Sculpture

  • recent work (2020-on)
  • gallery views (2017)
  • small objects (2015-2017)
  • Glass/Wax (2014)
  • paper pulp & wire (2011-2013)
  • Cast (2003-2005)
  • Bound (1996-2003)
  • fluid events objects (1994)
  • vessel series (1988-1991)
  • Sculpture statement

My work revolves around questions of life and death and the fine line that separates
them. In recent sculpture I have been exploiting materials such as wire, paper, paper pulp, glass, and wax to create pieces whose presence is both tenuous and ephemeral as well as resilient. These are, to me, essential qualities of all life forms—the ability to be
permeated by experience, by natural forces, or by emotion, yet to insist on sustaining life.
Prior to this, plaster and hydrocal had been my primary materials for many years, starting
with the vessel series in 1988, leading to my installations of the ’90s (see Installation), and
the cast and bound series which followed. These works, which take visceral organic
shapes, suggest both the presence and absence of bodies. The later cast pieces refer to
garments, shrouds, skins, shells or carapace, and have an expansive nature. Bound pieces,
with mummified qualities, are tightly wrapped and contained. Associations to these
works range from human and animal viscera, to features of the earth, and speak of bodily
sensation, function, physical urgency.

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