"Inside Out Yellow" Welded Aluminum Sculpture by Michael DesRosiers (2024)

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Artist Michael DesRosiers creates paintings, mixed-media works, and welded aluminum sculptures. Noted for his use of color, DesRosiers' non-objective art … Read more Artist Michael DesRosiers creates paintings, mixed-media works, and welded aluminum sculptures. Noted for his use of color, DesRosiers' non-objective art is as attuned to nature as it is to the complexities of the human psyche. This artist has spent decades in the studio refining his unique sensibility, one that combines the authenticity of the abstract idiom with the emotional impact of vivid color. His work has been widely exhibited in galleries and at international art fairs.

DesRosiers begins a sculpture by conceiving the various components both as compelling individual shapes and subsequently as interrelated parts of a three-dimensional work of art. Once the work has the dynamic interconnections envisioned by the artist, what was a full-scale cardboard model is fabricated in welded aluminum, with close attention to both the placement and the finesse of the welds required to construct the piece. Once completed, the sculpture is surface sanded, resulting in a soft silver texture that highlights the finished form and delivers an eloquent textural presentation of the formational metal. The addition of color is a final determination, whether the work is dressed in a clear coat finish or perhaps painted, with some pieces featuring a combination of both.



“Inside Out Yellow” is part of a sculptural series entitled “Lost and Found Chasing Light Creating Shadow”. Created by artist Michael DesRosiers and fabricated in aluminum, this resultant shadow caster is characterized by two almost identical conjoined shapes, each linked to the other by a midline tubular tether. While one of the pair is crowned by a top perforated with a circular cutout, the other features a protruding disc of a similar dimension that inverts the opening of the other. This presentation of a quintessential pairing, one of positive verses negative, or open versus closed, suggests perhaps the duality of any given moment. Presented as a metaphor is an intersection where the present simultaneously becomes the sealed past, just as it promises an open future. Painted intense yellow, this thought-provoking table sculpture will be as provocative as it is serenely reassuring. Despite a lexicon of simple shapes dominating the formal nature of this piece, a resultant complexity arises from the interaction with the ever-changing ambient light. Using an aluminum construction to cut light and create shadow is the operative mainstay of this work.



This sculpture is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the artist. Simple installation instructions will also be included. See less