THE DREAMETTE :: John Orth

John Orth’s work offers the urgency of human gesture against a backdrop of inevitable evanescence and mystery. His sculptural work fuses organic and inorganic materials to create a hybridized world of sensuous artifice, in which the bright orange of a tangerine and an extension cord share a complex root system. These pieces invite the viewer to imagine squeezing, smelling, stroking them, yet they maintain the formal reserve of the catalogued and preserved. A shared visual language ripples across the surface of all participants, human and otherwise, as evidence of this exchange.