Artist Statement
I make sculptures and installations exploring landscape, architecture, and the utopian instinct. Suggesting tensions between nature and construct the works explore a sense of disconnect between a positivist, modernist stance and the byproduct of that stance, a looming sense of unease with the less than positive results.
Experimental communities influence the work; they epitomize our best and worst instincts colliding. Drop City, was an early (1965) commune in Trinidad, Colorado. At the trash yard, Droppers would use axes to cut out car hoods for their geodesic domes. Given a Dymaxion Award by Buckminster Fuller in ’67, Drop City was abandoned by the early ‘70s. Several of my pieces suggest the forms and palettes of Drop City, and of Modernist architecture and design, with elements of discord.
Asian scholar’s stones, objects of psychic transport, are also an inspiration.
This project is made possible with funds from Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of New York State Council on the Arts
with support of the office of the Governor and the
NYS Legislature administered by CREATE Council on the Arts
Many thanks to Time & Space Ltd as the OSH 2024 fiscal sponsor and their past partnerships. We could not have done this without your support!
https://timeandspace.org
Open Studio Hudson is grateful to be the recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts 2024 Grant, facilitated by Create Council on the Arts. This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul.
Many thanks to Time & Space Ltd as the OSH 2024 fiscal sponsor and their past partnerships. We could not have done this without your support!
