Art dump post!
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lerouxStill ninety days away from acceptance letters (counting to the end of April, even though letters are mailed April 1, because if I count to the beginning of April I am going to spend all of that month COMPLETELY OFF MY HEAD) and I am irrationally tense about this nonsense! So here, have some photos of my work, so that I can feel like I have released it into the world, rather than into the evil clutches of heartless admissions officers.
Moses/Moshe/Musa | Found brass, aluminum, fabric, paper | 32”Wx32”Dx48”H | March 2009
First year assemblage sculpture made out of found objects. There's a bible wrapped in a pillowcase in the nest - it was meant to be a Moses in the reeds thing. First thing I thought of when I saw the wacky seventies brass light-fixture. It was installed outside the library at school.
Thought Map | Paper collage, tea | 12”Wx12”H | October 2010
Collage made from strips of José Saramago's The Double (favourite author, but I didn't like that book. I use it for collages all the time) and a database textbook. It was for a geometry composition assigment in my design class.
W | Dry-point | 7”Wx7”H | September 2010
My first ever intaglio print! I'm well known at school for incorporating my favourite Wonder Woman action figure (I have several, but the SuperFriends one is my favourite) into at least one project per class every year. This print was created by scratching the image into a copper plate, smushing ink into the grooves, and running it through a press. Drypoint is the most basic intaglio printing technique.
Sweater Studies | Paper collage / Graphite & ink | 15”Wx7”H | September 2010
Another design project. There's actually a third one, but it's an uninteresting line drawing. The series was meant to investigate an object via various elements of design; the first is shape, the second is form, and the third not-pictured line drawing was obviously line. I like the juxtaposition of the Serious Drawing and the silly collage. PS I am wearing that sweater right now.
Qu'est-ce que tu vas faire? | Etching with chine collé | 9”Wx12”H | November 2010
Another intaglio print! This one is a soft-ground etching, which was done by coating a zinc plate in a bees wax/tar mixture, scraping away parts of the beeswax through various means, and then etching the exposed areas of the plate in nitric acid, rinse & repeat.
Beast of Burden | Steel, suede, brass brads | 4”Wx4”Dx26”H | October 2010
These are the horse hoof boots I was so excited about back in October! They are super cool. I can walk in them (though they are extraordinarily uncomfortable, being welded steel). The assignment was basically "welded steel + one other material, theme is symbiosis" so everyone in the class did wildly different things, which is cool. I like open-ended assignments.
Toy Ship, rear view | Wood, cotton, sand | 2”Wx4.5”Dx7”H | November 2010
This ship was actually meant to be part of a larger sculpture; it was going to be a basin of water that had a hand-cranked waterwheel inside it and a bellows mounted above so that a viewer could make waves and wind to fuck with the little boat. Unfortunately I ran out of time and only completed the basin and the boat, but the boat itself is pretty cool. It floats and is waterproof, and the sails can be moved so that when you blow on it can swim straight or in circles.
Burnt Offering to the Fire Gods | Plaster, wood, cast aluminum | 14”Wx14”Dx16”H | December 2010
The assignment for this one was to cast an object smaller than a fist in aluminum and then give that little object meaning/visual importance by building something around it/for it to relate to. I cast a matchbook in aluminum and then cast a little aztec-y pyramid in plaster using the basin I'd built for my boat! And then I turned the basin into a plant pot! HECK YES RECYCLING ART. The assignment made me realise how much better art school critiques would be if people would always light their stuff on fire.
Aide-moi | Collagraph | 11”Wx15”H | January 2011
This is a collagraph, which is another intaglio printing technique, but in this case the printing plate is made out of stuff glued to other stuff (collagraph from colle = glue + graph). And I just realised I spelled collagraph wrong in my application portfolios. AWESOME. Anyway, this image was made by de-laminating heavy cardstock, gluing string and tape and sewing thread into it, smushing ink into the texture-y bits, and running it through a press. AWESOMEST ART FORM, NO LIE. I would like to do a million collagraphs. AND I JUST MIGHT.
Moses/Moshe/Musa | Found brass, aluminum, fabric, paper | 32”Wx32”Dx48”H | March 2009
First year assemblage sculpture made out of found objects. There's a bible wrapped in a pillowcase in the nest - it was meant to be a Moses in the reeds thing. First thing I thought of when I saw the wacky seventies brass light-fixture. It was installed outside the library at school.
Thought Map | Paper collage, tea | 12”Wx12”H | October 2010
Collage made from strips of José Saramago's The Double (favourite author, but I didn't like that book. I use it for collages all the time) and a database textbook. It was for a geometry composition assigment in my design class.
W | Dry-point | 7”Wx7”H | September 2010
My first ever intaglio print! I'm well known at school for incorporating my favourite Wonder Woman action figure (I have several, but the SuperFriends one is my favourite) into at least one project per class every year. This print was created by scratching the image into a copper plate, smushing ink into the grooves, and running it through a press. Drypoint is the most basic intaglio printing technique.
Sweater Studies | Paper collage / Graphite & ink | 15”Wx7”H | September 2010
Another design project. There's actually a third one, but it's an uninteresting line drawing. The series was meant to investigate an object via various elements of design; the first is shape, the second is form, and the third not-pictured line drawing was obviously line. I like the juxtaposition of the Serious Drawing and the silly collage. PS I am wearing that sweater right now.
Qu'est-ce que tu vas faire? | Etching with chine collé | 9”Wx12”H | November 2010
Another intaglio print! This one is a soft-ground etching, which was done by coating a zinc plate in a bees wax/tar mixture, scraping away parts of the beeswax through various means, and then etching the exposed areas of the plate in nitric acid, rinse & repeat.
Beast of Burden | Steel, suede, brass brads | 4”Wx4”Dx26”H | October 2010
These are the horse hoof boots I was so excited about back in October! They are super cool. I can walk in them (though they are extraordinarily uncomfortable, being welded steel). The assignment was basically "welded steel + one other material, theme is symbiosis" so everyone in the class did wildly different things, which is cool. I like open-ended assignments.
Toy Ship, rear view | Wood, cotton, sand | 2”Wx4.5”Dx7”H | November 2010
This ship was actually meant to be part of a larger sculpture; it was going to be a basin of water that had a hand-cranked waterwheel inside it and a bellows mounted above so that a viewer could make waves and wind to fuck with the little boat. Unfortunately I ran out of time and only completed the basin and the boat, but the boat itself is pretty cool. It floats and is waterproof, and the sails can be moved so that when you blow on it can swim straight or in circles.
Burnt Offering to the Fire Gods | Plaster, wood, cast aluminum | 14”Wx14”Dx16”H | December 2010
The assignment for this one was to cast an object smaller than a fist in aluminum and then give that little object meaning/visual importance by building something around it/for it to relate to. I cast a matchbook in aluminum and then cast a little aztec-y pyramid in plaster using the basin I'd built for my boat! And then I turned the basin into a plant pot! HECK YES RECYCLING ART. The assignment made me realise how much better art school critiques would be if people would always light their stuff on fire.
Aide-moi | Collagraph | 11”Wx15”H | January 2011
This is a collagraph, which is another intaglio printing technique, but in this case the printing plate is made out of stuff glued to other stuff (collagraph from colle = glue + graph). And I just realised I spelled collagraph wrong in my application portfolios. AWESOME. Anyway, this image was made by de-laminating heavy cardstock, gluing string and tape and sewing thread into it, smushing ink into the texture-y bits, and running it through a press. AWESOMEST ART FORM, NO LIE. I would like to do a million collagraphs. AND I JUST MIGHT.
