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Statement
My artistic process is one of gathering, sorting, and assimilating; I attempt to (re)shape, through sculptural form, some distillation of my subjective experience. The ‘body’ is usually my starting point, either through modeling or life casting. It is through repetition of the semi-figurative/semi-abstracted elements, an intuitive process of making and unmaking, that allows me to arrive at the compositions and ultimately the content I desire. The work explores various subjective states: psychological, emotional, physical, and social. Drawing upon imagery as an entry point, and sensory/tactile experience as a physical embodiment of ideas, I invite the viewer to contemplate the indeterminate nature of my pieces.
Biography
Isabel Farnsworth, Associate Professor (Sculpture) received her BFA in painting from Tyler School of Art in 1989 and her MFA in Sculpture from Stanford University in 1995. She attended Skowhegan School of Art in 1988 and has been an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (the Core Program at The Glassell School) 1989-91, the Rijksacademie Von Beelden Kuntz in Amsterdam in 1990, and the Cite’ International des Arts in Paris in 1995. She is the recipient of an individual Artist Fellowship grant from the Ohio Arts Council in 1999.
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