ART & SOCIAL SCULPTURE
Theo Edmonds, a Culture Futurist®, transdisciplinary artist, and quantum storyteller, blends art, science, and business to challenge and expand the traditional role of artists within society. Drawing from their rich Appalachian heritage and diverse professional backgrounds, Edmonds' work investigates the dialectics of consciousness, wonder, and identity against societal conformism through economic production and consumption. Edmonds' art transcends physical mediums, embracing ideas, language, and systems as source materials to explore new possibilities for organizational and societal advancement, positioning creativity as a collective journey towards renewing and transforming the American Dream within the future of work.
SAMPLES OF CONCEPTUAL & SOCIALLY ENGAGED ART
Co-created/Curated/led as Co-founder & Chief Imaginator of IDEAS xLAB | 2012-2018
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Artistic Inspiration & Visual Works Samples
I am a queer, neurodiverse, transdisciplinary artist and culture strategist with a lifetime of experience navigating systems not designed with me in mind. I am on a lifelong journey to challenge and expand traditional notions of what it means to be an artist within contemporary America. My Appalachian roots and diverse professional background inform my work, creating a narrative that excavates the value of tricksters and outsiders to evolve and balance what it means to be human in a person+machine world. My creative work and research examine contemporary consciousness, wonder, and identity expressions against societal conformism and economic production frameworks.
My visual work serves as artifacts of embodied cognition, encompassing elements of found objects, science, experimental theatre, and poetry in rituals of release and transformation. I synthesize folk traditions with fine art, brain science with myth, and spirituality, exploring the coexistence of the tangible and intangible, the eternal and transient, within the visual expression of memory and motion. My work seeks to foster unexpected think/do collaborations between the seen and unseen forces and is inspired by storytelling narratives ranging across:
ancient cave art to the James Webb Space Telescope images,
poetry of Patti Smith and John O’Donohue,
works of conceptual artists like Dolly Parton, Marcel Duchamp, Cher, Joseph Beuys, Jenny Holzer, Pedro Reyes, and Félix González-Torres, and
Bell Lab’s Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) (1960s) to develop collaborations between artists and engineers by facilitating person-to-person contact between artists and engineers rather than defining a formal process for cooperation.
Series Title: COVID Series: Limitations of Light In a City on a Hill
Created: Louisville, KY | March-December 2020
Medium: Watercolor, Ink and Graphite on Paper
Size: 18in x 24in
Older Visual Work
Created: NYC-France-Kentucky | 2008-2014
