Jedediah caesar biography of william
1973: Born in Oakland, CA; Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA; 2001: MFA, University of California, Los Angeles; 1998: BFA, School of the Museum of Fine..
Born 1973 in Oakland, California; lives in Los Angeles, California
The sculptor Jedediah Caesar’s invented medium is an amalgam of found objects encased in clear or colored resin, which he began creating in late 2003, when it occurred to him that he was more interested in materials themselves than in constructing sculptures with them.
Jedediah Caesar received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and his MFA from UCLA.
In an act of metaphorical rebirth, he filled buckets and other containers with leftover scraps of plywood, along with paper, pieces of cloth, and other assorted studio debris. He poured in liquid resin, and when it hardened he removed solid masses of an essentially new kind of material.
He later went on to fill cardboard boxes with bottles, cups, sponges, socks, and other objects that he fused together with resin, and then took the resulting blocks of material to a factory outside Los Angeles where he had them cut with band saws, finally polishing the surfaces to reveal the embedded components trapped like flies in translu