008

Excerpt
Curt Brill’s sculptures reflect both his education (art and design studies at Cornell) and his experience (including his early years as a potter). But there’s something else evident in his work, too—something that doesn’t fit as neatly into a résumé. Call it intuition or spontaneity. Since his earliest days as an artist, Brill has been open to life’s possibilities. Indeed, it was precisely this openness that brought him from upstate New York to Tucson nearly 35 years ago. Upon graduation, Brill and a friend—both of whom were seeking a warmer climate—contacted an agency that moved cars cross-country. “There was a car going to Tucson,” recalls Brill, “and we took it.”