Charles Wilkin
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Charles Wilkin STATEMENT Fundamentally my work investigates the innate struggle between cause and effect. Derived primarily from the study of headlines, sounds bites and idle conversations my assemblages attempt to transpose these disjointed remnants of media overload into tangible yet uncertain analogies. My motivation and objective is simply to mirror our behavior by fusing these cultural fragments into new stories that challenge our collective assumptions and aspirations. Offering in return alternate realities and uninhibited probabilities as a manifesto for absolution. The immediate nature of collage along with the improvisational assembly techniques I employ replicate the frenetic world we live in. By affording nothing more than filtered reflections my work is able to remove itself from the expectations of reality, relying on instinctual instead as a means to analyze and critique our environment. Together these methods bridge the past and present, transforming familiar imagery into mysterious quilt like compositions that expose humanities often misguided ambition for the future. My work is essentially a product of its environment revised daily through a compound perspective of suspicion, conviction and my obsession with the idylically mundane, what remains I hope is a deconstructed record of our exsistance. BIO I was born in Buffalo, New York and began experimenting with collage while studing at the Columbus College of Art and Design, in Columbus, Ohio. I relocated to New York City in June of 2001 and since then my work has been featured in many contemporary fine art and street art magazines, including: Juxtapoz, Rojo and Metropolis. I’ve also exhibited regularly across the U.S. and in select show in Australia and Europe. In 2003 German publisher Gestalten released my first monograph Index-A. I have work in the permanent collections at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany and The Library of Congress in Washington, DC. I’ve also lectured at Parsons School of Design, Savannah School of Art and briefly taught at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio where I received my BFA in 1992. I currently split my time between studios in Brooklyn, New York and the Catskills. ARTIST CONTACT (212) 226-5422 IMAGES
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