Orientation A

17’ 2” x 13’ 4” x 7’ 3”

Fabricated steel, cast iron

2015

2015 Hot Metal Artist/Coordinator

Artist Statement

My studio practice is dependent on the physical engagement with materials and processes. I legitimize and promote my labor as integral to the sculptural experience. My processes are a direct confrontation of their media and exploration of the manipulation of stubborn materials. The materiality is paradoxically both a critique of the impersonal value of industrial production and the humanistic connectedness to objects. It is both sincere and sarcasm, intimate and anonymous.

The Harris Project 

27’ x 42’ x 15’

Steel, cable, rubber tubing, canvas heating duct

2011

2011 Open Studio Fellow

Araan Schmidt

Born: Iowa City, IA, USA, 1982

Resides: Alfred, NY, USA

Education

BFA, Kansas City Art Institute

MFA, University of Minnesota