{"id":776,"date":"2018-11-08T15:38:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T22:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/artmuseum\/?p=776"},"modified":"2024-12-13T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T19:30:20","slug":"circuitous-sculpture-by-todd-volz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/artmuseum\/circuitous-sculpture-by-todd-volz-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Circuitous: Sculpture by Todd Volz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><\/h4>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-776 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-portrait-image-sm'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ffa-307.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ffa-307-150x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-portrait-image-sm size-portrait-image-sm\" alt=\"abstract post-industrial sculpture by ffa-307 by Todd Volz. mixed media in ceramic\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ffa-307-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ffa-307-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ept-01-13.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ept-01-13-150x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-portrait-image-sm size-portrait-image-sm\" alt=\"A Post-industrial sculpture titled ept-01-13, by Todd Volz. ceramic and mixed media\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ept-01-13-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-ept-01-13-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-712'>\n\t\t\t\tA Post-industrial  sculpture titled ept-01-13, by Todd Volz\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-4we-02-13.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-4we-02-13-150x225.jpg\" class=\"attachment-portrait-image-sm size-portrait-image-sm\" alt=\"A Post-industrial sculpture titled 4we-02-13, by Todd Volz. ceramic and mixed media\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-4we-02-13-150x225.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/volz-todd-4we-02-13-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-711'>\n\t\t\t\tA Post-industrial sculpture titled 4we-02-13, by Todd Volz. ceramic and mixed media\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h2>Exhibition Dates: February 5 \u2013 March 29, 2019<\/h2>\n<h3>Artist Presentation: March 29, 2019, 4:00 PM<\/h3>\n<p>In this exhibit, Volz \u2014a professional artist and educator from Boulder, Colorado \u2014 shares his recent work with the NAU and Northern Arizona community.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-967 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLOSE-UP-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/CLOSE-UP-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/CLOSE-UP-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/CLOSE-UP-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/CLOSE-UP-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/CLOSE-UP-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/339\/CLOSE-UP.jpg 1105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Drawing inspiration from the forms and surfaces of antique medical devices, farm machinery, and domestic appliances, Volz\u2019s surface\u00a0treatments recall a spectrum of industrial materials from frosted glass to rusting steel. His skillfully crafted Post-industrial ceramic sculptures, installations, and functional objets d\u2019art evoke the fantastical and reveal the artist\u2019s spirit of inventiveness and ingenuity.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The work is a product of my desire to be engaged in a creative process of posing questions and solving problems.\u00a0 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-Todd Volz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition Dates: February 5 \u2013 March 29, 2019 Artist Presentation: March 29, 2019, 4:00 PM In this exhibit, Volz \u2014a professional artist and educator from Boulder, Colorado \u2014 shares his recent work with the NAU and Northern Arizona community. 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