Adrian Scalzo

BFA Sculpture

Website: adrianscalzo.com

ARTIST STATEMENT: Adrian Scalzo is a mixed-media sculpture artist who, having grown up with an artistic family in the Washington DC metropolitan area, spent a good portion of his childhood experiencing the rich offerings of the many cultural institutions in the region. A key aspect of Scalzo’s present practice centers on ideas of selfhood and is expressed through the wide variety of materials he employs in his works. In ME Scalzo explores his concept of “self” through a sculptural self-portrait displaying the artist’s full likeness to encompass not only his physical features but also imagines a visual representation of his thoughts. To achieve this, Scalzo presents us with a clear resin cast of his head which allows the viewer to peer into his brain, represented here by a conglomeration of matted and intertwined yarn. Together with the transparent shell this forms an abstract representation of “self.”