City College Art Gallery is proud to present Adon s. Valenziano: Fruiting Bodies Sculpture.
Valenziano draws much of his sculptural vocabulary from the forms found in nature: plants, animals, insects, seedpods, pollen grains, fungi, bones and the human figure. While his visual vocabulary is deeply rooted in the natural world, he also draws vocabulary from the synthetic or machine world. The resulting sculptures are, in part, an attempt to imagine a new ecology – one in which the organic world and the synthetic world exist in a state of symbiosis.
Born in Tucson Arizona but raised in the astonishing natural beauty of northern California’s Mendocino county Adon Valenziano has long admired nature as the most accomplished of all sculptors. Though Adon Valenziano’s sculptures are deeply rooted in forms found in the natural world, his work also references the synthetic or machine world as well as the work of other artists or “the art world.” He is fascinated with symbiosis and hybridity and creating fictive organic/synthetic entities.
While his materials and methods are rooted in the historic art making practices of cast bronze, carved wood and blown glass, his unique work exists somewhere outside of all of these traditions. Valenziano currently lives and works in Santa Cruz, California.
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Valenziano draws much of his sculptural vocabulary from the forms found in nature: plants, animals, insects, seedpods, pollen grains, fungi, bones and the human figure. While his visual vocabulary is deeply rooted in the natural world, he also draws vocabulary from the synthetic or machine world. The resulting sculptures are, in part, an attempt to imagine a new ecology – one in which the organic world and the synthetic world exist in a state of symbiosis.
Born in Tucson Arizona but raised in the astonishing natural beauty of northern California’s Mendocino county Adon Valenziano has long admired nature as the most accomplished of all sculptors. Though Adon Valenziano’s sculptures are deeply rooted in forms found in the natural world, his work also references the synthetic or machine world as well as the work of other artists or “the art world.” He is fascinated with symbiosis and hybridity and creating fictive organic/synthetic entities.
While his materials and methods are rooted in the historic art making practices of cast bronze, carved wood and blown glass, his unique work exists somewhere outside of all of these traditions. Valenziano currently lives and works in Santa Cruz, California.
City College Art Gallery is proud to present Adon s. Valenziano: Fruiting Bodies Sculpture.
Valenziano draws much of his sculptural vocabulary from the forms found in nature: plants, animals, insects, seedpods, pollen grains, fungi, bones and the human figure. While his visual vocabulary is deeply rooted in the natural world, he also draws vocabulary from the synthetic or machine world. The resulting sculptures are, in part, an attempt to imagine a new ecology – one in which the organic world and the synthetic world exist in a state of symbiosis.
Born in Tucson Arizona but raised in the astonishing natural beauty of northern California’s Mendocino county Adon Valenziano has long admired nature as the most accomplished of all sculptors. Though Adon Valenziano’s sculptures are deeply rooted in forms found in the natural world, his work also references the synthetic or machine world as well as the work of other artists or “the art world.” He is fascinated with symbiosis and hybridity and creating fictive organic/synthetic entities.
While his materials and methods are rooted in the historic art making practices of cast bronze, carved wood and blown glass, his unique work exists somewhere outside of all of these traditions. Valenziano currently lives and works in Santa Cruz, California.
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Valenziano draws much of his sculptural vocabulary from the forms found in nature: plants, animals, insects, seedpods, pollen grains, fungi, bones and the human figure. While his visual vocabulary is deeply rooted in the natural world, he also draws vocabulary from the synthetic or machine world. The resulting sculptures are, in part, an attempt to imagine a new ecology – one in which the organic world and the synthetic world exist in a state of symbiosis.
Born in Tucson Arizona but raised in the astonishing natural beauty of northern California’s Mendocino county Adon Valenziano has long admired nature as the most accomplished of all sculptors. Though Adon Valenziano’s sculptures are deeply rooted in forms found in the natural world, his work also references the synthetic or machine world as well as the work of other artists or “the art world.” He is fascinated with symbiosis and hybridity and creating fictive organic/synthetic entities.
While his materials and methods are rooted in the historic art making practices of cast bronze, carved wood and blown glass, his unique work exists somewhere outside of all of these traditions. Valenziano currently lives and works in Santa Cruz, California.
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