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"In my recent work I have become increasingly interested in the ideas of flaw and process. Tooling scars, casting irregularities, and odd grain structures have become focal points in my sculptures. Similarly, my drawings and prints gain strength from scratches, ink blooms, and wash outs. In my non-figurative work I depict objects that display a great deal of history. Each mark serves as evidence of an object's past and alludes to the person who created it, used it, or discarded it. A great level of detail coupled with an intimate quietness takes these neglected objects and elevates them to a place where new attention is given to their forgotten plights. Similarly, in my figurative work, certain flaws or disruptions in surface along with a figure's body language or facial expression create the image of an experienced character. Both the figure's personality and the style of the image or sculpture allude to a certain past, and through this an implied wisdom."
Seth Orion Schwaiger, born in Indiana in 1984, spent most of his childhood in a small town in northern Wyoming. He studied at The University of Wyoming from 2003-07. He has also trained outside the states as a studio assistant in Cortona Italy, practicing stone carving (2006) and as a woodcraft pupil at VKV Cultural Center in Kerala, India (2007). From 2008 to 2009 Mr. Schwaiger worked out of his studio in Austin to create Motherhood a large scale, multiple figure work in stone, wood, and cast iron, in memory of Dr. Charles Guerrerio III. This work is on permanent display in The Margot Perot Building of Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas, Texas. The artists work has also been collected in Italy, Germany, the UK, and the US. After relocating, Mr. Schwaiger has exhibited work continually in Glasgow galleries including a solo exhibition in the Pentagon Gallery, as part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art this year.
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