GREGORY NANGLE    Statement

Resides:  Pennsylvania

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          The work I have selected for this show is somewhat of a pastiche of themes that I have used in my work over the last ten years. These works chronicle the fascination I have with both consumerist culture, and with imperfection. The common theme is imperfection if I had to boil it down. I have always been intrigued by sets of things, by repetition, and by symmetry. The compulsive urge to count things such as spokes on a wheel, or looking at patterns on fabric, hold a great deal of power in its manifestation. This obsession creates an intense motivation for me to explore the theme in a more literal manner. Imperfection as a concept is inversely proportionate to the aesthetic of consumerist culture in many ways, thus acting to define it more through contrast. Contrast in the sense that it goes directly against the very idea of uniformity, mass production and accessibility. The objects I produce are not flawless, they are flawed as their creator and viewers alike are flawed. I feel it's a bit more intellectually honest to promote the flaws, rather than the inherent perfection of an object. When I see something that is in disrepair, my first urge is to bring it back into parity. By seeing an object in a flawed state it may only serve as a way to see just how beautiful it may be. You see its true individual form, its true spirit, when it is broken.

-gregory nangle, spring 2009.