Anita Jung

For many years I have utilized local craft and hardware stores, every day and readily available materials along with the creative waste materials generated by the making of unknown things discovered in dumpsters to construct my works of art. Found surfaces, repetitive patterns and designs are common in my work: shapes, often fashioned by CNC tools and computers, embody the cold precision of technology and the grid that then become faltering, vulnerable forms separated from their intended use and subsequently thrown away. I recognize these materials as imperfectly beautiful, embodying an awkward abstraction. Repurposing these objects results in an acceptance of their and my cumbersome existence. I seek out the hidden patterns that determine, chart and map our everyday existence, the dialogues that exist within the between spaces of our being.

Iowa