Steel sculpture and work on paper
Listing Type :
Artist Open Studio
Website : rebeccawelz.com
Instagram : rebeccawelzsculpture
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Open Hours : My studio will be open Saturday October 5 and Sunday October 6 between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm
ADA accessible : Other (please explain)
If you entered"other" please explain : If requested, the freight elevator can be used.
Artist Statement : Rebecca Welz, 6/2024 My work is inspired by natural wonders and ecological processes that combine to give us biodiversity. I am concerned with the role that humans have in sustaining or destroying our biodiversity. My steel sculpture utilizes lines that combine together to make form relating to systems and networks in nature such as the underground mycelium fungi that connects plants and trees together. Studying and teaching biomimicry has led me to discover a myriad of remarkable functions in the natural world which continue to energize me. My sculptures begin with straight, round steel rods of varying thicknesses. The steel is bent, curved and secured in an entirely intuitive process to build form using the primal elements of heat and fire from an oxy-acetylene torch. The heating, bending and welding process is repeated until the form is complete and there appears to be no beginning or end to the lines. The resulting pieces appear light and organic but they have the weight of steel. On a recent trip to Costa Rica, I photographed rivers from a small plane and was fascinated by the types of curves the water forges in the land. From above the rivers seemed like veins in the earth carrying lifeblood. Drawing from these and continuing observations, I have been working on an open ended series of mixed media collages. I have started making small forms out of air drying clay which are strung on wires and integrated with the welded steel forms. This is an exciting new departure for my work to combine different media, color and form.
Artist's Medium : Mixed media, Sculpture
Genres : Abstraction, Abstraction