Bill Mack is unquestionably the world’s pre-eminent relief sculptor alive today. Fully self-taught in his art, he combines low and high relief, incised lines, and elements in the full-round in sculpture works that are light enough to be hung on a wall, directly involving the viewer in a 3-dimensional experience, both textural and tactile, that is often startlingly real.

Mack holds exhibitions in galleries from New York City to Beverly Hills and from Tokyo to Frankfurt. His work is in the collections of 3 former US Presidents, numerous Hollywood actors, international business leaders and renowned art aficionados. His piece entitled "Lady" is part of the permanent collection of the Statue of Liberty National Monument on Liberty Island, and has a sculpture of basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar hanging in the NBA Hall of Fame.

Mack’s studio and gallery is located in Minneapolis inside a castle he has named “Camelot” which also houses his extensive and rare Hollywood memorabilia collection.

Mignon McLaughlin

Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 - December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.

Reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from THE SECOND NEUROTICS NOTEBOOK by Mignon McLaughlin. Copyright © 1966 by Mignon McLaughlin. All rights reserved.

The quote “In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything” is one of McLaughlin’s many aphorisms collated into her 1960’s Neurotic Notebook series. The full quote reads “In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”