A Working Statement About My Art

A Working Statement About My Art

The artwork on this site may be best understood as the output of a professional working artist. In this respect, and for my audience of peers, students, collectors and professionals, I have decided to share artworks that I generally describe as “my art” as well as a few select works from other commissions. These works may not seem contextually relative to the efforts inherent to the making of my art but I do believe these works play an important role in my path as an artist. These select works are most notably here to offer a more comprehensive understanding of my role and experience as a contemporary sculptor, student and educator within my community and at Falls Art Foundry.

My art is nurtured by my education of the natural world and my experiential observations of behavior. I am an artist, craftsperson, and student of natural history whose practice is centrally founded on the exploration of these few subjects. The goal of my artwork is to usher a more profound relationship with nature through art, science and active experiences in space. Through engaging a diverse variety of materials, scales and compositions my collective body of artwork may be better understood as expressions related to behavior, the environment and identity.

Relative to the inherent self interest of our hominid experience, I generally consider myself a figurative artist, regardless of the subject matter or the forms that my work engages.

 

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