An Exploration in Abstract Form

My work explores the human figure as a site of tension between presence and fragmentation. Working in bronze and aluminum, I abstract the body to investigate how form carries memory, weight, and emotional residue beyond literal representation. The figure is not depicted as a portrait, but as an evolving structure—compressed, elongated, or fractured to reflect the instability of lived experience.

Bronze, with its historical association to permanence and monument, allows me to anchor these figures in a sense of gravity and endurance. Aluminum, lighter and more responsive, introduces contrast—suggesting vulnerability, movement, and impermanence. The dialogue between these materials mirrors the dualities I am drawn to: strength and fragility, solidity and flux, containment and release.

Through abstraction, I invite viewers to project their own narratives onto the work. Gestures, voids, and surfaces become emotional cues rather than descriptive details. The sculptures exist in an in-between state—recognizably human yet unresolved—reflecting the way identity is continually shaped by internal and external forces.

Ultimately, my practice is an attempt to give form to what is felt but not easily named, allowing the figure to remain open, ambiguous, and alive.

Artist Statement

My assembled and modeled sculpture in bronze and aluminum occupies a space between abstraction and material specificity. Rather than depicting a literal subject, the work emerges through gesture, balance, and spatial tension. Fragmented forms intersect and diverge, suggesting movement without resolving into a fixed narrative. The abstraction allows the viewer to enter the piece intuitively—through weight, line, void, and surface—rather than through representation.

The work is constructed through an additive process of assembly and modeling as a singular mass. Individual components retain their autonomy while participating in a larger compositional rhythm. Negative space becomes as significant as mass; gaps and intervals activate the surrounding environment and emphasize the sculpture’s openness.

Abstraction here is not an escape from meaning but a strategy for multiplicity. The piece resists a single interpretation, instead offering a field of relationships—between materials, between forms, and between the object and the viewer. Through this interplay, the sculpture proposes that structure and identity are dynamic, assembled through tension, contrast, and continual reconfiguration.

ABOUT ME

I was born and raised in a small town in Indiana. I went to college at The Savannah College of Art and Design and earned a degree in Illustration. After college I worked in the News business ultimately getting a job as Art Director for WTXF in Philadelphia. After moving on from FOX Philly, I began foundry classes at The Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts where I learned to Sculpt and pour bronze and aluminum. I then got a job at Independent Casting, a foundry out of Philadelphia. There I refined my knowledge of sculpture and foundry work leading to my time as pour master and discovering “slag” that has recently dominated my work in abstraction.

  • I see shapes in just about everything. Putting them together to make forms and figures is my passion.

  • In a foundry pour there is always a bit of "spillage". This spillage is referred to as slag or dross. Much like seeing figures in clouds, I see figures in this slag.

  • As a graphic designer for television news, I started noticing how shapes intermingled with other shapes. Creating in 3D software let me explore this deeper.