Andrew Clausen (US, 1977)

My practice incorporates contemporary engineering materials and techniques to produce delicate works that capture an atmosphere of stillness and material honesty. Cast concrete serves as a matrix for compositions that include canvas, resin, graphite and 3D-printed composite polymers. The process begins in the realm of 2-dimensional graphical design and is transformed through digital fabrication into subtle reliefs and silhouettes that are echoed onto the surface via the cast concrete. The alchemy of the curing concrete also plays an important role – in contrast to the predictability and precision of the formwork, it is an organic transformation which opens the work to chance and the unexpected.