Welcome to Sculpture I

Welcome to Sculpture I
Enjoy the links. This research will help you understand more about your projects, and provide inspiration for pushing your ideas beyond the expected.

Often after class I will have some ideas to help solve a challenge, or I will post some pertinent research.

I use this blog to post observations and direction, so check it on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

very good examples of opening lines for artist's statements

To read the full artist statement go to the Alchemy on-line exhibition of sculptue and click on the pictures.

http://www.harn.ufl.edu/alchemy/

My practice is characterized by the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th century when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, production, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions.

Bruce Taylor

Canadian, b. 1958

My current work explores issues of individual identity in the sociopolitical context of the western society.

Ivan Albrecht

Serbian, b. 1970

There is a long tradition in art, literature, and film by which the act of war is venerated and integrated into the social fabric. Gore and terror of combat are transformed into a bittersweet adventure of shared courage, sacrifice and nobility.

Pavel Amromin

American, b. 1977 in Belarus

My artwork explores built space and the idea that manmade landscapes express a society’s material and political priorities.

Dylan Beck

American, b. 1980

My work focuses on simple abstract form. I am fascinated by the associations we make as we interpret the world around us, and it is my hope to create objects with a broad and ambiguous reference; forms that are perplexing due to their many allusions

Sally Brogden

American, b. 1963

I am particularly interested in the anatomical and botanical images rendered on the cusp of modern western history. Seventeenth century scientist/illustrators such as Marcello Malpighi and Jan Swammerdam were pioneers in using simple microscopes to explore below the surface of life forms.

Karen Gunderman

American, b. 1951

My sculptures combine Rococo decoration with icons from popular culture.

Beth Katleman

American, b. 1959

Storytelling connects us to one another and explains who we are. In an age in which the individual is often alienated, my work attempts to cut through the isolation by presenting common threads of the human experience

Kirsten Stingle

American, b. 1970

My ideas are a by-product of living. My work in ceramic sculpture has been consistently figurative, with an emphasis on the human condition and/or situation.

Verne Funk

American, b. 1932

I am persistently moved to find beauty in the ragged edges of humanity

Caitlin Applegate

American, b. 1978

I am interested in subtleties – the play of cast light and shadow, a lilting edge, a jewel-like pool of glaze collected in a shallow dip. Such treasures reside on the periphery of our attention.

Autumn Cipala

American, b. 1973

The lure of porcelain has always been powerful, sparking dreams in consumers and makers alike. Seventeenth century Europeans also developed "Chinoiserie," a sort of ersatz "Chinese-esque" set of motifs based more on what Europeans thought Chinese decoration should look like, rather than what it actually looked like. The Chinese responded in kind, creating their own "authentic" Chinoiserie geared for export rather than domestic consumption.

Garth Johnson

American, b. 1973

Ersatz is an artificial substitute differing in kind from and inferior in quality to what it replaces.