Artist Statement

WALLY works through a variety of mediums, found, scavenged, and upcycled, to create pieces spanning from classical to nonsensical. He has a unique fascination with the use of negative space and the energy within living forms. His sculptures incorporate line, balance, proportion, and sometimes motion to interpret each creation's unique personality.

Bio

WALLY (American b. 1964) is an abstract constructivist artist working in materials ranging from found metal, wood, stone, to epoxy and plaster. Born in Hollywood Florida, his family moved every two years including stops in New York, Texas, Maryland and finally New Jersey to finish High School. Although curiosity and interest in the arts started at a young age, the pursuit of an artist’s life was discouraged throughout high school as “frivolous” or “not important.”

While finishing a Bachelor of Science in Psychology at Syracuse University in the mid-eighties, WALLY started elective art classes focused on classical figurative forms. He moved to the mountains of Colorado in 1989 and started Waste Solutions, a recycling/construction/trash business in Aspen and the Roaring Fork Valley, where he started scavenging materials from junk yards, construction dumpsters and natural settings alike. After 20 years of trash & dumpster diving, he sold the business in 2009 to focus his continued pursuit of finding art in scrapes from the natural & industrial worlds.

Self taught, he participated at the renowned MARBLE/marble Symposium (03-06), and then the launch of WALLY STUDIO in 2007 in Carbondale outside Aspen Colorado. His sculptures vary across a wide spectrum of mediums and influences that include Camille Claudel, Henry Moore, David Smith, Anthony Caro, Alexander Calder, Jean Tinguely and Deborah Butterfield.

His works can be found featured in public spaces as well as complementing private interior collections across the US.