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Mike Shaffer

Color Tube Sculpture

 

Sculpture—Small to Medium in Size for Indoor and Gallery Settings. . .

In three dimensions the Grids and Lattices take on a predominately horizontal-vertical configuration with elements oriented along the mathematical x-y-z axis or into parallels. The Objects and Entities, which I sometimes refer to as Born Again Objects, are assembled according to one of five specific schemas.

1. Early Sculpture
Made of scrap and found metal foraged from rural roadsides
2. Early Designs
Architectural accessories, walls, box shaped sculpture and lighting
3. The Towers
Blocks, boards, sticks and the like stacked log cabin fashion
4. Expansion Works
Standing distorted metal, machine and auto parts. Painted and unpainted
5. The Tables
Objects of all kinds atop colorful platforms, formal and polished
6. Ordered Objects
Studies for larger works. Objects arranged onto small panels

7. Objets Trouvé
Wall structures combining elements of painting and sculpture
8. Color Tubes
Crisp minimalist grids in bold and muted primary and metallic colors
9. Lattice Systems
Dense grids in painted and unpainted boards and other materials of length
10. Log Cabin Series
Small house-shaped sculpture in linear objects and materials
11. House Works
Small primitive works with varied surfaces in painted and treated wood

 

 

 

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