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| Artist's Statement Michael Wilson Working in the Art Assemblage arena has been due to influences and friendships with artists who were the founders of the West Coast art movements of the Ferus Gallery (1957-1966) in Los Angeles. Being inspired by the materials, (i.e. found/ discarded objects) a construct is formed with a new life for these discards. The piece begins by continually moving found objects around and abstracting them into what ultimately may be a unified body. No assemblage is started with a clear view of what the finished piece will look like. After much fussing and construct, common objects begin to form the dynamic of a certain cohesion. Possibly the viewer sees familiar objects (perhaps now unrecognizable) that have been altered with a new take where these objects have transformed the bounds of their original use and taking the viewer to another place in consciousness. -MW 2010 |
| Artist's Statement Susan Spencer Chaos to order, confusion to clarity. These are the recurring characteristics I find in works of assemblage. Sitting atop a secluded hill on the Northern Californian coast I can spend hours or days with no human contact other than interludes with artist/ husband Michael. We wander down to the studio, out to the garden, up to the house, with dogs in tow. In the discarded remnants people cast aside I am compelled to find my art. These pieces are little gems that trigger, first, a visual idea, and later, a story or impression of some human moment glimpsed. This art has free-flowing meaning that I am reticent to explain away. I hope that each piece can strike its own relationship with the viewer who can apply his own narrative to the work. -SS 2010 |
