Sculpture Studio: July 2020

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Adrian Villar Rojas, Artist

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/04/13/adrian-villar-rojas-metropolitan-museum-art-banquet-hybrid-sculptures-new-york-met-rooftop/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iALhdzlnQQU

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Lisa Schweikert, Student Work, Ceramic I, 25 Object Collection

A successful body of work. However, photos are not quality and do not show the quality.

For these pieces, I decided to continue to use the coil and slab methods but in a different way. The coils were used to create organs and veins that became almost like a drawing a could be connected. The slabs were thinner and draped over into themselves to become their own entity.

The collection represents the inner workings of the body such as DNA and chromosomes. I glazed some of the pieces a striking red while other pieces are glazed metallic black.

Throughout the entire project, whenever I worked on it or created I was constantly thinking about my own body and the bodies of all other humans and trying to make sense of why I feel so strongly against my own body. Through working on this project I reminded myself, “this is who you are, this is what makes up your body, nothing else” and was able to find peace about my own body.

Allie Crum, Student Work, Ceramic II, Fall 2018

Sound Sculpture

Installed in Molly Wiley Art Building

Statement:

This piece is a visual and physical representation of active tension between two forces. The piece is resting yet also hanging. The forms are simplistic, yet complex in detail. There is a sense of balance and symmetry. The glaze chosen for this piece correlates with the metal chain due to the gold sheen of the glaze. There is an industrial feel to the piece that speaks to intensity and opposing forces. The sound incorporated with this work includes segments of intense wind noises that radiate between the two opposing pieces of clay that create one cohesive work.

Note: The piece has a sound recording placed inside. The tension/weight of the hanging piece causes a slight sway, movement.

Inspiration/Research

https://trendland.com/concerto-for-still-life/

Kobe Elixson, Student Work, Ceramic I, Fall 2018

Stacked Stories

Ceramic with glaze

10 tiles, stacked, largest 4 inches square.

#21 for Response to 20 Sculptures

Statement:

I pursue the position of a narrator; of a storyteller. Ceramic forms have a history of being used as functional records, from Greek amphora, illustrated vessels, and various different relief sculptures throughout history. I work to relate to this culture of story telling upon ceramic canvases, in a much less functional style. My use of engraved and glazed tiles seeks to imitate the pages of illustrated manuscripts, using decorative text and imagery to record things. My ceramic work is of a narrative, personal nature, in which my own inner thoughts and reflections are made open to others, albeit in a way clouded and constructed so as to prevent total understanding. The images are responsive, and not always directly related, but all hold a heavy personal relationship to their respective memory or emotion.