My work is about the things I think I can have an impact on. I find our culture lacking in empathy, and I find our national dialog to be binary, that is to say that we are pushing further from a calm and thoughtful center and deeper towards the bickering margins. I look to explore that center through work that expresses the commonalities we have with each other and how we might be able to forgive ourselves and each other for being human.
Scott Froschauer
By using the materials and visual language of street signs, but replacing the traditional negative wording (Stop, Do Not Enter, Wrong Way…) with positive affirmations, my “The Word on the Street” series seeks to provide something that is missing from our daily visual diet.
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Olivia Steele
Steele harnesses the power of neon gas to assert symbolic phrasing that allures and provokes. Her expansive career has seen her impart fragments of wisdom and wit all over the globe, from Tulum to Berlin to Mumbai in the form of site-specific land art and indoor installation. Aside from the immediately iconic and often humorous style of Steele’s work, her interventions are pointedly placed in environments that prompt existential musings. Her innate relationship with the sublime and spiritual manifest as explosive imagery where Steele’s opus positions her as one of the most compelling contemporary artists working in her field today.
Words are so powerful, but questions can be even more so. Are you asking the right questions? What If this is All Real? engenders countless avenues for contemplation as it crystallizes the unity of reality and imagination. Imagine the glow as the Noble neon gas burns a message into the intoxicating quiet.
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Darrell E. Ansted
Hero’s Journey – A calling to venture forth from the physical. Fabulous forces encountered. A decisive victory won. The awakened Hero returns to share their gifts. The rough holes represent the journey through life that is not always smooth but always leads us back to remembering and sharing our GIFTS.
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HYBYCOZO
HYBYCOZO is a collaborative installation arts collective made up of Serge Beaulieu and Yelena Filipchuk. Our work consists of larger than life sculptures with laser cut patterns that draw on inspirations from mathematics, science, and natural influences. Our passion stems from one core impulse: to celebrate the inherent beauty of geometric form and pattern, and showcase them in ways that harmonizes the experience of sculpture, light, and shadow.
We seek to create public installations that promote education and knowledge about geometric and scientific concepts, quite literally helping people see and think outside of the box. We hope the sculptures can serve as a gathering point for the community and a dynamic space to enjoy dynamic lighting and interesting geometric form.
We got our start experimenting with laser cutting and 3D printing and quickly realized that we were both extremely passionate about pushing the limits of these technologies to create art. Our interests in geometry and mathematics continued further drawing from influences as far reaching as high energy particle physics and Islamic geometry.
Our work has been a journey to discover the influences of geometry on human culture and evolution, the interconnections between art and science, and develop a keen understanding of human perception. We hope to create a place of refuge and wonder, a place of contemplation and a place of celebration, but most of all a place to feel the language of the universe unfolding all around you.