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Artist Statement

Over the past several years, my exposure to a range of media, artists and instructors has resulted in the development of my performance and installation work, with a specific focus of the intersection of the conceptual and the social in contemporary sculpture.

A recent project that embodies these interests is my work with temporarily installed structures of recycled clay and synthetic materials. As a means to parody the conventions of fine art connoisseurship and display, I utilize imperfectly constructed, leaking, plexiglass display cases to contain the unstable, squalid piles of clay and fur coils.

Alternatively, these constructions have been created in neglected zones in public buildings, drawing attention to the idiosyncrasies of institutional architecture via temporary, localized spectacle. The totality of the process is celebrated as a continuum and presented as ‘the work’—from conception to material realization, from social interaction to the structure’s ultimate decomposition and removal.

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