PETER WOYTUK | Sculpture Portal

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Artist's Statement

My work has developed from an interest in abstract imagery to a more representational exploration of natural form. For me, the subject matter is highly fertile ground, suggesting endless possibilities for three dimensional interpretation and invention. Past sculpture has been concerned with a distillation of animal shape into simpler forms and the resulting interplay of concave and convex masses. This dialectic is intensified by placing animals in groupings, creating environments where the negative space and the relationship between sculptures are as important as the sculptures themselves. I consider the grouping to be one unified sculpture that the viewer is able to walk around and within.

In recent work, "natural forms" in the shape of sticks, limbs and splittings from the backyard woodpile, along with man-made objects such as cast iron pieces, screw and the like have become the components in the sculptural building blocks for assembling a piece. Once cast into bronze, these new pieces are a dynamic mixture of objects, textures and color suggesting a variety of animals.

For the past fourteen years I've had the opportunity to work with several art foundries in Asia. In some cases, these facilities have the capability of melting up to 10,000 pounds of bronze into a single pour. As a result, my work has grown larger and larger in scale. This trend has manifested itself in pieces such as the Five Large Bulls, the Large Elephant Pair, the Large Can Construction and the Large Sheep Pair.

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