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ARTIST STATEMENT
The focus of my work has been increasingly centered on studio process. I
can not apply wonder and mystery to a work like a coat of paint. Rather if I
work with wonder and mystery in the studio - with an inspired attention - then
often the works I create are imbued with these qualities. I seek paradoxically
to surprise myself when I work. I avoid over planning in favor of discovery. I
trust instinct, celebrate whim and discourage certainty. I bring to the studio my
own fascination with the "complex, dynamic cultural forces" and a trust that
these interests will emerge in the work without my forcing them. I go to the
studio to discover rather than to work out some pre-ordained plan. I endeavor
to create sculpture in which conceptual integrity and sculptural attributes are
intertwined, inseparable. I continue to work with human figure and a wide
range of materials and methods.
can not apply wonder and mystery to a work like a coat of paint. Rather if I
work with wonder and mystery in the studio - with an inspired attention - then
often the works I create are imbued with these qualities. I seek paradoxically
to surprise myself when I work. I avoid over planning in favor of discovery. I
trust instinct, celebrate whim and discourage certainty. I bring to the studio my
own fascination with the "complex, dynamic cultural forces" and a trust that
these interests will emerge in the work without my forcing them. I go to the
studio to discover rather than to work out some pre-ordained plan. I endeavor
to create sculpture in which conceptual integrity and sculptural attributes are
intertwined, inseparable. I continue to work with human figure and a wide
range of materials and methods.
MARC LANCET
beyond its formal boundaries to a larger world, to evoke in the viewer the
complex, dynamic cultural forces from which it has emerged and for which
it may be taken by a viewer to stand. By wonder I mean the power of the
displayed object to stop the viewer in his or her tracks, to convey an
arresting sense of uniqueness, to evoke an exalted attention.
-Resonance and Wonder
Stephen Greenblatt, from Exhibiting Cultures
complex, dynamic cultural forces from which it has emerged and for which
it may be taken by a viewer to stand. By wonder I mean the power of the
displayed object to stop the viewer in his or her tracks, to convey an
arresting sense of uniqueness, to evoke an exalted attention.
-Resonance and Wonder
Stephen Greenblatt, from Exhibiting Cultures