Creating sculptures that represent our era and culture, Harvey Scott Kaner recycles everyday objects in unusual ways. Exploiting and critiquing the overabundance that characterizes our modern civilization, Kaner utilizes superfluous items in ways that escape, and even parody, their intended purposes.

Kaner's current work is a striking and eclectic collection of figurative pieces that focus primarily on the use and renewal of found objects.

Each sculpture embodies a factor or factors in the artist's life, interests or attitudes. Displaying an expressive sense of movement, Kaner's works address issues of sexuality and sadness, passion and contemplation.

Kaner breathes new life into what many would consider useless or worthless trash. In this he follows in the footsteps of the great West Coast assemblagists, but approaches the found object in his own way, and to his own ends. Kaner works magic on the mundane by giving new, artistic value to an object, or part of an object, by assigning it a different function. The humor, whimsy, and carnality of his sculptures amuse and stimulate, and also offer a little levity in our all-too-serious world.

Born in Detroit in 1965, Harvey Scott Kaner is an emerging Los Angeles-based sculptor who has been highlighted in solo exhibits and group shows throughout southern California. Kaner earned a Master's degree from the University of Southern California in 1992, and also studied sculpture on his extensive travels through Europe and Southeast Asia. His work is the result of years of experimentation with various media, including stone, bronze, plaster, clay, and found objects. Inspired by nature and by the creations of great artists who preceded him, he readily incorporates his own life into his work.