Sachs scans his surroundings for potential fodder for his work, pulling a myriad of everyday references into his creative orbit. Playful intent, combined with a desire to upend comfort, social mores, and elitist systems. Sachs also articulates particular phrases and mantras that accompany his artistic persona like sound bites to a manifesto.

Using materials such as plywood, foamcore, batteries, duct tape, rudimentary wires, hot glue, and solder, the artist and his assistants fabricate inventive gadgets, hardware, objects, and architectural constructions translated into a unique homemade aesthetic. Though difficult to box into a single category, Sachs’s practice can perhaps best be contextualized by the term bricolage, or the use of everyday objects and things found in one’s direct surroundings as a means of constructing work.

January 24 – April 19, 2015
The Contemporary Austin
Jones Center, 700 Congress Ave.
Austin