Katherine Stanek, sculptor

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Artist's Statement

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My work is emotionally inspired and viscerally created to capture the essence of my message.  Constructed in concrete and premised on destruction as a vehicle for creation; my material and process are integral to the final image.  Using my custom mix of various cements, aggregates, pigment and other additives, I compose in every stage of development; modeling cement like clay, molding it like plaster and carving it like stone until honesty of content and craft are achieved.  When the concrete fractures and naturally defines a form, it changes from ordinary medium to an object with a life of its own.  This notion that human intervention gives life to an otherwise nonliving entity best describes my relationship with my material and my work. 

Katherine Stanek
Stanek Studios, LLC
Paulsboro, NJ 08066
kstanek@comcast.net