Nimer Aleck II. Georgia State University MFA candidate. Sculpture. Central Michigan University BFA. Sculpture.

My work employs an exploratory view of the sculptural dimension through the expression of personal experiences, philosophies, memories, emotions, and cultural observations. This compulsion to create has been nurtured through the adaptation of both traditional and nontraditional sculptural materials to fulfill the necessities of each work.
Through the use of the manipulated familiar and tradecraft materials, my current body of work creates a personal reflection on the dissolve of physical knowledge in our post-industrial/consumer environment. Environmental relationships and the physical manifestation of conceptual filters also play an important role in my past artistic direction. Rather then create a narrative statement my latest works create cues for the viewer to immediately relate, then question their relationship to the medium. Media and process take central roll in each exhibition. I want the viewer to evaluate their own involvement within in their physical environment.
Most recently I have immersed myself into the research, observation, and pensive commentary on our existing “culture of consumption”. This interest is further fueled the contrast between my personal theology and the observation of my own addiction to the act of consuming. How we consume, the materialization of value, and the flux in our value system created by an inherent lack of conservation are rapidly becoming major themes in my artistic conscience. I wish to create a dialog with the viewer that questions our relationship between who we are, and what we have. While the occupation of objects within each persons sense of self is observably coupled: To what scope does this occur, and at what cost?