
Spotlight Artist
Chad Sines
MFA Annual
Artist Statement
I am interested in the complex relationships that question the
understanding of how social environments shape us, oftentimes
referencing social issues within a community context. In my
work, I set out to explore a multilayered realm of ideas on social
and urban sustainability. Having engaged subjects as diverse
as the factors that influence an understanding of people and
their environments, my work can be seen as environmental
interventions in which I redefine materials scavenged from the
street as sculptural installations that respond to the impromptu
networks that emerge within a city. Handling issues of economy,
material use, and value, my process is an exchange between the
execution of decisions and concessions made to the nature of the
materials. Addressing these issues less in terms of form than
as a kind of strategy, I decompose the subject and selectively
isolate and reassemble its parts to articulate a precise formal
language that speaks to our collective experience and the
complex interactions therein.
Artist's Additional works
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