Elemental has been a great opportunity to share my most recent body of work with several institutions and audiences around the country. I would like to thank MOCA GA, The Charles Loridans Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for providing me with the Working Artist Project Fellowship, which has made this show possible. I’d like to thank Matthew Callinan, Laura McGrane, and the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery for their invitation and coordination of the show at Haverford College and Tom Bonner and the Mellon Residences program for helping make the residency at Haverford possible. I would also like to thank Annette Cone-Skelton for her generous vision; Ashley Schick for all of her support and hard work as a studio assistant; Buzz Spector for his wonderful essay and lifelong inspiration; and Brian Holcombe of Saltworks Gallery for his support and guidance. My most sincere and personal thanks go to my wife, Olga Serna, and our daughter Isabella for allowing me to stay focused on my work in the studio while helping me to stay balanced outside of the studio.

— Brian Dettmer