J. Reto

About

Artist statement

Problem solving is the primary motivating factor in my work. I see myself as a facilitator more so than an artist; setting up creative challenges for myself in which the final works emerge from an ad hoc sensibility and a malleable understand of art history. I derive influence from such art movements as: Art Brut, Fluxus, and Object Trouve`; and artists such as: Joseph Cornell, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Julian Schnabel, to name a few.