Two dimensional or three—it depends
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In the early 1980s, I began playing with pieces of Styrofoam.
The surface was two-dimensional art, as I applied paper and paint. No perspective. No depth of field. I still create these pieces,
but now on site in Italy where I carve them after they’re cast in marble.
My newest sculpture is more simplified. I fold sheets of aluminum into organic shapes. What was a two-dimensional object becomes three dimensional. Painting one side black and one side white, I consider the question, “What is the front, and what is
the back?
Two dimensional or three—it depends
In the early 1980s, I began playing with pieces of Styrofoam. The surface was two-dimensional art, as I applied paper and paint. No perspective. No depth of field. I still create these pieces, but now on site in Italy where I carve them after they’re cast in marble.
My newest sculpture is more simplified. I fold sheets of aluminum into organic shapes. What was a two-dimensional object becomes three dimensional. Painting one side black and one side white, I consider the question, “What is the front, and what is the back?
© 2025 Jim Conboy. All rights reserved
© 2025 Jim Conboy. All rights reserved