For his first solo exhibition at galerie Cardenas Bellanger, New Yorked-based artist Ian Pedigo presents four sculptures, two wall works, and a mural.

In the past, Pedigo has been known to create unorthodox sculptures from found materials, often of an industrial or commercial nature, juxtaposing them in such a way that they implicitly referenced urban elements and architecture. This new body of work represents if not a departure, then a significant expansion of Pedigo's practice, in terms of materials, reference, and mood. Deploying organic materials such as birch, rocks and dried grass in addition to his more customary palette of, say, chip board and lighting gels, these sculptures take on, at times, an almost bucolic air. Like would-be artifacts, they evoke the more primitive sturctures, such as tombs or obscure symbols, of a Pagan ethos. They nevertheless remain true to their industrial origins, bringing to mind the architectural maquettes and urban anomolies for which Pedigo has become known. Yet this new phase of his work has shifted into a more intimate and delicate register, aligning him more with a whole cast of idiosyncratic sculptors, which includes B. Wurtz Vincent Fecteau, Ian Kaier and Richard Tuttle.

Training his eye upon the everyday optical noise that surrounds us, Pedigo fashions it into unlikely and weirdly euphonious compositions. His alchemical sculptures speak their own language of redemption; by putting back into circulation what we normally take for granted, they redeem the hinterlands of our awareness.
- Chris Sharp