"Still Life: Graphite on Paper" - inflatable installation made of sewn tyvek and coated with graphite

 

Entner is conceptually and technically drawn to a multidisciplinary practice involving video, installation, and performance.  “I see myself as a creator of things and situations.”

 

The artist invites a responsive or reactive attitude to his work.  He interrupts a viewer’s familiar experience with a “curiosity…or the results of an experiment” that reflects the absurd.

Artist’s Statement:
Although I am formally trained as a sculptor, I am conceptually and technically drawn to a multidisciplinary studio practice that involves video, installation, performance, drawing, sewing, sound, and painting... as well as the traditional modes of three-dimensional art, most especially wood-working.  My work is driven by ideas or curiosities, and I simply try to find the best tools to address these.

I create works that are the result of play or experimentation, and that range conceptually with my many interests: from children’s literature to aquatic life; women’s underwear to architecture; fire to fly-fishing.  Often the only constant is the importance placed on an imperfect and obsessive craft, whether seen or not, and a sarcastic sense of humor.

As I work on a project, I try to anticipate and plan for the viewers' experience. I want to make viewers aware of themselves as they relate to my art.  I accomplish this by creating a presence of an object or installation that interrupts orintervenes in the passive viewing of a piece and invites an active experience with it. Within the gravitas of atypical art space, I also try to inspire a childlike nostalgia and wonder by engaging the viewer with an object or environment that is fun, funny, playful, awesome, and/or rad.

Piece Statement: 
Suffering from a case of drawing-and-painting envy, I chose to return to Art’s respected traditions and presents my viewer a simple still life.  I composed this Nature Morte of varied forms and subjects in an effort to explore the singular possibilities of the esteemed medium.  This interactive installation or rather interactive drawing invites viewers to navigate and enter the drawn space, creating what I think of as an “allegory of life.”