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During my passage as a studio artist, I have produced bodies of work in painting, photography, film, ceramics, and sculpture; I usually have a few series of works going at any given time. I am nurtured best by sculpture for it provides the broadest boundaries in terms of viable process, and I am constantly seeking to expand the techniques that I use in my work.
 
My work has consistently dealt with transformational journeys, both physical and spiritual, suggested by mythic figures, objects relic to those journeys, and objects empowered themselves to make those journeys. With a love for pure function and the patina that comes from prolonged use, my works hint at a vague  mythology derived from a variety of influences: insect morphology, ancient and tribal art, hydro and aerodynamic forms, mechanical engineering, the history of space exploration, fractal geometry, robotics, SETI, comic books, popular science fiction, and toys. I want the work to have a pop-cultural appeal, but there is an underlying anxiety which debates the question of our survival against multiple apocalyptic scenarios. A survival that is obviously threatened by, but also may be insured by runaway technologies, and a drive towards supernal knowledge.

 

atomic - dan askew
Coccoon - cast iron
Dan Askew - airborn
airborn - steel
Dan Askew - aero ektar
Aero Ektar - found object assemblage
Dan Askew - edge of construct
At the Edge of the Construct - kinetic construction, acrylic on tar paper
Dan Askew - ganglion
Ganglion - found object assemblage
Dan Askew - oracle
Oracle - kinetic construction
Dan Askew - toddler detail
Toddler Box - robotic construction