David Minnery

Consider the last time you visited the dentist and received a novocaine injection. Or recall when your leg fell asleep as you watched television. You felt compelled to poke or prod those areas that lacked sensation and for a moment, parts of your own body seemed alien. David Minnery's work produces a similar effect, taking what is most recognizable to human perception - the body itself - and rendering it radically alien. His disappearing hands and arms, his wall of ears and his numerous oral molds strike the viewer as strange amorphous objects, even the stuff of Roswell Arizona. But a second glance quickly reveals that what you are looking at, in fact, lies forever within six feet of your own vision. His sculptures create a strange gap between the all too familiar and the unrecognizable, a gap that compels viewers to poke and prod those parts of their own body think they know so well.

Andres Zervigon
Professor of Art History