Mike Shaffer

Veronica’s Porch

partially decomposed wood

55″ x 27″ x 25″

2020

$1,000

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Artist Statement

My interests are widespread including the fundamental question of what art is, the whole picture, theoretically and beyond—art versus non-art, and the philosophy of what it is that qualifies something to be art. I like abstraction and objects associated with popular culture. My overall approach centers on conceptual work but I spend a lot of time with sculpture and painting that incorporate elements of length as seen in a series of works involving lines and grids on canvas and a series of vertical towers based on a horizontal-vertical format that embraces log cabin-like features and forms suggestive of memorials and monuments.