
Spotlight Artist
Sterling Allen
West
Artist Statement
My recent work is centered around my complicated and
somewhat stunted affinity for sculpture, which I’ve come
to realize is greatly informed by drawing, painting, and
photography, typically two-dimensional mediums. I am looking
at the ways we represent volume in two dimensions and in
turn the ways in which sculptures/objects can be suggestive
of shallow space or flatness. Color and shape are an important
part of this. Perspective and point of view play a role as well.
I am interested in the play of a picture in the round.
My work celebrates pop, the handmade, color, line, the cheap
illusion, and the codependent and oppositional relationship
between documentation and sculpture.
Artist's Additional works
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