Austin Reavis
Art Box 1 - Sample Works
Studio Profile
Austin Reavis
The best part of John Carpenter’s “The Thing” is when the infected body of one of the scientists explodes into many smaller subsets of an alien; his chest opening into a mouth; the organs jack-in-the-boxing onto the ceiling; and the head dislocating to scurry away. Similarly, my own practice inhabits the objects that surround me and bursts through them into many free-thinking creatures.
I do not hide the transformation that happens with my art, however. I let all of my processes remain in plain sight. The material-ness of the objects I use and the ways that they are combined is as important to me as the things themselves. This is because my own relationship to objects is something that I am trying to understand. I need to grapple with the thingy-ness of what surrounds me, which means that my world needs to travel through my hands. Play and open-endedness are essential to my practice, as kinesthetics seems to be how I learn and access.
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The Austin Reavis Art Box supplies one unique original, hand-made artwork and two small-editioned zines. Special mounting pins, designed to hang the work directly on the wall, are included. Every box contains a different work.
A selection of available works shown - not all available works are shown here. No refunds allowed or accepted on deliverable art box products.