Exhibition Dates: February 5 – March 29, 2019
Artist Presentation: March 29, 2019, 4:00 PM
Solidly grounded in the Steampunk aesthetic, Volz’s skillfully crafted Post-industrial ceramic sculptures and functional objets d’art evoke the fantastical.
Drawing inspiration from the forms and surfaces of antique medical devices, farm machinery, and domestic appliances, Volz’s surface treatments recall a spectrum of industrial materials from frosted glass to rusting steel. Volz seeks to conjure the “spirit of inventiveness, ingenuity, and whimsy,” through his work.
The work is a product of my desire to be engaged in a creative process of posing questions and solving problems. The mechanical forms and antiqued surfaces that I use are meant to be familiar to engage viewers in a creative process of their own as they attempt to discern the true function of the objects amidst varying levels of real and imagined functionality.
Todd Volz