Plastic Primitive
Plastic Primitive presents hand-carved wooden sculptures as speculative artifacts that occupy a space between invention and archaeology. The sculptures invite viewers to infer their function, significance, and place within an imagined cultural system.
Rather than concealing the process of making, the sculptures foreground it. Chisel marks, exposed joinery, uneven surfaces, and visible repairs remain part of each sculpture. These traces of making become integral to the work's meaning.
Each sculpture functions as an individual object, yet their presentation together activates relationships that extend beyond the individual work. Rather than resolving into a single narrative, the sculptures suggest systems of ritual, mortality, sexuality, and social exchange.
Rather than reconstructing the past, the work imagines a culture through its objects, leaving their purpose and significance unresolved.
You Have a Beautiful Mind/There Are Two Options, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 29 x 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Hearing Voices is Not What Destroys Us, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 11 x 30 x 23inches
There May be a Reasonable Alternative, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 14 x 7 1/2 x 8 inches
I Want to Tell You Something But I Can't, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 13 x 10 x 9 inches
Attraction and Intimacy, 2017. Wood, paint, and pigmented wax. 29 × 5½ × 19 inches
Attraction and Intimacy (back), 2017. Wood, paint, and pigmented wax. 29 × 5½ × 19 inches
Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 8 x 34 x 9 inches
A Mystery, Fetish, Neurosis and Fragmentation of Ourselves, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, mirror 20 x 22 x 16inches
Real Fake, 2017
Wood, paint, pigmented wax
18 × 8½ × 9 inches
Is There Any Brilliance in Last Memories? 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 22 x 11 x 10 inches
Harder, Better, Faster, 2017. Wood, paint, and pigmented wax. 26 × 6 × 8 inches
Something from Nothing, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 26 x 5 1/2 x 10 inches
That Which We Are, We Are, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 20 x 14 x 12inches
A Better Fictional Analogy, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 9 x 26 x 10inches
You Have a Strange Mind, 2017. Wood, paint, and pigmented wax. 25 × 5½ × 5½ inches
You Have a Strange Mind, 2017. Wood, paint, and pigmented wax. 25 × 5½ × 5½ inches
Three Stages of Ecstasy, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 71 x 11 x 10 inches
Three Stages of Ecstasy, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 71 x 11 x 10 inches
There Are Only Two Dates That Have Meaning, 2017. Wood, paint, and pigmented wax. 22 × 5½ × 6 inches
A Solution and a Problem, 2017, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 23 x 8 x 5 1/2 inches
Tell Me What You Like, 2017
Wood, paint, pigmented wax
11½ × 7 × 6½ inches
Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 11 x 19 x 12 inches
Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 18 x 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 21 x 7 x 7 inches
Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 31 x 6 x 6 inches
Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 27 x 11 x 12 inches
Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 18 x 8 x 7 inches
Possible Partner to Venus, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 10 x 30 x 8 inches
Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 38 x 11 x 9 inches
Untitled (detail) , 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax
Untitled, 2018, wood, paint, pigmented wax, 17 x 14 x 11 inches
Origin of a Species, 2017 wood, paint, 31 x 19 x 10 inches