Sculpture is meant to be seen in the round, from all sides. Sometimes I juxtapose unlike objects, perhaps a face I had carved in wood with a printer's plate and some bones. Or working from a model I shape clay into a figure then cast it. Or explore purely abstract form. An open process allows possibilities to flow.
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Man vs. Cellphone, resin, sand, 4.75” x 2.25” x 2.25” / 12 x 6 x 6 cm 2006
photos: Egils Zarins |
Man vs. Airport, resin, sand, 3.25” x 5” x 1.75” / 8 x 13 x 4 cm, 2006
The back view uses an impression from a printer’s block of the Lawrence, MA. airport. I grew up in that immigrant city. photos: Egils Zarins |
The Woman Thinks, resin, sand, 9” x 10” x 18” / 23 x 25 x 46 cm, 2006
photos: Egils Zarins |
Untitled, cast plaster, 12” x 6” x 5” / 30 x 15 x 13 cm, 2006. Photos: Egils Zarins
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steel and mixed media
in a group installation
Sustainability, painted steel, wood, birch bark, oak leaves, maple seeds, 10" x 6" x 7 / 25 x 15 x 18 cm, 2005. photos: Egils Zarins
Sustainability was part of a group installation called Ourchitecture curated by Elizabeth Keithline at the Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island. Each artist was given a small wooden house module to transform. These were arranged on an X-shaped platform. To see the museum's .pdf map of the installation click here.
Sustainability worked from the premise that if we and our architecture are to survive, we must be sustainable. That critical sustainability will lead to freedom from dependence.and from the terminal fate we otherwise will suffer. Trees are a good metaphor for sustainability. The wings and uplifted posture suggest independence. The shadow is larger than the footprint of the house to suggest that by taking action towards a better fate our possibilities are greater.
“Some of the most successful transformations, artistically, draw on the desire to transcend confinement or, in contrast, stress the menace that can be felt to surround protected spaces. Wings sprouting from its roof, Joyce Audy Zarins’ birch-bark-covered “Sustainability” is tipped back, about to take flight.”
- Bill Rodrigues. “Home is where…” The Providence Phoenix December 16-22, 2005
Sustainability was part of a group installation called Ourchitecture curated by Elizabeth Keithline at the Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island. Each artist was given a small wooden house module to transform. These were arranged on an X-shaped platform. To see the museum's .pdf map of the installation click here.
Sustainability worked from the premise that if we and our architecture are to survive, we must be sustainable. That critical sustainability will lead to freedom from dependence.and from the terminal fate we otherwise will suffer. Trees are a good metaphor for sustainability. The wings and uplifted posture suggest independence. The shadow is larger than the footprint of the house to suggest that by taking action towards a better fate our possibilities are greater.
“Some of the most successful transformations, artistically, draw on the desire to transcend confinement or, in contrast, stress the menace that can be felt to surround protected spaces. Wings sprouting from its roof, Joyce Audy Zarins’ birch-bark-covered “Sustainability” is tipped back, about to take flight.”
- Bill Rodrigues. “Home is where…” The Providence Phoenix December 16-22, 2005
and on the wall... archipelago elements