Homologous Monstrosity #2 (Horn)

1995

Assemblage with antler and clarinet
6 x 3 x 20 inches
Collection of Julie Speed

This piece was made from a clarinet section fused to a deer antler. This and Homologous Monstrosity #1 (Bone) were intended to be the first in a series that involve the unlikely melding of disimilar objects. They represent a significant departure from my other work wherein the objects are fitted together to look like some plausable thing. In this case, the objects obviously do not belong together.

BRUDNIAK

There is always alchemy at work. It was this quality that attracted me to Brudniak’s work in 1995, when I was curating the theme exhibition Magic and Mystery for Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin selecting artists that had this alchemy and surreal quality in their work, including Joseph Cornell and others. Homologous Monstrosity #1 and #2, (page #) were pieces chosen for the exhibit that morphed metal into bone, something that in today’s world, science is doing every day.

KATHRYN DAVIDSON – The Science of Surrealism – Assemblage Sculpture of Steve Brudniak