Artists Statement
Dan Dennison
I just like to play with shapes.
The impetus for my art is a desire to take
random metal pieces
And create with them something of
beauty and balance.
My preferred
medium is found and recycled steel.
Steel is, on
the one hand strong and unyielding,
yet on the
other hand it is amazingly pliable.
By using found metal, I feel I am doing a
small part to combat
the cycle of waste that has become so
prevalent in our modern society.
But in the
end, it’s really all about playing with shapes.
Biography
Dan Dennison
working mainly with found and recycled metals.
After high school, Dan grabbed his piece of the American Dream
and became a self-employed iron worker.
During his career working with wrought iron, he developed
a keen sense of balance, design and unorthodox math skills
that would someday prove vital to his art.
A short stint as president of Cherry Hill Bonsai Society further honed
his concept of balance, patience, and negative space.
Dan took all these tools and set out to create art
from all the scrap metal around him.
Having no formal art training, i
t took a while to find some direction.
But inspiration took hold and today Dan exhibits
throughout the Delaware Valley.
He has also created several public sculptures.
Dan believes that by using recycled and scrap metal,
he can heighten awareness to the wastefulness of our culture,
one sculpture at
a time.
