Artist Information:
Tosca Teran
toronto,
Canada
Member Since: Apr 2006
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Artist Statement:
“Where there is a work of art,
there is no madness;
and yet madness is
contemporary with the work of
art, since it inaugurates the
time of its truth.”
Michel Foucault (1977)
I have been working with metal
and computers for 20+ years.
Striving to integrate the two
within my jewelry and
sculptural objects, my
installations explore this
integration through a
combination of wire frame
constructions, hollow forms,
shape memory alloys, glass,
sound chips, proximity
sensors, sonic distortions,
and 3D scans.
My current body of work is
exploring organic forms and
structures within the realm of
memory. Creating new pod like
organisms for rapid
prototyping, casting,
fabrication, flamework or
blown glass and interaction.
My objective within this
current body of work is to
take the wearer or observer to
another world, or perhaps- a
more primordial memory.
Through my own
representational language, be
it obvious or obscure, I wish
to engage the psyche. By
employing that which may be
real or imagined(virtual) I am
suggesting a believable
structure yet one not
necessarily rational. The
thought forms which I depict
in this new series;
"Devotional pods, Canopic pods
and other narratives" work
through the implications of
gestation (genome, cloning),
and...
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Tosca Teran's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Tosca Teran's Portfolio. Browse Teran's body of work: “Where there is a work of art, there is no madness;
and yet madness is contemporary with the work of art, since it inaugurates the time of its truth.”
Michel Foucault (1977)
I have been working with metal and computers for 20+ years.
Striving to integrate the two within my jewelry and sculptural objects, my installations explore this integration through a combination of wire frame constructions, hollow forms, shape memory alloys, glass, sound chips, proximity sensors, sonic distortions, and 3D scans.
My current body of work is exploring organic forms and structures within the realm of memory. Creating new pod... |
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