Michael Greathouse: Air Forms

My work is concerned with creating mechanical, symbiotic sculptural forms based upon the ideas of relationships.  These relationships exist between the object and environment, the object and the viewer, and the object and itself.  Influenced by the minimalist idea of polarization, my forms are both visually and functionally composed of related non-hierarchical parts that work together to create a whole.

This is the reflection of an attitude toward sculpture that could be seen in literary terms as fact versus fiction.  I use phenomena inherent in how materials react to each other to tell a story.  Each of my sculptures is an autobiography of its own construction.
-- Michael Greathouse

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Christopher Saucedo:Statues (assorted sizes)

Statue (XL). Steel, bronze, and net.

These works are not statues in the conventional sense they are newly defined statues that "take up space and are art."  There are many ways to see them in terms of their context, relationship to one another and their own identifications, as seen in their "thought bubbles."  Saucedo places an emphasis on relative proportions inviting a dialogue between the statues.  After looking at an Audrey Beardsley's drawing of three men of small, medium and large stature all with disproportionate penis sizes, Saucedo has created a similar effect with his work.  

Each statue carries a disproportionate weight (ball). And here lies the sexual ambiguity of the work.  The balls in Saucedo's mind are either testicles or babies, the distinction is left up to the viewer.  The influences in Saucedo's work strongly contrast one another.  Throughout his work one will find references to Brancusi, here it is specifically the Muse.  On the lighter side Pacman is referenced, and so is Ms. Pacman in the series of fruits and a pretzel that creep up the tower. Filled with various references Saucedo has created the broadest spectrum of interpretation for his work.

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Dan Tague: The Art of Dysfunction
Wibble Wobble in the Woods. 30" x 30",
Fluorescent tubes, laser print, plexiglass.

A theme that runs throughout my work is the art of dysfunction.  So it is with this in mind that I regard materials and ideas.  Two components of my idea of dysfunction are suburbia (the square grid of sameness) and adolescence (heightened sense of sexuality).

In order to convey this idea I juxtapose sexual images with maps, carpet, smiley faces, googly eyes, and mattress fabric. These images are incorporated into the abstract language of the grid.  The grid allows a forced interaction between photo images and other media.  Laying disparate materials in the grid format also allows for dysfunctional relationships with the mixed media. This simultaneity of disparate images is a more accurate depiction of the environment we live in.
-- Dan Tague