Amber Cobb
Region: West
I investigate defunct city blocks, rural communities, industrial
landscapes, and the subcultures that exist within them. My
curiosity about these sites is a function of my interest in abjection
and class structure. Through installation, sculpture, painting, and
drawing I create a stage that reveals the way life emerges within
unexpected situations.
The exploration of spaces of abjection is often my departure
point. I gather roadside castoffs, imagining the life these objects
once led. In my hands, they are born again; the grim begins
approach the glam. Through their transformation, I engender a
platform where the rejected can be accepted. The work is semiautobiographical,
exploring memory and the imagination in a
nonlinear fashion. The underlying narratives within the work are
a combination of my personal history and an amalgamation of
abstract memories and appropriated stories.