Wenda habenicht
New Exhibit in our Satellite Gallery Window - 131 Genesee Street, Utica, NY
On display October 2 - January 24.
On display October 2 - January 24.
Midway Folly
Tunnel
Diptychs
BIO
Born in Elkhart, Indiana, Wenda Habenicht grew up in Boulder, Colorado and attended Beloit College in Wisconsin before moving to New York City to earn her MFA at Columbia University. While living in Brooklyn, she created numerous works of architecturally and/or anthropomorphically derived sculpture, often participatory and many of which were sited outdoors. Wenda’s first large scale outdoor sited work was
built in 1982 at The Midwest Coast, Art and Agriculture in Caledonia, Illinois and was followed by works built and exhibited in the Eastern & Midwestern United States and Canada. After a twenty-two year hiatus from making art, Wenda started taking photographs in 2012 and from there, returned to building sculpture and creating works on paper.
Wenda Habenicht currently lives and works in South Worcester, New York.
built in 1982 at The Midwest Coast, Art and Agriculture in Caledonia, Illinois and was followed by works built and exhibited in the Eastern & Midwestern United States and Canada. After a twenty-two year hiatus from making art, Wenda started taking photographs in 2012 and from there, returned to building sculpture and creating works on paper.
Wenda Habenicht currently lives and works in South Worcester, New York.
Artist Statement
About my sculpture:
Sometimes beginning from a found object, sometimes anthropomorphic and whimsical in nature, and sometimes drawing from a vocabulary of architecture, I build my sculpture through a process of experimentation and discovery. My process is to add, subtract, arrange and balance elements and pieces, looking for a surprise or unexpected consequence. Visually enticing, my sculpture at first glance may look
like some type of apparatus but with no explicit purpose or function. I don’t mind people asking “what is that?” In this way, my sculpture encourages the viewer to explore and ponder its purpose and meaning, and even if ever so slightly, to question and change the way they look at and see the world.
About my diptychs:
My photographic diptychs are two equal size images that I digitally place side-by-side to create one unique photograph. My process is to juxtapose unexpected images to create a work that transforms the subjects into a new context and a new reality. It’s not one image by itself but the relationship with another, making the whole greater than the sum of its parts, that is important in these works.
Sometimes beginning from a found object, sometimes anthropomorphic and whimsical in nature, and sometimes drawing from a vocabulary of architecture, I build my sculpture through a process of experimentation and discovery. My process is to add, subtract, arrange and balance elements and pieces, looking for a surprise or unexpected consequence. Visually enticing, my sculpture at first glance may look
like some type of apparatus but with no explicit purpose or function. I don’t mind people asking “what is that?” In this way, my sculpture encourages the viewer to explore and ponder its purpose and meaning, and even if ever so slightly, to question and change the way they look at and see the world.
About my diptychs:
My photographic diptychs are two equal size images that I digitally place side-by-side to create one unique photograph. My process is to juxtapose unexpected images to create a work that transforms the subjects into a new context and a new reality. It’s not one image by itself but the relationship with another, making the whole greater than the sum of its parts, that is important in these works.
