Arny Nadler’s work explores the predicament of the human form, both its fragility and its dominance in the environment. His sculptures investigate the body in a state of ambiguous metamorphosis. Irregular outgrowths in the material signal erratic germination or atrophy—a disfiguration of appendages. What happens on one side might be wholly unanticipated on the other. By working against symmetry and toward precariousness, Nadler challenges the expectations of wholeness for the body. Influenced by the particular uncertainty of contemporary culture, these strange forms defy disambiguation. Their stilled and puzzled nature is a grasping for truth or a viable belief system.

Arny Nadler is an associate professor at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis where he chaired undergraduate art from 2013-2018. He earned a BFA from Washington University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has received a George Sugarman Foundation grant, a Regional Arts Commission Fellowship and two Faculty Creative Research Grants. His exhibitions include the Newport Beach Civic Center, Evanston Art Center, Turchin Art Center, Sculpture Key West, Western Michigan University, the Catherine Konner Sculpture Park, Todd Weiner Gallery, and the Mitchell Museum, with reviews in Art in America and other publications. He moderated the panel Material Poetics at the 2017 International Sculpture Conference in Kansas City, MO and has presented at the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education Conference and the Mid-America College Art Association Conference. He has been a visiting artist at several universities and colleges.