WCFA Artist Talk: Found Object Assemblage with Krzysztof Mathews

A broken toy, a bit of hardware, the housing from a dead appliance. Rhode Island sculptor Krzysztof Mathews has spent more than thirty years seeing what the rest of us throw away and finding creatures inside it.

Mathews is a sculptor, illustrator, and educator whose science ficition and mythology themed assemblage work has won numerous awards. In this illustrated talk he opens up his whole process: how he harvests and sorts discarded material, the tools and safety practices behind the work, techniques for joining and shaping, and how surface treatment turns scrap into something with a face and a personality.

Along the way he’ll show a gallery of his own characters, masks, and animal sculptures.

As he puts it, the work is an active dialogue with pieces themsevles. Talk will be followed by a Q&A.

Register Here: https://warwickcfa.org/