https://www.ianvand.art/exhibitions daily 0.75 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1580128638140-7LPJB66HCCALIRDRXUEB/Chandler%2C+Ian_15.jpg exhibitions - Naive Labor 2019 Cardboard, Primer, House Paint 8’ by 8’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1609868745269-1S6SCU5LNJVE1J4CEF9D/DSC_0699.jpeg exhibitions - curbside scarecrow Found: Buckets, Cardboard, Wire, Black Paint, Trash Bags, 2/4s 6’ x 6’ x 1’ 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1609901256844-BCG36CF3GTSCDZ73MR2R/DSC_0182.jpg exhibitions - A record of myself as an object that was forgotten. (Who Knows) Medium: Raw Canvas, Oil Stick, Found Wood, Grandfather’s Carpenter Clamp 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1609871470957-H9XOIBD2QBRDMVNI9Z66/Foundation.01.jpg exhibitions https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1580126850205-V0E9P86GI5A1S57CSK54/image-asset.jpeg exhibitions - PULP Wood, Sheets, House Paint, Wood Pulp 7’ by 1’ by 1’ 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1623211282426-5DLWAHN2Q19XKELLDRYM/DSC_0814.jpeg exhibitions - vacant rites: selected works from ‘the splinters in our hands’ Exhibited in Gallery No. 5 at Abel Contemporary Gallery in Stoughton, WI, 2021 Show Statement: There is an unnamed presence—a spirit, a ghost, an essence—that exists across America. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, I became more aware of it. I found that this thing could inhabit a space as large as a burnt forest or as small as a splinter. I could feel it lurking around environments I engaged with while skateboarding in parking lots, walking through rural land, and driving across empty backroads. I became inspired by it and wanted to explore the potential of giving it body and mass. I started responding to places I could feel this essence by creating relics of human material that engaged and existed amongst an outdoor environment. The figures of my sculptures and installations were never quite human or non-human but rather somewhere in between. They embody forgotten material, disregarded land, and the whispering spirit of rural America. My exhibition, “the splinters in our hands,” are the bodies of the unnamed ghost of the American landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1609863982837-BBD0XSZTOMLITKYRAKVN/DSC_0012.jpeg exhibitions - 'Authentically Human' Exhibition Photograph University of Wisconsin-Madison Art Lofts Gallery 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1609870353292-ENW1VODT3SRJOSEOUL9P/002.jpg exhibitions - 'With Time, I Trust My Labor' Exhibition Photograph University of Wisconsin - Madison, BackSpace Gallery 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1645198546671-OOT9C1XIW8GN6ETZ3ZTT/DSC_0428+2.jpeg exhibitions - N. 700 Scarecrow County MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Madison 2022 Installed in the 7th Floor Gallery Process: I spent 10 days taking 700 graphite rubbings of a single wooden board taken from a local walnut tree harvest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1710520840275-F3690FYUJ3WSN0ULL6GY/Behind%252BMy%252BEyes%2525231_IanVanD.jpg exhibitions https://www.ianvand.art/earthbound daily 0.75 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1623213057247-8IIIUF43YK3RTBMFXY5I/DSC_0822.jpeg Earthbound Installations - Death In Our Living Room 2020 Materials: Wisconsin Barn Wood, scavenged wood from the installation site Installed at the University of Wisconsin - Madison Arboretum in Longnecker Gardens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1623212759357-9KT3Y3A59AKDLUHLMUEJ/DSC_0644.jpeg Earthbound Installations - Dream World 2020 Materials: Scavenged Wisconsin lumber and barn wood, canvas, sticks from the gardens Installed in Eagle Heights Community Gardens in Madison, WI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1623213234759-SP2OJ3LH23T0555PKXXZ/DSC_0337.jpeg Earthbound Installations - O Future Bard 2020 Materials: Wisconsin Barnwood, Self Portrait Installed on private property in Stoughton WI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1623212512105-X7I8VPXDTQTNGF5NNC56/DSC_0751.jpeg Earthbound Installations - Outsiders Created over the course of a few months in the fall of 2020 Materials: Scavenged wood from the land Installed on private property in Mineral Point, WI https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1623212294832-GOOXXJKNU66N2R9S2ZC8/DSC_0689.jpeg Earthbound Installations - Amongst The Visionaries of Passing Through This project was hosted by Shake Rag Alley Center of the Arts in Mineral Point, WI. May 2021 I spent a week collecting material from their property and used what I gathered to create a figure that exists in the present but at its very essence exists out of time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1623212204773-O42NPOLNEYMEBTV5RCJQ/DSC_0913+2.jpeg Earthbound Installations - AMASS This project was commissioned through ArtStart and installed at Nicolet College in Rhinelander, WI - June 2021. Scavenged wood and wire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1623213414415-9OAU7KD47WPJTQKP3OMA/VanD_Ian_ROT2_2020.jpeg Earthbound Installations - ROT 2020 Medium: Found Wood (by the train tracks, bridges, roads, and scrap piles of Montana) Installed at The Holter Museum of Art in Helena, MT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1710519994915-9TQ4WE5WNF0APWL6HN1M/DSC_0852.jpeg Earthbound Installations - Scarecrows I & II Installed during Art Residency in 2022 at NE Sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1710519459283-9FYGLS9X0D5YJ4RKDD8Q/DeadEarthMassManipulation%232.jpeg Earthbound Installations - Dead Earth Mass Manipulation Each of the sculptures on this page represents another moment or discovery in the process of creating the Dead Earth Mass Manipulation series. https://www.ianvand.art/current daily 1.0 2026-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1714448093714-XHC4F1XCQQJVYGWDAH5S/%3A%3A005.jpeg //Current// https://www.ianvand.art/contact daily 0.75 2024-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e14ef03323ce7646262a110/1710518506537-HDQ3IOZ34JTEJ9LER9UD/DSC_0187.jpeg bio//contact