Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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STATEMENT OF WORK
These sculptures and paintings emerge from an understanding of the world as living, sensing, receptive, participatory. In these pieces the natural world is an intelligent sentient system. Leaves, foliage, flowers and vines weave themselves across the surface, churning bloom and decay. The earth itself is living, and an energy radiates from within it.
Sentience is not reserved for the animals, trees and flowers, but belongs to matter itself. Each material and process interacts with time, longevity, and decay in a unique way. Clay requires decisiveness, as its transformations from one state to another are irreversible. It asks that its composition, structure, color and form emerge simultaneously. Its transformation is obscured, and it emerges as something both very fragile, and strong enough to last thousands of years. A painting typically emerges more slowly. It enjoys the effort, wandering, and uncertainty of the many layers below it’s surface. It could always be changed, added to, or covered. It can be regretted, longed for, or left to rest in the sun, or in a corner out of view. A painting is receptive, magnifying my confusion with it’s squishy liquidity and portal-like mirror of unending possibilities.