The art of Ben Dory

ARTIST ALL CAPS. Art title, no 11, 20xx. Black-and-white photography. Description.

MYRA MIMLITSCH-GRAY. Stretched Platters, 2014. Porcelain enamel on fabricated steel. 3 inches x 27 inches x 6 inches.

I explore fracture as an idea, image, and process, conceptualizing material conditions to construct fictions and portraits. My technical methods are deliberate: force and tools displace the metal; residual marks document the process. The trace is conversant with the staged, formal outcome. Together, they reflect ideas about how and why we build things.

Forging is a subject that I interpret through mimicry and sleight. Or it is a practical assertion—the intent to move form forward. The forged ideal is achieved when the original stock disappears, fully transformed into a new image. My work is at times a forgery of the forged, a literal and conceptual fabrication.

I build tension between the familiar glassy skin of enamel and the unconventional form, between gesture and structure in a material parody. The organic process is tempered by a clean, analytical slice.

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MYRA MIMLITSCH-GRAY. Oval Band, 2007. Brass. 10.5 inches x 21 inches x 8 inches.

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