Jeff Slomba
Primary Medium: Sculpture
Other media: Drawing
Jeff Slomba
Artist Statement
My recent work is concerned with acts of selective preservation in response to forces of change. In this investigation, architectural and figurative subjects reveal their structural arrangements as being dynamic, layered and malleable. Each sculpture's hybrid morphology stems from inherent contradictions among various agendas for organizing material form, and the perpetual tension that exists between past, present, and future development.
Through lack of gravity, appropriate scale or context, the functions of these familiar archetypes are called into question. Is their genesis constructed or organic? Is their presence monumental or miniature, historical or foretelling? Is their transformation adaptive or succumbing?
Other media: Drawing
Jeff Slomba
Artist Statement
My recent work is concerned with acts of selective preservation in response to forces of change. In this investigation, architectural and figurative subjects reveal their structural arrangements as being dynamic, layered and malleable. Each sculpture's hybrid morphology stems from inherent contradictions among various agendas for organizing material form, and the perpetual tension that exists between past, present, and future development.
Through lack of gravity, appropriate scale or context, the functions of these familiar archetypes are called into question. Is their genesis constructed or organic? Is their presence monumental or miniature, historical or foretelling? Is their transformation adaptive or succumbing?
Selected Works
|  Marker (for T.H.) 2/2 - 2009 - pencil, toner, tracing paper - 14x18" - $300.00  attic burner - 2007 - pencil, toner, watercolor - 20x14 - $500.00  pylon (oak) - 2009 - pencil, toner - 20x14" - $300.00  station - 2009 - pencil, toner - 20x14" - $300.00 [Fundraiser]  Sound Change - 2009 - Wood, stereo speaker, cd player - Variable |
Artist Bio
Jeff Slomba
379 Union Ave cell (203) 843-5522
West Haven, CT 06516 office (203) 392-5008
Email: jslomba@juno.com
Education
1996 MFA in sculpture, State University of New York at Buffalo
1992-1994 Post-Baccalaureate Study, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1992 BA, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Selected Exhibitions
2008 Aldrich Undercover, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Home-an Inaugural Exhibition of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism,
CCCT Art Gallery, Hartford, CT (invitational)
ART: SCSU, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2007 Jeff Slomba/ Amalgamate (solo exhibition), Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, CT
Re:figure, curated by Jennifer Pepper, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
2006 Gods and Monsters (national juried), Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY
Bug Out of the Box: A New Look at the Contemporary Art, History and Science of Bugs,
(invitational) The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Aldrich Undercover, (invitational) Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Representing the Self (national juried), Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY
2005 Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern New York, juried by
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum curatorial staff, Ridgefield Guild of Artists Gallery, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)
Ourchitecture (national juried), Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Faculty Art Exhibition, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT
In the Round, (invitational) Small Space Gallery, Arts Council of Greater New Haven, CT and the John Slade Ely House of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2004 The Fall of Nature/The Rise of Construction, HEREart, New York, NY
Weir Farm Visiting Artists, Stamford Gallery, University of Connecticut Stamford (catalogue)
Faculty Art Exhibition, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT
City-Wide Open Studios, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2003 Realism Now: Traditions and Departures, Vose Galleries, Boston, MA (catalogue)
Superstructures, Artspace, (untitled) space gallery, New Haven, CT (catalogue)
Contemporary Drawing 2003 (national juried), TW Wood Gallery, Vermont College
Union Institute and University, Montpelier, VT (catalogue)
Day Job, Gibbs Gallery, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA
2002 Stilted (solo exhibition), Central Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Commissions, Collections, Registries
Connecticut Image Bank, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Hartford, CT
Flatfile, curated registry of works on paper, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Relief Sculpture Depicting the Legend of John Maynard, Buffalo Water Front,
Buffalo, NY, Bronze. Fiberglass and resin cast in City Hall Dortmund, Germany.
Sculpture to Commemorate the Tenure of Dean John Naughton, School of Medicine, University at Buffalo, NY, Bronze and Granite
The President's Collection, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA