Artist Bio
Born in 1949, Mr. Schaffer obtained his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz and his M.F. A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently maintains studios in Columbus, OH and Pietrasanta, Italy.
"The entire series is based on fractal forms---the shapes created by the ongoing processes of Life, such as the branching of plants to catch the sunlight, the convoluted unfurling of clouds, the formation and fracturing of mountains from the forces within the earth, the jaggedness of the coastline as it interacts with the sea... Because of the non-linear, reflexive nature of real life, these processes tend to follow spiral paths. My sculptures all contain spirals that, instead of illustrating any specific phenomenon, grow in the same reflexive manner as real complex systems."
Craig Schaffer has shown in juried shows around the country and abroad. Public commissions include work for the Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, The Mathematical Association of America, Brown Tower Mathematics Building at the Ohio State University, Baptist Hospital Desoto in Memphis, the Hualien Cultural Center in Taiwan, the Leo Yassenoff Jewish Community Center in Columbus, and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio.
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