emlen.com is the artwork of charles c. emlen

chasemlen@gmail.com
610-348-3956


education

mfa in sculpture, arizona state university, 1984
bfa in sculpture, pennsylvania state university, 1981


Artist Statement

I’m fascinated by systems and technology, the way things work, evolution, massively large numbers, complex algorithms, the human brain, entropy, eternity, language, sex, disease, animals, economies, and the functional aspects of just about every part of this great, big, wonderful thing we call reality. It’s true, most of my work does tend toward the technological, but that’s just the way I choose to communicate. While at my core I acknowledge I may be a spiritual animal, what and how I think is largely based in science. It’s a weakness. I can’t help but see the physical world as an endless field of size, scale, complexity and granularity. The universe is at once infinitely large and infinitely small. From the farthest reaches of the cosmos to the most diminutively infinitesimal corner of sub-atomic space, a diverse complexity reigns.


influences and interests include but are not limited to...

iconography, entropy, claus oldenburg, srl, robert smithson, infiniti, zen/calculi, martin puryear, david therrien, symbolic logic, richard serra, and of course, sub-ethereal decay.