"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 aluminum. 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. On a formal level, this work questions the nature of a symmetrically based composition, yet one composed of asymmetrical parts. Set in an angular orientation to each other, one of the shape components of the composite pair is crowned by a top perforated by a circular cutout; the second one features a similarly shaped top, albeit this time with a solid protruding disc that mirrors in its dimensions the open oculus of the other. This presentation of a quintessential pairing, one of positive versus negative, or open versus closed, suggests perhaps the duality of any given moment. Painted as it is an 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 an interaction with an 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