Claudia Fitch | Artist statement

My work in drawing and sculpture playfully re-invents icons familiar in pop culture and art history, reconciling the tropes and conventions of culture within a viscerally felt, personal language. The commonly understood images of "objects of significance" (such as the Scholar's Rock, the bronze Minoan figurines, the antique furniture) fascinate me as subjects simultaneously banal and persuasive, congruent and incongruent within the larger context of urban life. Their often decorative but loaded presence continues to open up the rich, curiously entwined relationship between the historical and the personal, the cultural icon and the human desire to possess or embody it in some form. Re-iterating the formal iconography of these objects through the process of drawing, and through unexpected shifts in context, scale and material elements, my work seeks to displace the familiar with the unfamiliar, and to disclose a potentially marvelous and idiosyncratic integrity between expected social form and a more subconscious visceral reality.