Circuitous: Sculpture by Todd Volz, the Northern Arizona University Art Museum’s new exhibition, evokes the gear and girder age by featuring sculptures with a steampunk aesthetic.
The exhibit opens Feb. 5 and is on display through March 29. Volz is giving a free public presentation at 4 p.m. March 29.
Volz, a professional artist and educator, has had artwork featured throughout the United States. His sculptures reveal a spirit of inventiveness and ingenuity and draw inspiration from the glass and steel surfaces of antique medical devices, farm machinery and domestic appliances.
“The mechanical forms and antiqued surfaces that I use are meant to engage viewers in a creative process of the their own as they attempt to discern the true function of the objects amidst varying levels of real and imagined functionality,” Volz said.
The NAU Art Museum sustains its role as a leading cultural institution in northern Arizona through its acquisition of challenging, contemporary art.
The NAU Art Museum is open from noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Entrance to the museum is free, but a $2 donation is suggested.
As a point of clarification; while we, at the NAU Art Museum, have used the term “Steampunk” in referencing the neo-victorian aesthetic of surface treatments found in Todd Volz’s artwork, the artist believes the philosophy behind his work alines more accurately with the Post-industrial genre.