Artist's Statement

Schuyler Dawson orignally hails from the San Francisco Bay Area at the intersection of rural and suburb. He spent his youth crashing bicycles with an army of boys in a cul-de-sac and building forts in the marshlands and woods nearby. Schuyler attended San Diego State University where he received his BFA in Sculpture. He received his MFA in Sculpture from Alfred University in Alfred, New York, and currently lives in Boston where he works at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His recent work, using hands cast out of concrete, examines our relationship to labor and environments both natural and built, while collaged journal fragments and sculptural forms explore the nature of the self, our relationship to place, and how we change and remain the same as we move through time.