Fodness explores multiple facets of his interdisciplinary practice including drawing and sculpture. He embraces a latent grotesqueness in pop culture and our current social milieu through his found-object drawings and utilizes elements of low culture and elevates ubiquitous objects—novelty coffee mugs, record album covers, movie posters—through doodles and assemblage.

 

His choice to arrange the exhibition as pairs both implies these works are strengthened by their exchange and augments the overwhelming nature of his artistic intervention, even in the smallest pieces. Fodness also arranges a dichotomy in these pairings between which the viewer is caught. This interchange is most explored through his bronze sculptures, which stand as male-female counterparts despite their non-gendered source with many mouths, eyes, and features with which the audience may interact. His work utilizes autobiography as a point of departure, but then objects take on their own life as direct and unique experiences for the viewer. Within this complex cosmos, the viewer may recognize his own contextual relevancy, and either revel in the bizarreness or become enmeshed in the clutter of our culture, both grotesque and humorous.