DAVID FOUGHT

“Metal coat hangers are burned red-hot, cooled and hammered into straight rods, then re-bent into various flat shapes. When two flat shapes, say a triangle or a square, are intersected, three-dimensional negative spaces are created, then plaster is used to fill some of the negative spaces to emphasize mass. For me, the tarnished, blackened and patinaed metal rods and flawed, blemished plaster with random oxidation stains evokes imperfection, aging and impermanence. In a synergy between the object and its context within space, these works offer an engagement with the physical world finding objecthood in the way color often locates emotion.”

• David Fought

David Fought received an M.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA, and a B.A. from the New College of California, San Francisco, CA. Previously an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, his work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States including solo and group exhibitions in California, Florida, Texas, North Carolina, and Oregon among others. Fought has been included in international group exhibitions in Japan and Mexico as well as exhibitions at the Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Rocky Mount Arts Center, Rocky Mount, NC; and the Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO, among others.