assemblagist
[uh-sem-bluh-jist, as-ahm-blah-zhist]
noun
1. an artist who produces works of art using the techniques of assemblage.
Assemblage is an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate.
HINGER began his sculptural journey in California, transforming fragments, tools, and discarded
materials into raw, tactile works that quickly set his voice apart. As a selftaught assemblagist,
he forged a bold aesthetic from necessity— assembling abandoned objects into sculptural
visions that expose the trajectories, tensions, and consequences embedded in our culture’s
remnants.
His commitment to community runs deep: in California he founded ESI Arts, creating public
works with homeless teens, and his Lehighton Letters sculptures now live in children’s libraries
around the world.
Now based in Florida, HINGER continues to build an expansive body of work, including the
immersive tableau POST APOCALYPTIC WASTELAND. His sculptures—excavated, assembled,
and reborn from cultural debris—stand as both warning and wonder, charged with the energy
of reinvention.
