The Opening Reception is on Sunday, October 6, 1-4 p.m.
at 1717 Central Street, Evanston, IL 60201. 
The exhibition is open through November 3. 

 

The focus of this body of work is the combination of hand-sculpted objects referencing memories, molds taken from my environment (pieces of the building I work in, objects that are functional byproducts of my studio practice, things I discover in my travels), and the philosophical examination of the mold making & bronze casting process itself.  

Conventionally, in the molding and bronze casting of an object, the goal is to reproduce the thing exactly as it was in a new medium. However, the object is always transformed no matter how identical it may seem and great effort is made to conceal this fact. Over the last 20 years, I’ve been heavily invested in this effort. Through countless hours in the meditation of craft, I’ve come to value the forms derived from the functional aspects of process as much as the forms that are the original artistic intent.  

Somewhere along the way I began ask myself: why am I erasing evidence of my process? There is so much beauty and intrigue in the act of making. My practice now allows my process to speak truth and imbue my sculptures with an essential layer of narrative. I contemplate the inlets and venting directing the flow of molten metal to fill a void, these flow dynamics can speak toward the conceptual structure of an object as well as its physical shape. By leaving these systems intact and on display, the viewer is encouraged to imagine creation itself in conjunction with the original artifacts. By allowing the original concepts and materials to converse, ultimately they tell me something I did not know.