Conceptual Sculpture
With my conceptual sculptural objects, I am equally interested in process and product; years of work might be crystallized in a seemingly mundane, every day object. My obsession with post-minimalism, surrealism, the bizarre, the stunning, and the haunting, surges forward. An interest in performance, and my position as equally contemporary artist and ethnographer, inform my work in different ways, with the possibilities of what I might make, remaining open.
My 'Untitled A' conceptual sculptural objects on view in the Fictions exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, emerged at the interstices of my interest in minimalism, post-minimalism, and certain readymade objects, and my ongoing anthropological research of an east side Detroit neighborhood.
Over the course of years, I sourced glass and dishware from my neighborhood with a key informant for my field research, Greg Winters, ultimately fashioning glass art objects inside an installation conceived while in residency in Aarhus, Denmark.