Dining Table with Four Chairs

source: dodge-gallery

Darren Blackstone Foote was born in 1978 in Melba, Idaho. He received his BA from Pacific Lutheran University in Washington in 2001 and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011. Foote participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2011 to 2012. His work has been exhibited at international art fairs in Miami, New York, and Basel, Switzerland. His solo exhibition at the gallery in 2012 was selected as one of the top 100 best international exhibitions to see Fall 2012. He was the recipient of the New England Art Awards Critic’s Pick Best Sculpture Exhibition, Jeanne Stahl-Webber Sculpture Scholarship, RISD Graduate Studies Grant Award, S.L.Y. Herman Scholarship and Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship grantee. Foote’s work has been reviewed in Modern Painters, and The Boston Globe, among others. His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art. Foote lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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source: artsynet
Drawing from philosophy, science, art history, and nature, Darren Blackstone Foote makes mixed-media sculptures, and takes sculptural photographs, through which he explores the age-old questions about man’s place in the world and relationship to nature. As he describes: “I’m interested in finding points of re-connection not only to nature, but the natural mechanisms of life and death. I’m specifically interested in how we, as thinking, powerful agents contend with the world we’ve created.” Blackstone Foote works primarily with natural and elemental materials, including cowhide, glass, plaster, and, most importantly, wood, which is central to his work. Shaped and raw, his wooden logs, branches, planks, and forms evoke living forests and eforestation, creation and destruction, persistence and decay. Such opposing forces hang in fraught, fragile balance in all of Blackstone Foote’s work, as they do in life.