Ian Pedigo
1973–

Ian Pedigo (born in 1973 in Anchorage, Alaska), is a sculptor, image and installation-based artist and writer living and working in New York, NY (Queens). Pedigo is known for his use of found materials and combining them with natural and hand-produced elements, producing abstract, conceptual works that are anthropological and artefactual in nature. He views his objects, assemblages and images as acts of discovery, creation, and recovery. His work is largely influenced by ideas of possible worlds as found in Modal Realism, the ethics of humanism, as well as aesthetics-based ecologies found in Jane Bennett's Vibrant Matter.