@ the "Bay Window Studio" and garage
Artist Statement
Personal observations are perhaps the single most valuable gift an artist can
give to the world. Without the singular perspective an object or painting is
only justified as another component of the general view screen. I ask the viewer
to use my presented view as a jumping off place from which to match
observations, compare experiences and investigate predicaments. Much of what I do begins with a word or two, that spawn an image. When
explaining something to another I very often fall to drawing pictures to
explain. Explaining the human nuance seems easier on paper or in three
dimensions. Story telling is essentially an image building exercise. Trying to
explain a human concept gets across better when the eyes are involved. It's more
real and it becomes owned jointly. With only words I'm not sure the audience
sees things essential to me. Their internal image maker has different tools and
raw materials than mine. So I make things, gestures, fantasies and lies and bald
truths. The results are wonders to me as well. Is the body of work a coherent message? Probably no more than life itself.
There is perhaps a chronology, or progression. The work is intended more as a magnifying
glass than a mirror. More like a bell jar than a pedestal. Why Bay Window Studio and Garage. Both humility and hubris brought me to
recognize I couldn't entirely hide the fact that my studio is in my home's
garage. So why not celebrate the fact. After all that big open door does make
for a great bay window on the world. Tony
My main format is sculpture, that thing you walk around to get to the art. My
media of
choice at this point, porcelain and stoneware fired mid range at cone 6,
however as you can see the material is secondary to the image or thought and
where appropriate I will combine materials.
Enjoy what you see, think about it a little, laugh or cry a little.
After all it’s just show and tell. The codification or materialization of
personal observations. There are elements of story telling, criticism, play and
wonder, exposition and sensationalism; but mostly just an attempt to hold out an
image as worthy of some attention. Here is a thought, an idea, an observation
that I want to share.
