Joel Otterson: Among Others
Seminal Los Angeles artist Joel Otterson opens his first solo exhibition at Royale Projects, Among Others, opening November 3 and running through December 22, 2019.
Indulgent details from Otterson鈥檚 diverse aesthetic memoir collide with stark minimalism in his complex sculptures. A myriad of techniques and materials are fused together to communicate and question American values.
Drawing from the endless beauty accumulated through human time various aspects of art, decorative art, and objects are reinvented into harmonious amalgamations that celebrate the original sources of inspiration while prompting fresh ways of seeing and thinking about something rare and unusual. As a connoisseur of all objects, his experiences and moments of awe are captured with a snapshot on his phone. The pics are sketches, notes in a diary of his eyes.
The artist states, 鈥渕y curiosity is about the history of all objects in relationship to human beings and my job as an artist is to communicate their joy, beauty, humor and horror.鈥�
His multidisciplinary practice includes glassblowing, embroidery, woodworking, ceramics, casting and welding of metals. Otterson shatters commonplace stereotypes associated with these disparate techniques, juxtaposing methods typically deemed as feminine or masculine, craft or fine art, allowing artworks to become metaphors of a blended world full of delight and wonderment.
Seminal Los Angeles artist Joel Otterson opens his first solo exhibition at Royale Projects, Among Others, opening November 3 and running through December 22, 2019.
Indulgent details from Otterson鈥檚 diverse aesthetic memoir collide with stark minimalism in his complex sculptures. A myriad of techniques and materials are fused together to communicate and question American values.
Drawing from the endless beauty accumulated through human time various aspects of art, decorative art, and objects are reinvented into harmonious amalgamations that celebrate the original sources of inspiration while prompting fresh ways of seeing and thinking about something rare and unusual. As a connoisseur of all objects, his experiences and moments of awe are captured with a snapshot on his phone. The pics are sketches, notes in a diary of his eyes.
The artist states, 鈥渕y curiosity is about the history of all objects in relationship to human beings and my job as an artist is to communicate their joy, beauty, humor and horror.鈥�
His multidisciplinary practice includes glassblowing, embroidery, woodworking, ceramics, casting and welding of metals. Otterson shatters commonplace stereotypes associated with these disparate techniques, juxtaposing methods typically deemed as feminine or masculine, craft or fine art, allowing artworks to become metaphors of a blended world full of delight and wonderment.
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