ABOUT
BIO
Curtis Singmaster has been making art for over two decades. He has lived and worked on both the east coast and the west coast and now resides in Colorado. Curtis also does freelance graphic design work and teaches art.
Curtis received a BFA from the University of Denver and the Instituto Allende and an MFA in Sculpture from The Rhode Island School of Design with a teaching certificate from Brown University. He has exhibited his art throughout the United States and Internationally. In 2010 he received the Boston Young Contemporaries Award, and was one of three New England graduate students chosen to participate in the Agriculture Encounters Sculpture show. Curtis has received critical press attention for his work in the Black Sheep Show, Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition, Agriculture Encounters Sculpture and Art In The Park. He has had solo shows at Booklyn Artist Alliance and the Urban Institute of Contemporary art in Grand Rapids, MI. His work is in several private collections including the Rhode Island School of Design and The Urban Institute of Contemporary Art.
WORK: UNCOMPLICATED EVOLUTION
My work evolves from energy, wit, curiosity, and humor.
My approach to objects, images, words and material is restless and unconventional.
Sly, silly, rambunctious, deadpan, average.
I like to create things that possess the possibility of changing ones perception, and discovering unforeseen potential.
I have a passion for old techniques such as upholstery, and joinery, and loud colors such as pink.
I contrast the two, along with contemporary objects and ideas.
I like using found objects.
I often apply the “right” material to the “wrong” technique, or vise versa.
My work works when it creates a moment of pause. It gives people a place to go or an opportunity to contemplate. Where they go or what they contemplate is not important. I strive for a combination of physical simplicity and conceptually rich. Uncomplicated. How can I say a lot with as little as possible?
Being smart about
A moment of huh?! Can I laugh at this, or is this serious? Smart/Dumb
Something that needs to be regurgitated, revisited. Cyclical, but simple.
Where does your head go? Can I tickle out that immature dirty brain of yours?
How is the current state of the world impacting your reaction to the work?
Titles are conceptual triggers, additional layers, alternative paths, NOT clarification.
I want to say a lot with a little.