adam brent - I'm OK with it

adam brent

In my sculpture, installation and interventions, it is important to experience the surrounding space, but more important is the need to intimately sense place. I think that we all have the ability to experience architecture, structures, art and objects emotionally. I also think that this sensation can be amplified by color, visual depth of field, the impact of scale and a direct use of choice materials. I have made work about domesticity, place and memory. When I make woven rag rugs, carve in text or care for living plants I am finding role players in a larger domestic portrait that loosely develops until the work feels complete. Recent work references the quick, spacious and leisure oriented architecture associated with the post-war housing boom. The structures I build in this series are raw partial enclosures, each revealing the manner in which they were constructed. Blurring boundaries between interior and exterior, they are about projection as architecture and the human scale. All work in this series is modular in design and can readily collapse.