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United States
Sculpture, Ceramic on Ceramic
Size: 16 W x 24.3 H x 5 D in
Ships in a Crate
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One of my primary objectives in this ongoing body of work is to create a connection between the immediacy of drawing and the tactility of clay. Drawing has always played a central role in my creative practice and lies at the core of my sculptural work. I draw to discover new formal possibilities and make connections between shapes and ideas. That process, which is revealed in my drawings as layers of mark, gesture and erasure, translates well into the building of a piece of sculpture. The work is hand-built with clay coils, a slow process adding coil on coil, smoothing, shaping and adjusting the form with a wide variety of tools, each of which has its own characteristic marks. In this series I am exploring shapes and surfaces that address the mutability and vulnerability of the body. Many of the shapes that predominate in these wall pieces echo work on paper from much earlier in my career, collages built from layers of dress pattern pieces to create networks of lines and emerging shapes, like bodies flattened and stretched into maps.
Sculpture:Ceramic on Ceramic
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:16 W x 24.3 H x 5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a wooden crate for additional protection of heavy or oversized artworks. Crated works are subject to an $80 care and handling fee. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:United States.
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ARTIST STATEMENT: My objective is as an artist is to create a visual language about transformation that speaks to the viewer directly through the strength and presence of its form and structure. I work with a fundamentally abstract language that is deeply informed by biology and natural history. My current work examines on a very personal level the ways in which advances in science have radically altered our relationship to nature. The drawings conjoin disparate elements, biological, mechanical, and architectural, to create anomalous structures that could be imagined as the outcome of science gone awry. Word fragments that intrude upon the picture plane include both personal observations about gardening and the weather, as well as references to gene technologies that are dramatically transforming food production. PROCESS: Drawing has always played a central role in my creative process. It is as much an end in and of itself as a means for developing ideas for sculptural work. Early in my career I was strongly influenced by the abstract surrealists and expressionists, artists concerned with transformation and the imagination. I developed a process of abstracting from life and creating new, unexpected forms, a process that continues to drive my work. I draw to discover new formal possibilities and make unexpected connections between shapes and ideas. Although many of the forms I work with have their origins in nature and technology, I seek to move beyond the appearance of things, to expose their internal structure and spirit. BIO: Born in Boston, Massachusetts, I received a BA in Fine Arts from Brandeis University and MA/MFA degrees in Printmaking from the University of Iowa. From 1976-77 I taught drawing and design at the University of Tennessee, followed by seven years at the University of Virginia where I taught printmaking and drawing, before settling permanently in Brooklyn, NY. In 2007 I established a studio central NY and currently split my time between the country and the city. I have exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and have work in numerous private and public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the Library of Congress, and the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art. Residencies include the Cummington Community for the Arts and the Roswell Artist in Residence program in New Mexico.
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