B. Wurtz

In this small sculpture B. Wurtz has carefully arranged several familiar objects to evoke a domestic scene that looks slightly askew as a food tin manages not to fall off a slanted board suggesting a lopsided kitchen table. Using found materials specifically related to food, clothing, and shelter, Wurtz’s precarious assemblages simultaneously emphasize and obscure the mundane origins of his sources, recycling elements into carefully balanced, whimsical compositions. “While I do make objects,” the artist has noted, “in a way it would be more accurate to say that I rearrange objects that already exist....Found objects give me the content right from the start. They represent my feeling that looking at the Universe begins with really seeing the everyday things right in front of one’s nose.”