Kristina (Simon) Jungels Pedestal Project

For this pedestal project, I wanted to create a piece that was simple but dealt with multiple art principles. I drew inspiration from minimalist works and focused on repetition, color and dimensions.  The smallest base for this piece is 10x10 inches, all the way to the top box that is 22x22 inches. Each level goes up in dimensions by intervals of 4 inches. It is made out of wood and is coated with spray paint.

Kristina (Simon) Jungels box and label

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A.Diallo ( African 1985)

Gold Pencil Sharpener

Date: 2015

Medium: 4.5"x 4.5"x 4.5"

Credit Line: gift from the King Of cowries who claims it fell from the sky along with the wooden pencil

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For my pedestal project i decide to make a spear struck into a bark of a tree. I used a broom for the spear, with some feathers and cheetah fabric. The spear has a flag attached to it with embroidery of four countries flags that are each designed as a crest with a cowry shell. The crest are a symbol that i have designed to represent the diaspora in those four countries( America, England, France and Italy) that i have been to.

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For this piece i used the cast of a bottle that was sticking out the trash and spray painted it with white lightly to let the color and texture of the latex uncovered in some parts of it.

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I found this wood frame on the free rack. I teared the mesh off and wrapped it half way on it. the black and natural color are opposite to each other, i decided to leave it as is without adding anymore color to it.

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Again using found objects, this piece of wood has some half way drilled circles on it, using the the spray can i over sprayed into the circles making it leak and feel like a splash.

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Just a piece of styrofoam i got from a box of a blender, i like the shapes on it and decided to use markers to color it.

Kayla Henne - Sculptures

1st Sculpture

When making this piece I really focused on making it playful and fun since my medium was so childish. When putting the whole thing together I wanted to create an interactive piece since I had made crayons. The objects I created was a crayon carrot and crayon piece of celery. I wanted the piece to bring up old memories of laying on the ground and coloring. With vegetables being a huge thing that kids don't like it was humorous to have the crayons be vegetables.

2nd Sculpture

"Dinglehopper"

19th Century Denmark

Donated by King Eric

After his beloved wife's passing, Eric felt her collection of gizmos and gadgets should be donated to The Denmark Museum of Treasures.

 

3rd Sculpture

For the pedestal project I wanted to comment on how some parts of society put certain woman on this very feminine pedestal and talk about how they are just too nice or too innocent to be touched. I decided to make the pedestal very light weight to show how unstable that idea even is. I decided to use the color white because that color tends to represent innocence. I added the flowers to make it even more feminine. I feel like I achieved the feminine aspect of the piece, but I wasn't thrilled about the piece looking like a wedding cake.

 

Pedestal - Tiffany

This piece spurred from a joke, "why don't you make a giant butt and stick your photos in it's crack". Why not. I liked how the pedestal calls attention to an object. For this piece, I wanted to interact the concepts within my photos regarding human sexuality and objectification with a misrepresentation of a three-dimensional butt. I enjoy the play between the direct representation of sexual body parts while the abstract form allows the viewer to project their own ideas onto it – the materials aren't trying to be something their not. After critique it was mentioned that the installation of the piece gave a feeling of sadness, as if it were slumping in a corner. I like resting on this idea of projecting human emotions onto an object. Maybe it's just our natural instincts to connect the two, either way I enjoy directing the conversation toward that direction.   

Vitrine Project - Tiffany

For this project I wanted to contain an art object. The object I chose was a ceramic piece that resembled organic body matter, or a butt. With the title card I wanted to confront the idea of containing this piece within a vitrine, in doing so I titled it Guarded. For me the title represented an emotion between the two objects as a whole, humanizing the concept.

Emily Wendlandt - Pedestal

This pedestal sculpture is composed of found wood planks, wire, a concrete slab, and a found mossy brick.  I was inspired to create a sculpture that can be assembled any place at any time, and this piece was the marvelous outcome.  Since there isn't anything formally holding this piece together, this sculpture is very easy to take down and reassemble someplace else.  In further detail, this pedestal sculpture is held together by one piece of wire, and the weight from the concrete.

Emily Wendlandt - Vitrine

The goal for this vitrine was to create a museum level display and place in it an everyday object.  I recently got a dog, so the typical Milk Bone is a staple in my daily routine.  To play this object off as an artifact I gave it a scientific name, "Lactose Humerus," accompanied by the typical scientific information presented with bones.

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I found this piece of scrap wood in the woodshop, for some reason the shape reminded me of a zit protruding off of something. I colored it red to highten that and used rubber bands again to imply that i was being squeezed, or that it might pop.

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These were a bunch of strange tags i got out of a garage sale free bin. The colors reminded me a lot of tuttles work, and especially the way in which i arranged them. I poured them into a small box and then poured them onto a table. and threw the rubber bands on to change up the shape of the color already displayed.

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I took a sock puppet i had of a dragon, and used rubber bands and clips to abstract it.

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Weekly scupture 9. I found these two hunks of plastic that resembled teeth and rubberbands that really reminded me of the rubber bands i wore while I had braces. I smoke cigarettes and it kind of reminds me of having braces, or something i'm stuck with for a certain period of time that i know can be harmful to me.

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I took some of my deformed faces and stacked them/melted the top wax part onto the face. I simply liked how this piece looked next to my more accurate face sculptures.

project 2 vitrine. martin biondo

For this project I was interested in the artist who was putting dead animals and gnats inside of vitrines to watch them decay. I took 4 mice that I had caught in my apartment with a victory mouse trap and put them inside my vitrine. I really like this piece, and hope that it stops smelling so bad.

project 3 pedestal martin biondo

For my final project i wanted to make a pedestal that was nostalgic and was enough in itself to hold peoples attention, multiple people recognized the toys and imagery and got the nostalgic vibe. It is a literal toy box

project 1 plaster mold martin

This was my first sculpture plaster cast, I wanted to capture an exact replica of my face. I used a strange clay to make the mold of my face. I have always been interested in portraiture and this was another way for me to explore making a likeness of my self. But a more definitive likeness.

Pedestal Project - Emily Hendrickson

My pedestal is a mobile take on James Turrell's Sky Pesher.  It is a 15"x15"wooden cube with an open bottom and matte board top with a 4"x4" cutout for viewing.  The inside is painted white to emulate a gallery space whereas the outside is kept rough to give a DIY feel.  Wooden handles and shoulder pieces with packing foam padding make this designed to easily rest over the head, making the viewers body an essential part of the pedestal.

Lindsay Stassen

Casting Project

Pedestal Project (John Bartell)

Made from fast food boxes that NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE DONATED TO HUAAARGHAH

I intended this project to parody the stereotypical college student diet.  I included packaging for Pizza, pop, pizza, red bull, pizza, juice, juice, chips, and pepto bismol.  Not exactly a healthy diet.  That was pretty much it.  Not much else here save for some glue and wood for holding it together.  Fairly simple project for the finale.

But hey, what can you do?  It's not as though have the most used parking lot on campus -and, by extension, your car - being a lot farther away from most of the buildings than Atwood memorial center, where food is available for purchase on-hand, has anything to do with it.

I wanted to make fake game boy games.  >:(

Object Project (John Bartell)

Description:

One cannot truly say that there is a spool of string just like this one.   From a single throw and disruption of the string itself, the string is arranged in such a way that can never be recreated.  Every cut, knot, or tear in the string is done on individual braids.   “Was the original torn on braid number 495?” “Was that knot on braid 5,022 or 6,379?”  .  No matter how hard one might try, emulating its composition is a truly impossible task. 

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The hardest part was the box itself.  I'm surprised it came out as well as it did.

I literally just took whatever I could get my hands on first when I remembered I had the choice due the next day and went with it.  Originally meant to be used for the casting project, I decided to use it.

I remembered some stuff from my old critical frameworks course - of several ideologies used to critique art, and then something one of my classmates said in passing: They're all bullshit.

So I went with some BS on the individuality on the strings of a small spool and how they can't be replicated.  One could also argue no one would care.

Casting Sculpture (John Bartell)

You may notice that I've uploaded a different version of the sculpture onto the blog.  I did a little revision on it after the critique and went back to work on it to fix some of my glaring errors.

I wanted the piece to sort of simplify the painter's workplace, so I used a lot of the acrylic that I had been using on the weekly sculptures on this project.  Maybe it looks at least a little like a 3-D painting?  I hope it at least looks nice.

The process of creating the rubber latex base didn't go too badly.  It was easy to apply the layers, and I managed to keep the brush free of enough dried latex to at least be useable for painting as well.  I was thorough, I supposed.  I recall I did have a lot of trouble getting the casting right, as well as not breaking the plaster when it dried.  And boy, did it dry quickly...

I recall Horochowski saying my plaster base was the least stable she had ever seen.  Let's just put that behind us, shall we?...

Tree of Broken Dreams (John Bartell)

Well, I was a little upset when this piece of mine didn't make it into this year's student show. >:(

I made this sculpture to vent my feelings out a little.  I just made the tree out of my still largely unused roll of aluminum foil and cut up the pieces of my failed entry and scattered them around for the effect of abandonment.

My pent-up feelings were a bit unjustified, though.  My other entry made it in. So I'm sort of neutral now, I supposed.  :/

Painting Puzzle (John Bartell)

Something that actually looks like it could be displayed. :D

You probably recognize this as the board I used as a stand in a lot of my weekly sculptures.  Since I didn't have any plans to use it in the future, I decided to give it a decent send-off... and cut it into pieces.  How generous of me!

After cutting the board up and rounding the edges, I found it was hard to put it back together simply from the paintings on both sides.  So I didn't - I found I could rearrange it into a number of ways that would look appealing to my eye.  I liked that adaptive aspect of the sculpture.

With that in mind, I probably shouldn't have tried gluing it together afterwards. :(

Clip Dragon (John Bartell)

I still had a bag of clips I had purchased earlier in the semester, and hadn't yet used it.  What to do?...

I used about two-thirds of the bag to create what was going to be a path. Didn't like that, so I experimented a bit.  Then I looked at the broken pieces of plaster from the casting project...

I just used the pedestal (which was actually dried plaster left at the bottom of a bucket) which I painted and split it into pieces.  It was at that point I saw a Dragon that could be made.  And I did.

Sort of lazy in my opinion, but which of my sculptures aren't?