SELECTED SCULPTURE AND ASSEMBLAGE PIECES

I started out in ceramics, but fell in love with painting in art school and never looked back! Sculpture and assemblage have always run parallel to my painting practice, a different grammar for the same obsessions. These works are built from accumulated material: found objects, fiber, textile, rope, wire, cement, rock and wood and cast forms that carry the weight of use and time. Where painting asks me to think in gesture and surface, sculpture asks me to think in space and mass, in the relationship between objects and the silence around them. Each piece is an act of composition, not unlike a poem, where the arrangement of elements creates meaning that no single element could hold alone.

Many of these works emerged from the same conceptual territory over the years, exploring how physical material can serve as a vessel for language, narrative, and personal history. My Uncle Conway “Jiggs” Pierson was a renown potter and raku artist. He influenced me from an early age as I was able to be around his work often as a chile. He passed when I was 10 years old but his DNA runs thick through my veins. I also studied under sculptor William Catling at Azusa Pacific University and that influence lives in my attention to form, tension, and the way an object can carry presence without explanation. These are not decorative objects. They are arguments made in three dimensions, about loss, accumulation, beauty, and the stubborn persistence of making.

Whether rendered in mixed media assemblage or cast and hand constructed forms, each sculptural piece in this selected collection reflects a practice rooted in abstract expressionism, poetic inquiry, and a deep belief that art is one of the primary ways we make sense of being alive.