As a sculptor and designer, I am driven to infiltrate our geometric world with the untamed by bringing nature's curious movement into the urban environment. My installations are an organic quiver, a conversation, a repetitive act of searching for a new answer, buried in the mundane. I seek transformation of my materials by using them in mass quantities. With each new material, I employ processes that are so repetitive that their execution becomes a meditation. The act of which becomes the line between precision and confusion, between pain and pleasure, and between me and this painfully beautiful, brutal, and wondrous world. I play.
My landscape design is an integration of art into the everyday world, utilizing natural materials such as stones, steel and plantings. These materials are in conversation with one another, creating space and changing over time. Unlike sculpture, these spaces are allowed to change over time, and grow wiser and richer with age.
In spring 2023, I received my master’s in Landscape Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin to explore the integration between sculpture and landscape. Previously I completed my MFA in sculpture from Indiana University in 2013, my BFA in sculpture and ceramics from the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 2010, and I originally hail from the Black Hills of South Dakota. Since becoming a Texan in 2013, my most notable works are a permanent landscape installation at Springdale General, a complex repurposed tube sculpture at Thinkery ATX, and a site-specific installation for the Facebook Artist in Residence Program.
-SW