source: baangandburne

John’s sculptures are beautiful, kinetic, sanguine, and serene. He creates a mechanism, a motor that creates a subtle and slight movement. He then creates a field to place this movement on a grander scale. When finished he creates a landscape that intersects “technology, music, history, language, and geometry.”

We loved his work because of the experimentation he utilizes in the work. He does not shy away from creating an object or image that becomes the “thin divide between everythingness and nothingness.” He attempts at keeping academic themes involved, yet keeps you mesmerized with constant movement and sound.

John Douglas Powers currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama where he teaches as well.
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source: uabedu

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF SCULPTURE:
John Douglas Powers is Assistant Professor of Sculpture at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. He attended the University of Georgia (MFA in Sculpture, with distinction, 2008) and Vanderbilt University (B.A. Art History, 2001). John is the recipient of a prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant as well as a Southeast College Art Conference Individual Artist Fellowship and the 2001 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award.

Drawing from areas as diverse as natural history, architecture and the history of technology, Powers is engaged in an intense investigation of what is possible to be revealed by the intersection of cinema, computation, music and physical space.