Vincent Fecteau

The American artist Vincent Fecteau’s abstract sculptures defy summary description. Out of everyday staples like papier-mâché, cardboard, pictures from magazines, and paint, he fashions complex objects in which volumes simultaneously collapse and explode.

Fecteau’s articulation of sculptural space is informed by the potential of multiple viewpoints; impossible to comprehend at a glance, his multilayered sculptures continue to take the viewer by surprise. In a time-consuming yet playful cumulative process, the artist alternately adds and removes elements to produce interlocking volumes contained by contorted surfaces, their concave and convex areas suggesting now the interior of one shape, now the exterior of another. Some sport bright colors, while others are painted in more subdued hues, and their textures evince the traces of the artist’s labors.

Born in Islip (New York, USA) in 1969, lives and works in San Francisco.

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