Exhibitions

DENICE BIZOT: PLUCKED FOR PURPOSE

Area 61 Gallery / 61 E. Main St. August 4, 2017 - September 30, 2017

Denice Bizot

The end of summer continues the heat with a new body of work by metal sculptor, Denice Bizot. Denice's sculpture created from discarded shovels and salvaged car hoods are highly coveted and collected by locals and out-of-town visitors alike. Her latest work will not disappoint.

For several years, found object assemblage piqued Denice’s interest. She collected and used farm implements such as shovels, plow disks and pick axes as the foundation of her work. Abandoned streets, salvage yards, condemned buildings, and dumpsters are vast repositories for finding discarded objects to be carted back to her studio and transformed into sculpture.

Her work continuously evolves but the centerpiece, her signature style, is piercing metal with a hand-held plasma torch creating patterns of lace, abstract cutouts and irregular line movements. The shadows cast by her pieces are integral parts of her sculptures. Sometimes she works to create a certain shadow shape or style, and sometimes the piece surprises her.

Working without prior sketches, Denice visualizes a shape and begins torching, consequently, many designs are experimental and one of a kind.

Denice Bizot sculpture can be found in a number of private and public collections, including those of singer Luke Bryan, actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, MS, and Volkswagen in Chattanooga. One of her pierced truck hoods was purchased by the Montclair Art Museum, in Montclair, NJ. The Museum included it in their show Matisse and American Art, an exhibition that examines the French master’s profound impact upon the development of American modern art from 1907 to the present. When the show opened spring 2017, she was one of only three living artists with work in the exhibition, which featured art by many well-known 20th Century American artists.