Artist Statement:
My work is a form of visual exegesis based in the processes of traditional materials. Using symbols and characters borrowed from philosophy, theology, and literature I reconstitute them into images and sculptures. Through this process I am concerned with teasing out mythic narratives that hold resonance, whether personally or collectively. Biblical archetypes have been central to this project.
Wood carving is the technical foundation of my work, I carve both sculptures and matrices for printmaking. I integrate traditional craft into my artistic expressions because it allows me to convey older ideas in an original form. This link between past and present is essential to the narrative substance of my work and the physical medium allows that convergence to happen physically as well as conceptually. I am interested in creating that cross-section where the material and transcendent can become singular. All this in pursuit of revelation.
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Eva Sturm-Gross is an artist and woodworker originally from Vermont. She graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in studio art and religion. Her prints and sculptures have been exhibited nationally including at the Wharton Esherick Museum in Pennsylvania, at the Kent Museum in Vermont and the Ohio Craft Museum in Columbus. She has been awarded multiple fellowships including Winter Resident at Penland School of Craft and Vermont Studio Center. She has worked as a studio technician at Haystack Mountain School and has been awarded scholarships and work studies to take classes at Penland school of Craft, John C. Campbell Folk School, and Lost Art Press. Eva is the art director of Gashmius Magazine and teaches wood carving at Makeville Studio and Bien Hecho Academy in Brooklyn.