JEFF MUHS
Name: Jeff Muhs
Age: 56
Birthplace: Southampton, NY
Home: Southampton, NY
Disciplines: Painting, sculpture, design, fabrication
Decommissioned Manolo Blahnik, 2014, concrete and shoes
How did your artistic practice start?
My father was a woodworker and he started letting me sculpt wood at a young age. I have always drawn and painted. I have continued to develop and pursue my passion for creating and aesthetics my whole life.
Which figures is your work about?
My work strives to $nd the true source of beauty and creation. I believe that the female body is God’s most beautiful creation.
Which topics does your work focus on?
In my concrete sculptures, the main themes that run throughout the work are erotic forms created through the use of restraints, often incorporating iconic pieces of high design, the female form, fetish, and always referencing art history.
How do you define your artistic search and practice in three words?
Thought, action, manifestation.
What poetry is your work about?
If poetry is a form of artistic license, I suppose my work is a form of visual poetry. I am free to create things as I see fit. Freedom gives me the ability to convey pure thought into manifested form.
Which artistic language do you use and what do you want to say with it?
I think my sculpture uses the language of sensuality. The curve of a female body speaks many things to many people. I use this language to elicit a response from the viewer. To coax the viewer into a moment of reverie.
What is your artistic and personal commitment?
I make things, that's what I do. I am always creating in many artistic genres. I am committed to continuing to do this in an ever-increasing and grand capacity.
Wherein lies the beauty for you today?
I think I've come to the conclusion that there is beauty in everything, depending on your point of view.