RAY NEUFELD

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

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All of my artwork begins and ends with drawing.  In addition to my use of traditional drawing materials, I explore elements of line and shape through sculpture adn installation as drawings in space.  Whether working woth reanimated, reclaimed objects or with projected video, I create site-specific, confrontational work.  While created with a formalist's eye for clarity and an expressionist's sense of process, the resulting conceptual work transcends an intellectual analysis and warrants emotional interpretation as well.  Further inspection and introspection exposes a bleaker side to the seeemingly nostalgic and whimsical.  Shell-forms, waterless pools, dry fire hose, folded paper shark egg sacs -- all rely upon absense for their visual strength.  The empty vessels allude to both the mind and to the body, human or otherwise.  Through this physical investigation I reference memory and loss. I risk evoking nostalgia in order to reinvent the familiar, to provoke reflection, and to inspire change in our view of the everyday.