Werner Sun
My studio sits on a flowing meadow dotted with colorful outdoor mobiles. Come visit their natural habitat, then step inside to see their indoor cousins, made of metal, paper, and air.
CONTACT INFORMATION
- phone:
- 607-227-6795
- e-mail:
- thecolortree@gmail.com
- website:
- www.thecolortree.net
ADDRESS
532 Enfield Center Road W., Ithaca, NY 14850STUDIO DIRECTIONS
Take Rt. 79 west out of Ithaca. After about 12 miles, at the border of Schuyler County, turn left onto Buck Hill Rd. Go 1.3 miles and take another left onto Enfield Center Rd. (unpaved). My studio is the third driveway on the left.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I have always been inspired by the mobiles of Alexander Calder, and I try to capture the same lightness and grace in my own work. Being a particle physicist, I seek to bring invisible ideas to life and to give them tangible form. Mapping the space between the poetic and the analytic is the unspoken subject of my work.
My kinetic sculptures are abstract and geometric, ranging in size from miniature wall mobiles to room-filling installations, and I employ a variety of materials: metal, wood, stone, polymer clay, paper, and recycled objects. My digital compositions are scenes of everyday life, deconstructed and reassembled into images
that are both intriguing and familiar. My work has appeared in several solo and group exhibitions in the Ithaca area, in venues such as The Corners Gallery, The Upstairs Gallery, and the Tompkins County Public Library.
Recently, I have been incorporating digital images into my mobiles, which are now made from fine art paper with archival inkjet prints. I aim to create three-dimensional objects that are both organized and flexible, with a hint of instability. Indeed, it is this balance between order and chaos, control and movement,
that animates my work and my imagination.
