CHRIS SICATBIO Chris Sicat was born in Angeles City, Philippines, attended the Otis Art Institute and Parsons School of Design before receiving an M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art in 1994. He has had solo shows in Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Ventura, and Manila, Philippines. He has exhibited widely throughout the Bay Area and Southern California as well as in New York and Mexico City. Chris currently resides in San Jose. STATEMENT Contemplation and play is the source to my work... a stream to the unknown and a reflecting embodiment. Drawing a line after another line until there is an infinite amount of lines... becoming a collective mass of markings. From the beginning the process of transforming natural found objects into sculptural forms instills upon me a transcending experience. Thru my observation, that engagement guides me from conceptual ideas to art object. The time-consuming process fills me with a sense of attainment and compassion, and a testimony of the inner perspective to tangential realism. Though I work in a state of confidence, employing both traditional and unorthodox applications, my unconscious emerges thru the stream of the work. The physical, repetitive nature of this work frees my direction and provides surprises for tranquil moments and infinite movements in the organic grains and forms of the woods. The C series of graphite on wood sculptures investigate this natural meditative process of accumulative mark making. By repeatedly drawing parallel lines with a graphite pencil on selected natural and manmade objects, it creates continuous, fully saturated, luminous dark graphite surfaces. The rhythm of this process helps to quiet the invariable cycle of over analysis and rethinking in the art making process. PRESS BILL MATTICK, CHRIS SICAT, REENIE CHARRIÈRE, SFBG, 3 AUG 10
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