Recent Work: Mixed Media Sculpture

Artist Statement

While the pieces included in this collection are from different bodies of work, all of them are concerned with philosophical investigation: the process of defining and knowing, symbol systems and identity. My objective is to create conceptually and emotionally perplexing experiences.

Rock No.1 and Rock No.2 are recent examples from an ongoing series of sculptures that use seats (chairs, ottomans, and stools) as markers for taking a position. It is important to note that found rocks are higher in the stacks than are the cast concrete “stones.” The molds for the concrete castings were pulled from a piece of quarried granite. In Rock No.2, the stool cushion is wood (walnut) and the upholstered lounge chair is cold cast bronze.

Phone No.1, and Phone No.2 are concerned with being compelled to stop talking, to cease the endless dialogue (or running monologue), by necessity and to listen to something natural. The handset in Phone No.2 is resting on a piece of slate.

Tablet and Version X6PM42 and are sculptures from a series of text-based, conceptual artworks. Tablet is actually a photograph (exhibited as a giclee on canvas) of a concrete casting. The expression in braille is a question concerning the first dimension. Monk is a digital work derived from a photograph of a monk pouring sand from a mandala into a river.

Maxims of Sculpture explores the consequences of vanguard sculptural practice.