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STATEMENT OF WORK
“The I in Sight” presents a new series by Michael Velliquette, an artist internationally renowned for his intricately crafted works in the medium of paper. Velliquette’s recent body of monochromatic sculptural constructions are built up in shallow relief with gold metallic paper imbuing them with a glimmering sheen and which make them appear from certain aspects self-illuminating. Velliquette revisits a lexicon of imagery he has used in his earlier work including eye and hand motifs, to represent sensory experiences such as sight and touch as well as more contemplative phenomena such as seeing and feeling.
Velliquette’s works are exquisitely crafted by cutting, rolling, folding, and layering paper into complex dimensional tableaux. Their dazzling degree of texture and detail display a mastery of skill he has developed over the past two decades working with the medium.
In tandem with his new paper constructs Velliquette will also exhibit his first series of free-standing metal sculptures.