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Artist Exhibitions:
2006
Square Foot Show, Art Gotham,
New York, NY
2005
The Chair Story, Mana Fine
Arts, Jersey City, NJ
Columns, Gallery Space at
Grace Van Vorst, Jersey City,
NJ
Mana Fine Arts Inaugural
Exhibition, Mana Fine Arts,
Jersey City, NJ
Women’s History Month, Rotunda
Gallery – City Hall, Jersey
City, ...
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Artist Reviews:
2005
The Jersey City Reporter
presents jersey city ARTISTS
studio tour, October 2005, p.
5. Review of Mana Fine Arts
show, by Diana Schwaeble,
Editor.
Jersey City Current, October
2005. Cover photo of
sculpture in Columns exhibit
at Grace Church Van Vorst and
review, p. 16, by Diana
Schwaeble.
1998
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Artist Statement for Ev Stone
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I studied at the Otis Art Institute / Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, and received my BFA in sculpture at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. I currently live in Jersey City, and collect the majority of my found objects along the Hudson River.
My sculpture has evolved from a time in my childhood that I spent playing in the woods along the Wabash River in Indiana. With my sister’s help, we constructed a series of stick forts, lean-to’s, and hideaways. We created imaginary environments of sneak horseback attacks, sharpened stick defenses, and peacetime trading posts, using yellow creek pebbles as money.
I strive to create the objects that would have filled my life if I could have stayed in that imaginary world of childhood. I try to build in the simplest manner, using as little technology as possible. Made of driftwood, sticks, muslin, twine, and various stains, varnishes and paints, the pieces are intended to have a look of the primitive to their construction. All materials are found, and for the most part are organic. I like to think of my sculptures as coming from the earth, and returning there. I seek to capture elements of seeming randomness and the mystical that are found in nature.
My recent work has progressed in a new dimension. Working with framed boxed collages: I am using crushed, rusted steels and aluminum bits to replace sticks. Corroded and chipped nails and spikes are employed instead of twine and muslin. The frames are carefully stained and aged, becoming part of the composition. The surfaces are becoming skins. However, in the process, I am still trying to elevate these found objects to an ordered, ordained, and iconic status. This transformation of the ‘mundane’ to the ‘aesthetic’ is fundamental to understanding these pieces. I am incorporating more skin-type materials and returning to my exploration of havens and vessels.
Within these structures I look to find a balance between the tribal and primitive versus the man-made and technological, and perhaps between the spiritual versus the intellectual. I create spaces to reflect and consider.
The collages are reflections of over-stimulus, an all-over explosion to the senses of the too much, too fast media. Overloaded with visual information, I recombine the images in a rhythmic pattern in a way that makes more sense to me, creating a unique object from a mass-produced image.
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