Tuesday
Aug 24, 2010 @ 9am
Structures
I’m installing my first one-man show this week at the Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery. It’s called ‘Structures‘. Don’t miss the opening, this Friday, from 6:30 to 9:30. Directions are here.
Here’s the image from the postcard and the statement…

Starting with the essential functional elements of familiar forms, I try to refine and recreate them in original, simple and meaningful, structures. This approach sometimes adds complexity, other times it simplifies things. But in all cases, the process of dissection and restructuring is revealing to me. It leads me to think about those qualities most inherent to common forms, qualities that as often as not go unquestioned or are taken for granted. It is a designer’s approach, as opposed to an aesthetician’s. Beauty is as important to me as any other element of a design, but the beauty I’m after is spare. It’s the thing itself in the economy of its form, not an elaboration.


