Belated congrats to Chris Oliver for winning the 2005 Outstanding Student Achievement in Comtemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center (the publisher of "Scupture" Magazine). This is his award-winning piece above, titled "Accretion with Carport".
His artist's statement reads: "My work is about the creation, evolution, and perception of built places. The way that buildings grovel and decay is my primary source material. Inspired by vernacular carpentry, I create spatial networks that grow from a central core. Each structure is sheathed with a translucent skin of wood. This work must be explored like a vast attic that is too condensed to physically enter: one stands on tiptoe to peer over it or crouches to see under it, attempting to make sense of a space that suggests a roofscape or the interior of a machine."
Chris earned his MFA in Sculpture from SUNY-Albany in 2005. Go Chris!
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