Fusing Experiments, 2019-
Metamorphosis of various mineral and material bands within the earth is the result of extreme temperatures and pressures. Heat is one of the most important tools of humankind - with careful application of this force, we cook our food, keep our bodies comfortable in inhospitable climates, and create all glass, ceramic, metallic, and plastic materials with which we build our world. Heat is sometimes used as a source of electric power conversion, pumping current into our devices. Applying heat to various materials is a simple 1:1 procedure that calls to mind the plethora of possibilities within the materials surrounding us.
Fusing Experiments, 2019-
Metamorphosis of various mineral and material bands within the earth is the result of extreme temperatures and pressures. Heat is one of the most important tools of humankind - with careful application of this force, we cook our food, keep our bodies comfortable in inhospitable climates, and create all glass, ceramic, metallic, and plastic materials with which we build our world. Heat is sometimes used as a source of electric power conversion, pumping current into our devices. Applying heat to various materials is a simple 1:1 procedure that calls to mind the plethora of possibilities within the materials surrounding us.
Sam Horowitz
Sam Horowitz (b. 1988, Vermont, USA) is a futurist, sculptor, educator, and mad scientist working in Birmingham, Alabama. Horowitz holds degrees from Alfred University (MFA, 2020) and Bard College (BA, 2010), and has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the US, including a solo show at Syracuse University in 2012, and a group exhibit at South River Art Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been an artist in residence at Sloss Furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama, on Governors Island in Manhattan, and at Salem Art Works, in the New York Adirondacks. Horowitz has fabricated sculptures for a number of clients, worked as a personal chef, and designed and built custom furniture.
Much of Horowitz’s studio research is inspired by investigating perspective and material. Within his work, concepts of geology, state change, and philosophy merge and conform to question duration and shared experience. Horowitz synthesizes recognizable materials and locations in states of flux —the cooling of molten iron, freezing and subsequent melting of ice, and location tags in Instagram— to collaborate within an artwork, physically and digitally recording gesture, circumstance, and input. He finds a balance between fine craft and found texture, playing carefully worked surfaces against those left weathered by processes biological, meteorological, and industrial alike.
Rule-making is common in Horowitz’s practice; in order to allow intrinsic and native qualities of a given material to surface within a piece, he employs aleatoric and iterative processes. Through material translation and community action, he presents possible futures, connects current trends, and fabricates past histories. These reflections are intended to provoke change within an audience, and assist in communal becoming “with.”