It was a day of walking and sculpture for my sculpture and 3D Design students. The Coastal Discovery Museum was host to a bi-yearly sculpture exhibition on their grounds which featured myself and 18 other sculptors from across the continent.
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From our time at Storm King, we took in the Dia Beacon to see more sculpture but this time under a roof. Some of the artists I was looking forward to to seeing, Smithson, Judd, Flavin, Heizer, Beuys and the Bechers to name a few.
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The Building was a printing facility for Nabisco and is located on the banks of the Hudson River and has a number of exhibitions, permanent collections and educational features.
Travels to Storm King Sculpture Center to take in the natural beauty and some monumental sculpture. The general shot from on top of an earthen mound was the Mark Di Suvero field that had a number of sculptures of his that range in height from 35 to 65 foot tall. David Smith, Andy Goldsworthy were present aside from Calder, Kadishman and Aycock and many more. Took in the park for two days walking the grounds mostly by foot and also taking in the museum house that included permanent and rotating exhibitions.
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This video installation was from an Intermediate Photography student working with projection mapping and was one of the first displays for our community display in cooperation with Salt Gallery (downtown Beaufort). The work consisted of five stop motion animations shot with a DSLR, edited in Premier, and then mapped using VPT (Video Projection Tool). The window was covered with semi-transparent plastic and projected from inside the room for 3 weeks.
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Second project incorporated video mapping with VPT software, found objects and video editing in Adobe Premiere. The car door was found on site of an old salvage yard where the footage was captured.
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3D Design is finishing up their first project called “Material Transformation.” Students had to model a new version of the found object they selected from another material. They could only use one adhesive or cold connection material to construct their sculptures + the scale had to be changed. With Critique next week, more images will follow to show other students results.
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This student is building a fire extinguisher out of wooden matches. With the introduction of the project, historical references were made, that include Claes Oldenburg’s soft sculpture and his element of humor.
Aside from exhibiting a current body of fiber work, visiting artist and educator TeaYoun Kim-Kessor (Georgia College, GA), gave a workshop on ancient fiber techniques. Students learned the basics of creating intricate patterns presented during the workshop. Kim-Kessor noted that some of the tapestries would take months of tedious knotting to complete one work.
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It has been fun and crazy at the same time as the studio and students grew and produced some great results. In the picture is the final project (metal casting) and two-part mold project. Casting for metal were out of aluminum and for cold casting consisted of plaster, wax, resin and plastic.
This was the first time metal casting has been done at USCB. Students from other classes stopped by to see the molten metal being poured. Most of the students helped pour and we did 4 heats of aluminum in one class period.
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Above shows a raw casting just removed from the mold and to the right a student cutting away the gating of their casting and cleaning it up.
Seniors just had their opening reception this Friday. Types of artwork included painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and installation. The last image is a time lapse projection using video mapping software. Art students, faculty and members of the community including the mayor were in attendance to show their support for our seniors.
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