Loren Eiferman

Loren Eiferman, 14 V, 2017, 94 Pieces of Wood, 48 x 22 x 18 in, wood sculpture

2017

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FOCUS is a public art sculpture about photographic vision and how it shapes the way we see the world. It is concerned with the viewer’s growing visual perception and bodily experienc...

The freestanding sculptures in this portfolio are made from the “sticks”: a pile of found wood that Sweibel has been pulling from to make new works since about 2002. The pile consisted of more than a dozen four- to seven-foot lengths of hardwood, each an uneven inch in depth and width. The sticks were warped, with worn yellow paint on one side and raw wood on the other three. Over the years she has painted the raw sides of the sticks, cut the wood into shorter lengths, and sliced paint off – and kept the residue from these actions. Sweibel has also made sculptures ranging from full-length sticks to tiny stick splinters. She built these sculptures using sliced-off paint. Timeworn materials and objects have an intelligence that the artist looks for and listens to. Shaping and reshaping material to find new form and elicit new insights in the material itself is the territory she is mining. The limitations of the process are its strengths. Her work is concerned with fragility, precariousness, adaptability, and strength. It is a visual response to powerful yet unseen forces - like wind and thoughts - that threaten, propel, ruin, and protect. Liz Sweibel is a multidisciplinary artist working in drawing, sculpture, installation, and digital photography and video. Her spare, personal language of abstraction transforms ordinary materials into statements about connectedness and responsibility: every action has an impact, the effects persist in space and over time, and we are accountable. By drawing attention to simple, ordinary “stuff of life” and referencing both shared and personal history, Sweibel’s work explores and reflects back fundamental experiences in response to our world and relationships. Her intention is to reinvigorate viewers’ awareness of the everyday – in its raw beauty and precariousness – in hopes that they might bring heightened senses of sight and care to their daily lives. Sweibel has participated in solo, two-person, and group exhibits in New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Michigan, and Tennessee since 1998. In 2016, Sweibel’s work was in the group shows Lightly Structured at Sculpture Space NYC, Precarious Constructs at the Venus Knitting Art...

Artist Commentary: The main log of this sculpture was gotten through Chicago's Streets and Sanitation Department. It was from a catalpa tree that once grew in the city. Keywords: fi...

Artist Commentary: This sculpture is a combination of the natural (the standing walnut split log) and the classical (the cherry bas-relief face). Keywords: figurative carved log and...

"Butterfly Effect No. 1" by Norman Mooney Edition of 10 + 2AP Apple plywood In 1994 Mooney moved from Ireland to New York City and has been exhibiting locally and internationally fo...

Colorful abstract contemporary collage sculpture that incorporates pages from 1960 Sears catalogues, cardboard, wood, concrete, acrylic paint, and wood glue. The bright red sculpture...