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ANDY DALEY
ANDY DALEY is a Los Angeles born folk artist best known for his sculptural assemblage of seemingly disparate items. A process that became most prolific in early 2015, Beginning with the loud, large, and enigmatic. Mechanical Motions, a series of whimsical machines seemingly held back from some vague past industrial era. They have been an ongoing source of confused delight to all who see them. However, due to their sheer size, and the lack of storage, more could not be constructed. Immediate attention was then focused on smaller forms, resulting in Silver Clad Stacks, and Little Dubbers, but his latest series.
Blunt Objects is fundamentally different. These forms are crafted exclusively of brass. He searches out defunct decorative pieces, parts, and pickings from the past century and reworks them into completely new generationally relatable forms. Which are painstakingly solidified using only solid brass fasteners in order to allow for an easy calculation of their weight for future scrap value.
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An honest, loving way to save, and repurpose unique brass forms, by making the current out of the obsolete. Each unique, gently unsettling sculpture, captures the artist’s sense of humor, that strikes a balance between the strangely familiar, and tragically absurd.
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Make some noise for a theater without actors. Absurd Mechanized Sculptures Take to the Stage. Originally conceived as a Performance Art Installation, the unique grouping of machines tells its story in Lights, Action, and sound, while an untrained technician actually attempts to follow the simple operation instructions.
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Little Dubbers are fresh Dubbers! Are cool Dubbers! The whole gang is in the club! Such a likable group of characters, they are always getting into trouble, and all because they like you too. K-Pop Boy Band, shift levers, or t-shirt logos, so easy to get along with. There is excitement whereever they go!
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Inspiration came from a stack of unwashed dishes in the kitchen sink. The "stacks," I have created consist of frames within frames. Delicate forms each looking toward the smaller shape within. Until they focus on an Image of abundance.
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A spiritual invention, the small candle represents what is being given up, and the larger signifies what is aspired to. Can be a useful tool to strengthen personal mythology, facilitate change, and help to illuminate.
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Artist Statement
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Time has taught me, as an artist, if I can get a second, or maybe even a third recycled use out of anything, it is an achievement. That’s why I feel a real challenge when I choose to use the recycling of brass art, as art. Following my new, inspiration, I piece parts together without obliterating their original decorative forms.
I simply join them in unusual ways that still honor the original makers creations, but not their fundamental intent. This is the crux of Blunt Objects, an honest, loving way to save, and repurpose unique brass forms, by making the current out of the obsolete.
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