My work is a response to our environment: the constructed, industrially-fabricated world that we inhabit. Utilizing both additive and reductive processes, I deconstruct and recontextualize objects in order to gain and illustrate a deeper understanding of our environment. By employing the power of gestalt, multiplicity converts banal objects into points of contemplation. Through my considered treatment of these commonplace materials, the quotidian can be experienced in new ways.

Specifically, I am concerned with architecture and the urban fabric. Appropriating construction and domestic materials, which form the basis of my ephemeral installations, activate unused and overlooked areas. Being site-responsive, these installations integrate site, material, and form.

The tangibly perilous nature of my work engages the public on a gut level: leading viewers to interact with the work not only conceptually, but also—and more importantly—physically.

bio

Jacob Stanley is a currently teaching and attending school in Knoxville, TN at the University of Tennessee. His widely divergent research interests include quantum mechanics, chair ergonomics/design and industrial design. Using banal objects to create imposing temporal installations as well as deconstructing familiar objects Stanley questions the paraphernalia of our daily lives.   He has been awarded the Emison Fellowship, Terry Burnette residency award, and has been an artist in residency in Beijing, China. He has shown in Tennessee, Indiana and at Florence County Museum in South Carolina.