My recent work investigates the processes and materials that compose our built environments. By integrating prefabricated materials with hand reproductions of objects that appear prefabricated, I have sought to familiarize myself with processes of mass production and standardized methods of construction. While trying to convincingly represent true everyday forms, my re-placement of such forms into an environment where they are removed from their conventional roles (through altered scale or orientation) has been about drawing attention to what is hidden in plain sight, and contemplating the psychic and aesthetic power of the objects and structures we live around and within.
Clipboard I, Clipboard II, and Clipboard III (Installation View) – 2010 – Steel, MDF, and plywood 78 x 48 x 18 inches each Clipboard I and Palette (Installation View) – 2010 and 2011 – Steel, MDF, plywood, oak, and fluorescent lights 78 x 48 x 18 inches and 30 x 80 x 10 inches
C A T U -T H A S O O N T H O R N
www.catuthasoonthorn.com born Chantilly, Virginia, 1983
education BA in Psychology, Saint Mary’s College of Maryland, 2006 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 2012
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