Vincent Pocsik’s sculptures are meticulously carved and pieced together using wood and glue. This traditional and analog process is counterbalanced by the artist’s use of digital tools for rendering and virtually drawing his forms, most of which seem to harken to a time post-humanity as we know it. In this new realm, we’re not so different from the plants and trees that have become Pocsik’s subject and medium of choice, as our human anatomy has melded with botanical forms and flowers, creating poetic hybrids.

Flora and fauna are essentially the antennae of the Earth, quickly responding to the conditions around them. Here, as imagined and conjoined by Pocsik, there is a symbolic connection between the humans and plants now seen reaching and swaying together, linked as one, which speaks to our dependence on the natural world. These offerings feel like warnings as they abstractly relay the environment's increasingly tenuous state. Heightening the effect, several of the sculptures feel reminiscent of altars set up for others to encounter, with nature now making use of the bottles we drink from and the boots we wear. These works possess a more solemn feeling in that the only traces of our existence are the detritus of the materials we consume and use.

Despite the real-world concerns embedded in Pocsik’s surreal fantasies, there is an overarching feeling of hope attached to this body of work. Sunflowers are presented in full bloom, still calling for the sky as they emerge from fingertips, and hands seem to tenderly reach out, caressing one another while twisting and extending out from the stalks of large flowers on the move. The duality of these physical forms allows viewers to reflect on the sculptures from many different perspectives and angles and, at the same time, linger in their strange beauty and playful energy.


Vincent Pocsik (b. 1985, Cleveland, OH) received an MA in Architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles and a BS from Bowling Green State University, OH. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Jessica Silverman Gallery San Francisco; Objective Gallery New York; Objective Gallery, Shanghai; and Twentieth Exhibitions, LA. His work has been included in recent group exhibitions at Object Gallery, St. Moritz Switzerland and the Marfa Invitational at Room 57 Gallery, Marfa, TX. Pocsik lives and work in Los Angeles.