Dan Molyneux ( he/him )

Like the sound and shape of vibration in music, geometric abstraction can activate form into an elegant mathematical literature that artists arrange into visual poetics. Compositions weave and unfold, revealing a layered visual fabric. My work is an exercise in approaching form as if it operated like language; as if it had a code of representation just like alphabets and grammar, numbers and mathematics, notes and music. Form, color, intuition and emotion reign in the sub-conscious, where language, grammar and rationale grasp to give those things meaning. My instinct is to mine inspiration from that pre-language source of consciousness, where certain elevated qualities of the human spirit, those that aren’t so easily articulated by language, seem to dwell. In a way, this exploration harks back to my background in linguistics and anthropology. It indicates that my own understanding of the tools I use to communicate has expanded to where I see vibration, language and form as one and the same.

--Dan Molyneux

Molyneux majored in languages, anthropology and comparative religion before pursuing a PhD in Modern Arabic Literature. He first apprenticed with a sculptor in Bangalore in 1996 and then moved to Hangzhou to continue his studies and work in a pottery studio. Molyneux currently lives in N. California and works at CSUS Sacramento. His work is collected abroad and in permanent collections such as the International Ceramics Museum of Faenza, the Korean Ceramic Foundation, the Yingge Ceramics Museum, the Ceramic Art University Museum in Jingdezhen, the National Museum of Slovenia, the Fuller Craft Museum and the Crocker Art Museum.