Sculpture

Most of my sculpture has been figurative.  While a painting exists as a skin or surface, a sculpture is a thing.  A bit more than a thing, it’s an object in relation to its maker and/or viewer.  That relation gives it an existence akin to that of a being.  In that way sculpture creates an encounter.

These pieces begin with the idea of the figure and are the result of an engagement with the material both as it begins to embody the figure and as it continues to maintain its plasticity, its qualities of imminence and emergence.  This interplay is coupled with the way an object-in-the-round creates a tension between what’s visible – on this side – and what is imminent – but invisible – on the back side.  Working with the human figure brings emotional dimensions into play that heightens the formal interactions, adding another level of immediacy.