Bob Pavlik
Litchfield county, CT
metal, wood, other
I am an artist, professor, and former architect, based in northwest Connecticut.
My sculpture practice is rooted in experiments with materials and novel methods of making, often focusing on connections, joinery, and assemblies. It blends analog hand-craft techniques with advanced computational design methods and computer-controlled fabrication equipment. It engages surrounding space and challenges what it means to be an “object.”
My practice operates in dual registers. First, it is important to me that my work is immediately accessible and engaging. My art should be interesting in its thingness, without an audience having to understand complex narratives. Secondly, the materiality and forms in my work are in fact the outcomes of complicated webs of personal experiences, identities, and relationships to technology and the environment. My work seeks to interrogate each of these overlapping domains. The complex narratives in my work are backstories that are not overtly presented, rather they are intellectual tools that are deeply embedded in the process of creation. My work emerges from rigorous questioning and equal degrees of playfulness and wonder.
My sculpture practice is rooted in experiments with materials and novel methods of making, often focusing on connections, joinery, and assemblies. It blends analog hand-craft techniques with advanced computational design methods and computer-controlled fabrication equipment. It engages surrounding space and challenges what it means to be an “object.”
My practice operates in dual registers. First, it is important to me that my work is immediately accessible and engaging. My art should be interesting in its thingness, without an audience having to understand complex narratives. Secondly, the materiality and forms in my work are in fact the outcomes of complicated webs of personal experiences, identities, and relationships to technology and the environment. My work seeks to interrogate each of these overlapping domains. The complex narratives in my work are backstories that are not overtly presented, rather they are intellectual tools that are deeply embedded in the process of creation. My work emerges from rigorous questioning and equal degrees of playfulness and wonder.
