Stagger, paper & tar, 2009
The objects I create recollect one’s past, submerged experiences. By categorizing, cataloging, binding and concealing, the material forms a narrative we create for ourselves through our experiences. The objects are marked, spliced, split, disassembled, and twisted. Parts are illegible like a memory lost of crucial detail. This work is the evolution of forms and materials that reference a journey.
These works are the remnants of what has been left behind and cast off. They are a fragmentation of time. What are left in the end are the markings of this journey, where the accumulation and experience becomes the image itself.
Diane Sikes earned an MFA in Studio arts in 2000 from Memphis College of Art in Memphis, Tennessee. Her undergraduate work was completed at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee in 1997 where she earned a BFA with an emphasis in sculpture. She is a former member of 500X Gallery in Dallas, Texas.
These works are the remnants of what has been left behind and cast off. They are a fragmentation of time. What are left in the end are the markings of this journey, where the accumulation and experience becomes the image itself.
Diane Sikes earned an MFA in Studio arts in 2000 from Memphis College of Art in Memphis, Tennessee. Her undergraduate work was completed at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee in 1997 where she earned a BFA with an emphasis in sculpture. She is a former member of 500X Gallery in Dallas, Texas.