It’s what you make of it
the sculpture of bennett sewell
October 13 - November 12, 2016
coolspace @ artspace
Sculptor Bennett Sewell just can’t let sleeping dogs lie, so he glues, nails, and embellishes wood, aluminum and found objects to create intiricate canine sculptures that illustrate the lives, loves and human hardships of the people he meets every day.
STATEMENT FROM THE ARTIST
My art is my way to bring to the viewer observations and ideas about the human experience; about our little bubble of personal reality. To do this I create a statue and a story. The statue is made of found objects, metal and wood, put together in a different way. It’s a metaphor for us, for we create ourselves from that which we have found (learned) put together in a different way. Each part of the statue that is reused has utility and beauty as it did in the past. It’s the same for the ideas that we reuse to create who we are.
The stories are written to help, to add color and complexity, and a heavy dose of humor if possible so as to produce an emotional and insightful response in the viewer. I rotate everything around dogs, they’re the straw man because most humans relate to most dogs and most dogs relate to most humans. And that might be what the human experience is mostly about, how we relate to each other.
So enjoy and take away that which you wish.
