Halsey Rodman, "Cave System or Ear Canal"

The mutable nature of things serves as a philosophical jumping-off point of sorts for Rodman's mixed-media constructions, paintings and works of paper. Rodman was born in 1973 and, like a lot of artists who are his age or younger, there's a certain provisional, even throwaway quality to his pieces, which mix imagery and abstraction as well as the occasional found object. As varied as his works appear to be, however, they are carefully tied together by the repetition of formal motifs.