Jedediah Caesar

My friend pointed out that in the video, behind the painted styrofoam block sculptor Jedediah Caesar is talking about, there are pieces more similar to the Art Cubes; "he put studio debris into big cubes and then uses resin and then has them sliced after they become like huge cement blocks he sliced them industrially and the cross sections illustrate the materials and process". I can see the relevance to what I'm doing, and I like how it's written about on the Whitney Biennial site (below). The use of compression and old acrylic medium is more sustainable than encasing is resin, and perhaps less common. I would like to see a compressed art cube sliced.

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"The faceted cut-resin blocks, which he exhibits alone or in stacked groupings, have been likened to geodes and marbled agate. Their variegated compositions allude to the “allover” abstraction of certain Abstract Expressionists, and when cut into cubes and rectilinear forms they replace the pristine geometry of Minimalism with a chaos of matter in space. “Encasing everything in resin puts things at the same material level, but reveals a pre-functional object materiality,” the artist notes. “It’s like destroying the meaning of a thing and reengaging with another meaning of it at the same time.” Recently, he has sliced his resin blocks into rectangular panels and mounted them in rows on the wall, allowing the viewer to follow the embedded objects from one cross-sectioned tile to the next, like the frames of a film. An untitled 2007 piece includes a full-size lounge chair elevated on a wooden platform and rendered useless by an accumulation of debris on the seat and around it; another untitled work from 2007 incorporates various natural materials encased in resin to form a freestanding block, its sides cut smooth, with palm branches, flowers, and wood sprouting from the top like plants from a core sample of earth. "
© 2008 Whitney Museum of American Art
http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=artists&page=artist_caesar