houston sculptors

This Year, Say It With Fireworks

What’s an Explosionist sculptor to do when the machine shop down the alleyway drops material manna outside his back door?

. . . Make Pop Art M-80’s with block printed motifs!

Of course, the lighters are only there to show scale, these won’t actually light. Below is a video of the process:  (music by my band Beerdo)

No, it’s not my style as of late, but I have always wanted to try woodblock printing (invented in China). I could not resist the red, spiral wound cardboard of this found material. It even smells like ordinance when cut. I use fireworks to burn patterns in my abstract art. Besides, who doesn’t love melting down a bunch of glue sticks?

All you need to carve a woodblock, use a piece of sanded plywood.  Go here https://www.texasart.com/ and get a brayer (roller) and block printing ink.

It is a new technique and a new graphical direction for my art.  In this very political year it seemed like a good time to get back to my “Icon and Symbology” series which I have shown at The Art Car Museum and Lawndale Art Center (a review of that show:  http://www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2012/12/going-nowhere-fast.html  ).

Questions, comments, critiques:  jamesciosek@msn.com

Sculpture Sold to New Houston Art Collector

I would rather have sold this sculpture at a galley show. I miss the people and the party in this year given unto the plague. What a wonderful bolt from the blue to have an old acquaintance call me in search of a wedding anniversary present, (they buy art for each other every year).

An outdoor sculpture, created from architectural materials scrounged from the streets of Houston in the wake of Hurricane Ike, the corrugated tin was taken to the country for artistic treatment. Below is a video of the process:

I exhibited this sculpture in solo shows at Redbud Gallery and Zoya Tommy Gallery, garnering good responses including a review: http://www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2012/01/post-industrial-pagan-megaliths.html This is the fifth sculpture from my “Constructed Chaos” series to sell. Since I installed it in the collectors’ yard, the neighbors have been enjoying it, too.

If you have questions, are interested in seeing more photos of this series or reading my artist statement about it, please email me, jamesciosek@msn.com