CURIOSER will feature the work of Eamon Brown, Emily Fleisher, Ayumi Ishii, Dan Langston, Andy Ness, Gunnar Norquist, and Chana Powell. This show includes all seven of the second-year graduate students in the RISD sculpture program. Together their work presents a stunning visual contrast: ranging in content from realistically rendered figures to abstract patterns. However, taken as whole, it is clear that these artists all share a marked proficiency in craftsmanship.

Eamon Brown uses common objects and materials to investigate the idea that pattern moves through histories and cultures in an expansive geological motion. His work draws heavily on psychedelic and Op Art practices of overlapping systems of replication to create visual tension.

Emily Fleisher reinterprets everyday objects by juxtaposing them in a way that creates fictitious, logically unfeasible narratives. She is currently working on several pieces that reconfigure elements from interior spaces into patterns that create a sort of domestic camouflage.

Ayumi Ishii’s work reflects on the changing perception of the human body as it is influenced by modern science and philosophy. Her human casts retain fine details of the skin while completely obliterating the overarching form.

Dan Langston’s work explores the eroding boundary between the organic and the synthetic. His hybrid human- synthetic forms contemplate both positive and negative outcomes of our ever-advancing technological abilities.

The work of Andy Ness seeks to give shape to the ineffable moments of life by imbuing quotidian, ambiguous, or otherwise meaningless objects with intense significance through their position in relation to each other. An overlying interest in ideas concerning dependency and interdependency permeates his recent explorations.

Gunnar Norquist's work explores the complexity of gender culture within both society and the art establishment. He uses material with decidedly masculine connotations to compose fanciful hunting trophies of fictional animals.

Chana Powell uses a wide range of materials and techniques in an exploration of the nature of the human intellect. She seeks to impart her work with variable significance that can be appreciated on both a conceptual and formal level.