Chuck Iffland
Mad Monkey Studio
3820 West Valley Road
Chimacum, Washington 98325
Telephone: 360.732.6824
iffland@pobox.com
www.chuckiffland.com
Stone/steel/wood sculpture
Demonstration:
“Sculptures will be in different stages of completion, and my process will be explained and/or demonstrated.”
Directions to studio:
From Port Townsend: (Highway)19 to Chimacum. Right at blinking yellow light (West Valley Road) before Chimacum School – 4 miles down West Valley (before Gibbs Lake Road) on right.
Artist statement:
My current work explores the psychological nature of the human condition via human form and juxtapositions. I view the art making process through an expressive, archeological/historical and situational (place) lens.
I usually start with carved, molded or cast cores done in the automatic tradition and under the shadow of an idea or an emotion that dominates a current state of being (in both collective and individual sense). I use locally found materials, i.e. stone,wood or cast earth/concrete. I then construct homes/houses/shelters/cages for the artifacts.
I carve or cast again using local materials to inbed the place in the work.
My current lines of inquiry have to do with the forgotten, shelter, and abandonment. In the past my work has explored monuments, cages, ancestors, technotopia, violence, lost children, icons, modern/primitive, nature/urban and borders.