ARTIST BIO
I am a Minneapolis based artist working professionally in the field of sculpture and installation. Originally I was trained as a painter and was introduced to three dimensional art forms by studying origami while living in a monastery in Japan. Returning to Minnesota I continued my studies at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design with a concentration in print, paper and book making so that I could continue to work with paper and utilize traditional printmaking techniques on my sculptures. While utilizing two dimensional printing techniques for three dimensional artwork, I naturally became interested in three dimensional printing. Building my own printer’s and being on the forefront of technology, the subject matter of my work developed around science, technology and the digital.
ART BIO
As we are impelled into the digital era, an endless array of virtual information continues to displace how we experience, respond and imagine art. What we are and what we are not (i.e the self) is perpetually altered. Incorporating digital consciousness into an analog process, my work sets out to bring “cyber culture” to a place of visual cognition and physical conception. The intention of my sculptures are to mirror databases of the internet, to reflect geometry found in digital media and to create work that defines the self and psyche integrated into technology. I’ve found a particular focus in the process of manifesting the physical from the digital and thus my subject matter finds relevance in the relatively contemporary nature of fabricating art with technology.