Steven Dobbin "Piercing The Mundane"

Causey Contemporary

poster for Steven Dobbin "Piercing The Mundane"

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Piercing the Mundane, the title of Steven Dobbin’s upcoming exhibition at Causey Contemporary comes from a Bill Moyers quotation, “ creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.” Mr. Dobbin believes that the most mundane of objects: nails, old paint cans and their lids, old buckets etc have the inherent ability to be given new life by the person who can see them and indeed use them in a new way. He thus explores such objects' use in his sculpture and in his paintings recombining them with other materials to create something new. Contining on from his previous "Reclamation" series, Mr. Dobbin's newest pieces again employ found paint can lids or cans. Additionally, this series also re- approaches Steven’s previous investigations of self identity.

Steven Dobbin is a sculptor working in lead, copper, and steel with plaster and pigment. He has received his degrees from Indiana University, The University of Southern California, and George Washington University in Fine Arts, Ceramics, and Education. He resides in Western Maryland. Since 2006, he has taught at the Frederick High School in Frederick, Maryland where he started a program to teach life skills to intellectually disabled students and was named special educator of the year in Frederick County. Prior to this he taught at the Phillips School for Contemporary Education where he developed an arts program for severely emotionally disturbed children.

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from April 15, 2011 to May 15, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-04-15 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Steven Dobbin

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