ArtStar Contestant Promo: Travis, Conceptual Artist

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The Spot: Reality Show Contestant Biography — Travis, Fine Artist

The good folks in the promos department at VOOM HD Networks cut together a series of contestant bios from Big City’s footage to help plug the reality show ArtStar Season 2 on Gallery HD.

Travis is the brains behind a sculpture made of human sweat which slowly melts over time. The title of the piece? Why “Sweat Popsicle” of course!

Like all the season two Artstar contestants, Travis is a student at the School Of Art Institute Of Chicago.

Artist Statement:

Primarily using materials of corporal quality, my work explores the transitory nature of existence. Sculptures slowly disintegrate and require replenishing to “live” on. Videos capture the transformation of individuals into a mob collective. Portraits are collections of fragments and stray marks that are taken from, but show little reference to, the original photographs. Through the constant movement of growing up in a military family I developed an interest in the negotiation of shifting space, both physical and emotional. Conceptually driven, my work has a minimalist bend to it as I tend to use the fewest materials possible. A particular sculpture, Sweat Popsicle, is comprised of frozen sweat and displayed in a humming glass-door freezer. The bodily fluid that was once an intrinsic part of a person becomes an object that exists as a distinct entity on a separate plane. Eventually, it will evaporate and I must routinely gather more sweat for it to continue to exist. Tedious and absurd, sometimes this accumulating process becomes more compelling than the original idea and develops into a video of act. I am interested in what moves beyond conventional representation and intend for my art to exist in a new geography, one that redefines the distance between ritual and routine, original source and final work.

Travis Leroy Southworth
The Drawing Center Viewing Program Artist Portfolio Travis LeRoy Southworth
Saatchi Online Travis Leroy Southworth
Brooklyn Arts Council Travis Leroy Southworth

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