VERONICA EVANEGA ARTIST STATEMENT Multidisciplinary Artist
The connective tissue which transforms my work is in expanding the process of scale. The maquettes, as the primary small-scale massing of a structure, I view as my infants of the developed work. Infants are precious beings. The value placed in the smaller works or photographic studies progress as relief sculpture, free-standing sculpture, interior architectural forms and ultimately large scale functional structures. Much of their underpinnings are centered around the early philosophies of constructivism. Principles behind this genre equate to a geometric abstraction akin to industrial assemblage of composition in sculpture and architecture. This movement seeded Bauhaus and De Stijl while stemming from Cubism and Futurism constructs. I have a penchant for found objects which emerge in the work. These are juxtaposed against simple shapes of hardwood specimens and the cool stealth texture of metals. Formally I’d like the work to represent a deference towards preservation and appreciation for live materials which coexist in nature. My use of little found “gems” or common construction materials are a modest gesticulation in tune with our historic development of the industrialized world. The pieces develop in the flow and ebb of creativity and sometimes manifest themselves into more interactive objects. That is the true goal; to connect to the hearts, minds and lives of the living through the Visual Arts.
BIO: Neo-Constructivist sculptor & Multidisciplinary Artist, Veronica Evanega has spent the bulk of her years investigating the interconnectivity of how materials and shapes intertwine their relationship to our past, present, and future through earth based, social political arguments. Her work has evolved through film, photography, costume, functional interior architecture, and sculpture. Her early years were spent in NYC studying a multidisciplinary field of the arts at Parsons School of Design, The New School for Social Research, Institute of Audio Research, and School of Visual Arts. Her later work through her SUNY architecture, construction management, visual arts and urban planning degrees have evolved the process and materials in which she currently works in her Hudson Valley workshop. She accepts studio visits by appointment and through varied art community open studio events.
