MICHAEL STECKY

Using repurposed materials and labour-intensive craft, Stecky creates sculpture, paintings, videos, audio works and convergences of those media.

 

In his artwork Stecky has a strong interest in creating aesthetically compelling objects, using a finely developed and idiosyncratic craftsmanship focused on a refined use of colour, pattern, and movement.

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His work centers around ideas of collecting and cataloging materials to use in compositions that reflects a distorted nostalgia in its reinterpretation of modernist practices.

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Building upon the ruins of the materials’ origins, disruption - as a primary influencer - is applied to abstract the assemblages, pattern making and formations.

 

Hidden beneath, but guiding the forms, sit banal images of landscapes (puzzle series), TV sitcoms (F******S 04 20) and paint by number paintings.