Paul Angert
Paul Angert is a Cleveland/Chicago-based Catholic artist currently studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Paul Angert is a Cleveland/Chicago-based Catholic artist currently studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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The southern border wall of the United States, bleak, yet imposing stands as an isolating, unnatural measure that sacrifices love, connection, and solidarity, for a false pretense of safety and security.
In addition to symbolizing humanities division, it significantly impacts wildlife. The Desert Bighorn Sheep that are native to much of the South Western United States and Northern Mexico have experienced enormous habitat loss and their migration routes have been largely cut off as a direct result of the wall.
The symbols of the wall and the sheep materialized respectively, as an object of hate, and a vessel for the hated. The hollow cavity of the carcass and visible connection points between the pelt and internal metal frame create an inhabitable environment allowing for the viewer to enter into the broken body. Large wooden horns serve as a reminder of...
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72x84x60
Materials:
canvas, gravel, plaster, cardboard, burlap, steel, douglas fir, rope, sheep’s pelt
Whispers are the screams of a people who fear
that soon they shall be discovered.
Made prey to the ones that pray
for a new life, never to be recovered.
Souls weighed with scale,
a currency, imported and deported.
Beyond the shroud of life’s end veil
all shall be sorted.
Both predator and prey are deaf though,
to the people of silence who lay below.
For those that live and breathe now are too weak to be stirred
by the cordless symphonies of ones unheard.
The day of the silent people shall soon fade to dusk.
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20x20x16
Materials:
steel, magnets, cotton line
A dismemberment of consciousness occurs in the moments in which traumatic stimuli are observed. Upon encounter a portion of the main body of consciousness separates, forming a secondary body devoted to the containment and preservation of the stimuli. This secondary body of consciousness, in serving its new task of containment, acts as a vessel separate from the main body. Repeated encounters with traumatic stimuli result in the creation of many new stimuli containment vessels and an increasing dismemberment of the main body of consciousness.
72x72x16
Materials:
steel, rope, plastic bags, grommets, walnut, 3D printed bullet, slice of bread, glass, brick, rusted nail, Bible
An unblemished fruit, provides a stark contrast to the dark, metal vessel that contains it. Immiscible forms of water and oil point to a sacramental importance, and serve to heighten the contrast between the four materials. A pungent smell of motor oil reveals the perversion of the sacramentals, contaminating the whole of the creation.
14x12x12
Materials:
steel, plaster, water, motor oil
In the silent moments after Christ’s broken corpse is taken down from the cross, it becomes the absolute objectification of suffering. A vessel into which every tear of humanity is poured. Christ’s body is crushed by the anguish of humanity, and it is in Christ’s suffering and death that we are united.
The abstraction of the body allows for the viewer to project on to the form their own experience and vision of suffering.
48x48x36
Materials:
cardboard, plaster, wood, chicken wire, fabric acrylic paint
We are spiritual beings tethered to a material existence. Our lives are sustained through constant consumption of materials produced, reaped, and stored. The storage of our sustenance affords a kind of freedom, one in which our time is able to be dedicated elsewhere. This freedom is not absolute however, as we remain tethered, no longer to the sustenace of our existence, but to the artificial structure that we have made ourselves reliant upon.
30x36x12
Materials:
MDF, wire, muslin, gesso, yarn, steel, wheat
The bones of the animal consumed lie in the earth. Released from the cycle of labor and life, its body no longer has need for energy and nourishment. That energy now has become flesh of the one who has consumed. An untouched yoke confronts the receiver of flesh.
36x48x24
Materials:
douglas fir, steel, earth, cow rib bone
(30th Recitation - Computer to Computer)
Created darkness over the oven and sweeping over there and there was darkness of the water from the separated water into a single kind of plant every day and illuminate and illuminate the darkness and the abundance of monsters. Preacher and creature made very good in the air all day completed the seventh day completed the seventh day the seventh day.
1x8.5x11
Materials:
paper, bolts, computer