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" I reuse and juxtapose discarded objects and utilitarian common materials into mixed media constructs. The previous functions or purposes are woven and blended until a new sculpture remains. These remains reveal much about the process of making, but leave the underlying reasons for selection and combination of things up to the endless interpretations of the viewer. My goal is to make something legible without being obvious, create something significant from the seemingly insignificant."
BRIAN CAVANAUGH received his BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio and his MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago . But it wasn't until after school that his real education began. For 15years Cavanaugh designed/built educational and natural history exhibits. He has built life-sized, walk-through re-creation environments for the John G. Shedd Aquarium and the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History. While working full-time, he also took every opportunity to show his art in the galleries of Chicago . Working in the post-modern, found object, "Arte Povera" tradition, Cavanaugh describes his work as having a basis in science and nature. His work walks a fine line between art and artifact, but really deals with issues of contemporary condition. The sculpture is about itself, art as commodity and metaphoric alchemy "I've been told that the work looks like props from a movie," he says. "The characters and plotline left foggy, are up to the viewers endless interpretations!" Learn more about Cavanaugh at www.briancavanaughartwork.com |
