Paul Angert
Paul Angert is a Cleveland/Chicago-based artist currently studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Paul Angert is a Cleveland/Chicago-based artist currently studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Selected Works
Studio Practice
About
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Artist Statement:
Behind the opaque membrane of materiality—that is the drop ceiling—flows the plenum space. A space of fluidity, circulation, and movement. It is from the plenum that we draw breath, and it is the plenum that animates our flesh with current. The plenum exists in a realm of transparency beyond the realm of the opaque, and thus in order to access the plenum the whole of materiality must fade into a state of transparency. My practice centers around accessing this transparency, bridging the synapse between the opaque and the transparent, materializing that which is translucent. My practice seeks to realize neurological processes of spirituality, where sculptural forms do not conform to a binary functionality, but rather operate paradoxically. Materials of wood, metal, wire, and rope maintain a state of transient function, shifting between moments of conductivity and resistivity, inhale and exhale, violence and tenderness, transmitter and receiver.