small works

Sculpture is meant to be seen in the round, from all sides. Sometimes I juxtapose unlike objects, perhaps a face I had carved in wood with a printer's plate and some bones. Or working from a model I shape clay into a figure then cast it. Or explore purely abstract form. An open process allows possibilities to flow.

All four sides of Man vs. Cellphone, a small resin sculpture.

Man vs. Cellphone, resin, sand, 4.75” x 2.25” x 2.25” / 12 x 6 x 6 cm 2006
photos: Egils Zarins

An animation of all four sides of Man vs. Airport, a small resin sculpture wiht a face on one side and the image of an airport pressed into the other.

Man vs. Airport, resin, sand, 3.25” x 5” x 1.75” / 8 x 13 x 4 cm, 2006
The back view uses an impression from a printer’s block of the Lawrence, MA. airport. I grew up in that immigrant city. photos: Egils Zarins

An animation of a realistic seated nude female resin sculpture.

An animation of a totally abstract cast plaster scultpure that has a vertical stance.

The Woman Thinks, resin, sand, 9” x 10” x 18” / 23 x 25 x 46 cm, 2006
photos: Egils Zarins

Untitled, cast plaster, 12” x 6” x 5” / 30 x 15 x 13 cm, 2006. Photos: Egils Zarins

steel and mixed media

A dark steel sculpture with a bright aluminum waistband. It is a visual metaphor for human virility.

A dark steel vertical sculpture of square shapes with a discarded tool and on top a cast aluminum sphere-like shape.

A small but hefty sculpture with a red dangling egg representing life hanging in the balance.

A nest of nails supported by three wrenches as legs. In the nest is a hydrocal egg with a female face on one side and a male on the other.

An abstract steel sculpture of three shapes balanced on one another.

A rectangular steel sculpture topped by a wedge shape standing on end and a two sided face cast in bronze.

A small but heavy rectangular vertical sculpture with its top carved like a craggy mountain.

Apainted steel scultpure showing two faces with a curved pipe shape above them and a flame-like shape behind them.

An abstract steel and wrought iron sculpture.

An upright steel sculpture of a geometric shape topped by a cylinder and atop that some flame-like curvy shapes.

A heavy steel sculpture shaped like a quarter of a cake, with a mountainous cut steel shape on the front.

The same sculpture with its door open to reveal circular steel found objects welded inside.

A brown, square wooden shape wiht four black legs and atop the center is a round black shape from which appear the tops of three figures - a woman and two men - and between them, a fish.

A detail of the Anguish sculpture showing only the three figures, painted black.

A steel wall scultpure of a vertical woman. Given to the Women's Crisis Center in Newburyport, Ma for a fund raiser.

A dark steel abstract scultpure of flame-liek or water-like wavy shapes above a smooth, shiny aluminum base element.

in a group installation

A little wooden winged house covered with birch bark, leaves and maple seeds. It is tipped up over its black steel base as if about to take off in flight.

Sustainability, painted steel, wood, birch bark, oak leaves, maple seeds, 10" x 6" x 7 / 25 x 15 x 18 cm, 2005. photos: Egils Zarins

Sustainability was part of a group installation called Ourchitecture curated by Elizabeth Keithline at the Newport Art Museum in Rhode Island. Each artist was given a small wooden house module to transform. These were arranged on an X-shaped platform. To see the museum's .pdf map of the installation click here.

Sustainability worked from the premise that if we and our architecture are to survive, we must be sustainable. That critical sustainability will lead to freedom from dependence.and from the terminal fate we otherwise will suffer. Trees are a good metaphor for sustainability. The wings and uplifted posture suggest independence. The shadow is larger than the footprint of the house to suggest that by taking action towards a better fate our possibilities are greater.

“Some of the most successful transformations, artistically, draw on the desire to transcend confinement or, in contrast, stress the menace that can be felt to surround protected spaces. Wings sprouting from its roof, Joyce Audy Zarins’ birch-bark-covered “Sustainability” is tipped back, about to take flight.”
- Bill Rodrigues. “Home is where…” The Providence Phoenix December 16-22, 2005

and on the wall... archipelago elements

An abstract steel wall sculpture cut in two ragged shapes that look like islands.

Another in the Archipelago Elements series, this one with five island-like parts, also wall hung.

Another two part wall sculpture in this series.

A three section Archipelago Element with beautifully raggedly cut edges as though they had eroded. This steel island sits on a seascape of wall.

Another two-element part of this series. The steel is thick and elegantly rugged in the way it was cut.

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