Found Object Figurative Sculptures
The impulse for this series came from visiting the Chinati Foundation in Marfa Texas many years ago. The art and artists whose work is shown at the Chinati Foundation are primarily conceptual. At the time of my visit there was an artist in residence (unfortunately I can not recall their name) who did an installation in one of the abandoned outbuildings on the property. It was all very mysterious and sparse... And I can barely recall very much about it, although it is stuck in my mind like a dream you forget upon waking... The one component I could not shake were these stacks of cement forms the shape and size of keg cups. Don't ask me why, but I just could not let those go... And so this series began, and continues still. All of the figures have a 'skirt' made of either cement or plaster with varying found object 'torsos', 'feet', 'bellies'
These are feminine forms. Some, or maybe all, of them are autobiographical.
The impulse for this series came from visiting the Chinati Foundation in Marfa Texas many years ago. The art and artists whose work is shown at the Chinati Foundation are primarily conceptual. At the time of my visit there was an artist in residence (unfortunately I can not recall their name) who did an installation in one of the abandoned outbuildings on the property. It was all very mysterious and sparse... And I can barely recall very much about it, although it is stuck in my mind like a dream you forget upon waking... The one component I could not shake were these stacks of cement forms the shape and size of keg cups. Don't ask me why, but I just could not let those go... And so this series began, and continues still. All of the figures have a 'skirt' made of either cement or plaster with varying found object 'torsos', 'feet', 'bellies'
These are feminine forms. Some, or maybe all, of them are autobiographical.