ICOSA Collective presents our 27th installment of our Window Dressing series featuring the work of Damian Noll.
My formative development in sculpture was conceptual, always with a focus on the materials used and what they had to say.
SUNLIGHT and BONE
This current work has honed that material regard to its simplest form.
With the use of a magnifying lens I draw with SUNLIGHT; solar tattooing on BONE.
These two materials,
SUN and BONE,
are integral to life itself.
They are primordial building blocks.
As an artist creating this work I get to sit in the SUN, focusing on a tiny, brilliant point of light, slowly tracing black lines across smooth white surfaces. It’s mesmerizing, the SUN marking the BONE, working with the evidence of life and death, and the beauty they create together.
The BONES are traces of lives lived.
The black lines are traces of SUNLIGHT.
Many of these BONES I acquire from local hunters, butchers, or road kills. I peel them back to their core structure, then I reinvigorate the remains with designs created from SUNLIGHT. These finished works are a material testament to the beauty of the simple and integral.
Free
2023/05/19 - 2023/05/19
Additional time info:
Exhibition: May 15th – 22nd, 2023
Artist Reception: Friday, May 19th, 7-9pm
Exhibition is visible 24 hours/day
ICOSA Collective
916 Springdale Rd, Bldg 2, #102, Austin, TX 78702, Austin, TX 78702