BREON DUNIGAN

BREON DUNIGAN exhibits her sculpture and prints widely throughout New England and New York. Her work can be found is several public and private collections. Her studio is in Truro, on Cape Cod and she has deep connections to the Art Colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts.  Breon works with wood, plaster, metal, fabric, and bronze as well as mixed media on paper. Using familiar, evocative shapes and forms she introduces alterations in scale, material, function, or a reorganization of the subject itself that both raise questions and invite the viewer into her work. These contemporary interjections are smart, sometimes sly, always persistent and always drive her work to new possibilities. Her horned “Trophy Heads” are a suite of individual wall sculptures made from repurposed furniture and textiles. These sculptures are a marvel of ingenious fabrication, and a witty commentary on the psychology of what it means to collect objects. The work also describes the tension she enjoys between our preconceptions about beauty in fine art, functionality in the decorative arts, and ways that objects like trophies contain both possibilities. These artworks connect us with our hidden private desires, impulses and satisfactions about collecting including a flirtation with humor and a dash of fetish.

The sculptures in the gallery above are made first with plaster and then in bronze. Some have been cast for production in bronze and some are set to be cast. All of the pieces can be made into bronze sculpture suitable for an outdoor area and in some cases can be made larger as the artist makes the cast.