Doris Arkin works with found construction materials, hardware supplies, and abandoned debris that undergo a contextual transformation in her studio. These harsh materials are not anonymous; rather, they are treated as a mess comprised of thousands of events, a natural resource. Their appearance in her work is an intuitive byproduct of frequent random encounters. Each material is processed by Arkin in a wounding and strenuous sculptural process, to create a deceiving effect of seducing softness. The duality of her sculptural objects lays in the way their meaning changes when observed from changing distances.   Arkin’s sculptures contain the accumulation of … Continue reading Doris Arkin