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The Studio Chair

Church Keys

5/18/2015

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Introducing my latest piece: 
Impressions of 144 Church Keys That Don't Open Anything
Charcoal on paper with brass hooks
48" x 96" (dimensions variable)
2015
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Revisiting Corpus

5/15/2015

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This week I spent some quality time with Corpus, the piece I made for the Bible and Theology department at Wheaton College. I was there to take some new higher resolution images of the piece to be used for the cover of the book of the latest Wheaton Theology Conference. Although I see the piece from time to time throughout the year, this was the first time I had spent some significant time with the piece (more than an hour) in a while. I have to say it was enjoyable, like having coffee with an old friend. Sometimes when I go back to an older work I am mostly conscious of the flaws. But in this case I felt more like we were continuing an conversation we were having two years ago. Nice. 
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Uncertainty is the Right? Path

5/12/2015

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"I wasn't sure when I finished it if anybody would take it seriously as a work of art and I don't know how many people do anyway." Bruce Nauman

Yeah, Bruce, I feel ya.
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(new work in progress)

That's the great/terrible thing about making art. You have to find a way to live in a place of constant uncertainty.  Well, I guess that's no entirely true. It's more accurate to say I have chosen a path where I have to live in a place of constant uncertainty, artistically speaking. That being said, it is nice to have artists to look to like Bruce Nauman who have blazed that trail already, and done so successfully.  One of the most inspiring things about the Art 21 video I have linked to is not any one work but the eclectic array of projects shown, both finished and unfinished.
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About David  

David J. P. Hooker lives and works in the greater Chicago area, where he is an artist and Chair of the Art Department at Wheaton College. He received an M.F.A. in Ceramics from Kent State University and a B.A. in English from Furman University. 
 
His artistic practice explores the inherent value of materials, objects, and places, hoping to find ways to better connect and understand the world we live in. Recently he was awarded the Dunhuang Ceramic Residency and spent two months as artist in residence in Lanzhou, China. 
 
When David is not freaking out over deadlines, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Elaine, his children Abbey and Samuel, and the family cat, Evee. He also enjoys baseball, BBQ, and tennis—not necessarily in that order.

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