We stumbled in on this show of Nathan Skiles’ work yesterday. The colors alone are fantastic, the clocks are genius. The fact that he uses foam rubber is just plain cool.
From the show’s press release on the Sloan Fine Art site:
In Black Forest / White Lightning, Nathan Skiles presents a collection of densely adorned cuckoo clocks, ranging from the intricately elegant to the over-the-top outrageous, as a means to invigorate his method of associative image making and feed his interest in the incongruous. While the clocks lend themselves easily to observations on the convenient clichés and “rules” of time and space, specific (and repeated) themes within the works expand beyond immediate associations and evolve into musings on the self-consciousness and limits popularly ascribed to these rules. And with his innovative use of foam rubber as his primary material, Skiles tricks the eye and obliterates the baggage of immediate recognition, further challenging his audience to look beyond the immediate and investigate the core issues presented in his work.
I shot some images of his clocks myself, they’re posted here for you to enjoy:
More of Nathan Skiles’ work.