I am a local sculptor, returning after 13 years teaching, traveling and making art in multiple states/countries. My sculptures are shown throughout the United States; including New York, Fort Lauderdale, San Francisco, the "Art Prize" in Grand Rapids, Michigan and abroad in Italy, Columbia, Peru, Poland, and Ghana, Africa. I work in many mediums, and most of my projects have been self-funded and personally fabricated with the exception of sponsored international projects in Poland and Peru. "My search for beauty and purpose manifests into forms that abstract femininity and vitality. Reshaping the body demonstrating curiosity about science, medicine and the search for human perfection. Within my work the human body is displaced retaining ranges of recognizable features-but what remains behind is an interest in the dispersal and fertilization of the feminine mystique."
Scopa
Joni Younkins-Herzog | 2019
The artist's search for beauty and purpose manifests into sculptures that abstract femininity and vitality. She reshapes the body, demonstrating a curiosity about the sciences, the arts and the search for human perfection. De-constructing the subject yet retaining a variety of recognizable features catalyzes the work into wholly new life forms. Scopa pulls apart and reassembles the iconography and symbolism of the Saxophone and the Angel Trumpet Flower to create an object irresistible to closer inspection.