Ted Semienchuk

Each work emerges from a vision or an inner image the artist holds of the human form the movement of a ballet dancer, the arch of a figure skater. At the heart of his work lies the human form. He seeks to express and capture the precise moment of a contortion or a movement in short, the expression of the body. Working without a model, Ted Semienchuks creations strike the viewer through the beauty of the human body and move them with their expressive power. Within this exploration of contortion, the wire itself dictates a certain motion; each sculpture evolves, changing direction. As soon as the material is pushed one way, it forces itself and the entire piece to shift in another.

Moreover, a duality emerges from this mesh. The metal wires are solid the viewer sees the primary form and at the same time transparent: as the eye moves through the work, the background merges with the foreground lines and shapes, enhancing the pieces expressive nature. In his sculptures, Ted plays with light and shadow across the mesh, sculpting the subject in three dimensions. The shadow, cast onto the background, in turn presents the subject in two dimensions.