Vincent Hawley
Vincent Wil Hawley is an American artist. He works in numerous mediums, including metal, oil paint, ink and acrylic to create large-scale sculpture, wearable art and abstract and realistic paintings.
Artist Biography
Vincent Wil Hawley is an American artist. He works in numerous mediums, including metal, oil paint, ink, and acrylic, to create large-scale sculptures, wearable art, and abstract and realistic paintings. A common theme throughout his work is the use of abstract gestural movement. Born in 1983, Vincent received his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, in 2006. He went on to study in Florence, Italy. Living in Italy for several years, he studied with multiple masters in various mediums. He has exhibited in galleries and has worked in private collections across the United States and Europe. His pieces are also part of public collections in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Vincent currently lives and works in Lambertville, New Jersey
Artist Statement
I explore this transcending concept of the infinite and time as a vessel by using specific shapes–specifically, a hyperbolic paraboloid- in my body of work. A vessel can be something that ferries or contains, and time can be manipulated and finite. A hyperbolic paraboloid is a vessel transporting and/or holding along its planer surface. The surface can hold something stagnant (indefinitely or definite), such as Gold, which can also hold or transport light and information. Raised or hammered from a flat metal sheet, I have taken the linear and created the infinite. I have taken the infinite and made the finite. Using light and physical objects, I have mixed the physical and non-tangible to create a form that transports and holds. I used a Korean process known as Keum-Boo in the blackened pieces I created. This process entails fusing a thin pure gold sheet to the surface of fine silver. This creates a bond that can be soldered and worked as a single metal. The blackening is an acid that etches into the silver but does not touch the gold. These pieces of gold or “light” are trapped in the void of light in the Acheron that makes up the hyperbolic paraboloid. These pieces are trapped in the starless sky of the infinite, creating the finite in an infinite existence.
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