RAiR 2003 - 04 (also see 2014)

Michael Beitz | Buffalo, NY

Michael Beitz received a BFA in sculpture from Alfred University. He then spent several years training alongside the world renowned furniture artist Wendell Castle before receiving an MFA in sculpture at the University at Buffalo. Michael has completed a number of public commissions and continues to exhibit works both nationally and internationally. He was invited by the artist Banksy to participate in Dismaland in 2015. Michael has now set up his home base and studio in Roswell.

“Ver es una forma de decir.”

Seeing is a way of saying. 

— unknown

My work comes from a place before language.  An object's existence before a name has infinite possibilities.

The process of making is where the magic is for me.  But I don't know about the whole idea of showing artwork because at that point you have to make it into something real for people.

Being able to invent something from your mind that doesn't exist and create it materially shows you how much the reality that you're in is constructed and you start to be able to see how.

The meaning of a word is not real in reality because the word is our invention.  I start to understand, through making, this concept.

To create something is a mistake in my mind when there are too many rigid boundaries for it to exist.

Michael Beitz, 2004