Sheetz
All works acrylic and enamel on steel.
'Sheetz' (2015 - present) is an ongoing series of painted sheet metal sculptures made in response to everyday objects. Each piece operates as both object and image, abstraction and naturalistic representation, and display aspects of both a true and a depicted materiality. In each object, previously functional qualities take on new roles as signifiers of meaning when re-cast as elements within a sculpture. One motif I have returned to in this series is the newspaper page-spread. Stripped of images and text, these sculptures of opened pages rely on previously secondary qualities, such as the layout of photo boxes, gutters and borders, and the physical nature of the page itself, to deliver content to a viewer. By rendering this familiar format unfamiliar through a painterly process of reduction, I hope to highlight the dissonant experiences of reading versus looking and the varieties and limits of communication itself.