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AN ART CONCEPT THAT THINKS IT’S A GAME This is one of many art games I have produced over the last 40 years. It models an evolving ecosystem in the ever-changing context of nature. It not only emulates a form of evolution but illustrates how cultures form structures of belief systems and survival skills, that evolve and change as functioning societies. In minimal terms, it applies three of the most important elements of life; Choice, Chance and the Aesthetic. While playing this art concept, a world outside of right or wrong is created within a perfect fractal. Here the term Aesthetic is not only likened to that of an artist, deciding what color should be applied but how an engineer will step beyond what she or he knows to justify a complex structure, or how a judge will make a decision to create the perception of justice. To learn more click on see BANG or see |
LIVING IN ART Architectural Art Applications, Custom Patinas and Fine Finishes
seeFURNITURE AND ARCHITECTURAL APPLICATIONS
Many projects fall 10 percent from being great. Wooldridge Studio desires to help bring that 10 percent to the top. To often, much time and money is spent and the finishing touches are lost, leaving the uninformed client less than ecstatic and wondering what is missing.
We work holistically with architects, builders and above all the owners to add that "WOW" factor that keeps a project from having an anticlimactic, imbalanced feeling.
Artful elements bring these finishes to closure, preventing another purchased, manufacture or over designed look, that quickly fades with time. In other words, the painting you can not define becomes more important, and the matching pillows, fade. The art becomes the living and unique object. If one doubts this axiom, go to vintage art, antique dealers or a architectural salvage yards to search out the fantastic gems that have been worth saving.
We work holistically with architects, builders and above all the owners to add that "WOW" factor that keeps a project from having an anticlimactic, imbalanced feeling.
Artful elements bring these finishes to closure, preventing another purchased, manufacture or over designed look, that quickly fades with time. In other words, the painting you can not define becomes more important, and the matching pillows, fade. The art becomes the living and unique object. If one doubts this axiom, go to vintage art, antique dealers or a architectural salvage yards to search out the fantastic gems that have been worth saving.
SCULPTURAL WALL INSTALLATIONS
see FINDING ZERO
CUSP SCULPTURES
see CUSP THEORY
SCULPTING IN DIFFERENT MEDIUMS FOR DIFFERENT VISIONS
Much of my work is diverse in concept and material application but is continuous in its statement of bringing complex ideas and forms together, that create and model visual, mathematical and emotional dialogs.
TABLE SCARS & CUTTING BLOCKS
A vessel of experience, 40 years of history is recorded in the hardened steel of my work table. Like a needle on a record, artifacts of time telling stories deeply and cryptically embedded in it. In a literal sense, they represent the battle of digging and scraping for beauty and its meaning. The pathetic notion of "The Path", is not romanticized or outsourced here but brutally experienced with an undeniable physical and visual presence. This stands beyond the fiat currency of value and what is reproduced. It resinates with the ether, something that is greater and interstices the existence of idea and outcome. Each hammered form and photographed section defies a simple interpretation of a living document, never truly grasped.
(I have photographed over thirty of these stories and have printed them on (24" x24") aluminum panels or custom sizes up0n request.)
"The Pillows Of Our Fathers"
I have created prints and materials for scultpures by ferociously hammering softer metals into these scared surfaces, so hard that each scratch, dent and drill hole is embossed into the metals. This envelopes a type of print making not so familiar to the print world that sees this as questionable. Some of the sculptures are part of a series call "The Pillows of Our Fathers." Metaphorically it depicts that our children typically are unaware of what they rest their heads on every night.
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"The Cutting Blocks " These pieces are hammered creating a type 0f imprint/print of my cutting blocks. The edges are hammered thin to emulate the deckled edges of rag paper that would be used for intaglio or lithography . |
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Sculpting Custom Fireplaces, Walls, Doors and the Entire Exterior of Buildings
This specific fireplace was custom designed for this home and measures 16'x10' dropping back to the walls approximate 19 to 24 inches.
