Elizabeth Lessin

I used plywood, some sort of textured sheet metal, wood scraps and paint. I was most intrigued by Tuttle's use of color, especially when used on unique, unexpected textures. I wanted to use a variety of bright colors to contrast the familiar Tuttle black and white pattern. I replicated the colors on the sheet metal to continue the piece and incorporate the metal into the rest. I went with Tuttle's idea of leaning things on the wall from the floor, giving it a temporary sense. This piece measures about 1.5 'x 1.5' x 4".

Title: Boomerang
Material: Wood

Apx Dimensions: Height: 6 in Width: 6 in

Title: Lamp

Material: Plastic necklaces

Apx Dimensions: 20 in x 6 in

Title: Log Man

Material: Birch Wood, Marker

Apx Dimensions: 10 in x 3 in

Title: Long hair, Don't care

Material: Wood, Paint

Apx Dimensions: 2 in x .5 in

Title: Mountain Scene

Material: Wood, nails

Apx Dimensions: 8 in x 4 in

Title: No Thanks

Material: Birch Wood

Apx Dimensions: 4 in x 2.5 in

Title: Ocean Scene

Material: Wood

Apx Dimensions: 8 in x 7 in

Title: Cluster

Material: Wood, Paint

Apx Dimensions: 10 in x 12 in

Title: Wooden Structure

Material: Wood

Apx Dimensions: 20 in x 15 in

Title: Roar

Material: Aluminum Foil, Plastic Dinosaur, Marker

Apx Dimensions: 3 in x 2 in

Title: Cat

Material: Wax

Apx Dimensions: 1 in x .5 in

Kristina Jungels Weekly Sculpture

This sculpture is made out of painted wood and wire that I attached together. 

This sculpture is made of wood that I painted and cardboard.

This sculpture is made out of found wood and painted cardboard.

This sculpture is made out of a cardboard box, painted tulle, and thumb tacs. 

This sculpture I made out of a found wood circle, probably a craft object, and wire. 

This sculpture is made out of found wood, paper, cardboard and tulle. 

This sculpture is made of wood, cardboard and tulle. 

In this sculpture i started off by painting a can and wood, and adding things like wire, much like most of my other sculptures. But as I was setting it up, I was very fascinated with the shadows the wire was casting on the wall. That is why I photographed it the way it is set up. 

This sculpture that I made I was exploring the use of only one material. The material was paper. I also incorporated paint into it like I have for all my sculptures so far. 

In my second sculpture for this semester, I have created a light free form wire based sculpture. I was still pulling inspiration from Richard Tuttle's work. I was inspired by his work with wire and shadows. I again tried to use materials that would reflect a gentle nature. These materials include a wood block in the shape of a triangle, wire, and white tulle on the top. 

The sculpture I have created above is based off Richard Tuttle's work. After viewing much of his work, I felt like I needed to create something that was simple, but had deeper meaning. I was very inspired by the desert mountain landscape surrounding Tuttle's house and set out to create a minimalist scene about it. I wanted to use some materials that I had on hand for a while, that I was sitting on, waiting for the right project to come about. I felt like that was something Tuttle would do. After seeing some of his works, I knew that I would layer pieces on top of each other to create depth. I tried to use materials that were gentle and subtle, like soft pencil lines, white mesh, and of course wire. I contrasted these delicate materials by placing them on plywood to create a push and pull of solid forms and light ones. I placed the piece on a white wall, about eye level, where the spot lights could hit it and create some shadows.

Emily Wendlandt - Weekly Sculpture

This particular sculpture was inspired by Richard Tuttle.  Tuttle's work shows sensitivity to the relationship between the materials used and their subtle effects on the composition as a whole.  To achieve the essence of Tuttle, I used layers and texture to create space and shadows.  My goal was to let the sculpture "happen" through the materials, while consciously manipulating the composition.  My goal for my future sculptures is to experiment with different materials creating interesting forms or compositions.

                                      

 

  

Kelsey Schweich

WEEKLY SCULPTURES

Weekly Sculpture 1

20" x 3'5"

Inspired by Tuttle's approach to sculpture, I worked through this project quite intuitively. I wasn't sure what I was going to do until we got to take a look at materials provided. I saw the pink foam board and I knew right away that I wanted to use this material. After deciding on that, I remembered that I had a huge sheet of brown paper that I got just the day before in a package of paint supplies. This made me think specifically of one of Tuttle's pieces that we saw on the documentary that was big and a similar shape, paying the most attention on the depth that the paper creates. I did not plan totally what shape I wanted, it was more worked around the original shape of the foam board and then ripping to what I thought looked "right". My process was fast because once I had these materials in my head I knew the rest would come as I worked to get them on the wall. I hung my piece at about eye level so that the viewer can get up close and notice the architecture of the paper. I chose to make my sculpture large because I felt like even though not many of Richard Tuttle's pieces are large, his style is so bold that I thought it was appropriate. 

Weekly Sculpture 2

3" x 8.5"

The idea for this sculpture came to me when I found the sheet of wire. I was helping my dad move stuff out of his work shed and somehow I spotted this little piece that had been cut off at some point and had the smallest bit of spray foam stuck on some of the wires. Right when I saw this random thing on the ground I knew that I wanted to use it for a weekly sculpture. It just called to me. I wanted it to hang on the wall so I first needed to think of a way to hang it without it being noticeable. I decided that I would sew it to a piece of paper in just 3 corners so that it still appeared to be disconnected to the paper. I used needle and thread to sew them together. Then I wanted to add something that would speak to the spray foam in texture and randomness. I decided that melted wax would give me the relationship I was going for. So, I lit a votive candle and waited for it to burn a little. Then I poured the wax onto the four corners, to hide the evidence of the thread, and then near the spray foam, to strengthen their relationship. I was then able to hang it on the wall without problems. Once it was on the wall I was pleasantly surprised with the shadows that were created.

Weekly Sculpture 3

4.5" x 6"

For this sculpture I really wanted to work with the bubble wrap. I only had a little bit so I decided that I would cut out a design leaving out a lot of the bubbles that had already been popped. If the bubbles were popped, with the exception of one that I left for aesthetic reasons, I cut around them. I also had that little piece of cardboard that I wanted to connect to it so I decided to stick them both to some paper. I chose to use a green checkered scrapbooking card stock paper because it went with the aesthetic theme I was going for. I wanted it to look earthy and recycled, or "up-cycled". After assembling the pieces together I thought that I should add something to really emphasize the importance of the bubble wrap but not something that would draw attention from the rest of the piece. I decided to use a different shaded green checkered paper cut in a circle the same size a one bubble. The more I look at this piece the more I think that it starts to look like grapes.

  

Weekly Sculpture 4

4.5" x 6"

Throughout the week for some reason I kept coming back to this piece. I thought that maybe it needed something and I thought maybe that something was more color. All that I did for this was pick out two shades of pink that I thought complimented the greens and the brown. I cut them into circles using the green one as a stencil. I arranged them in a way that I saw as balanced. I wanted to play on them kind of looking like grapes and so I thought that pink would help to do that. Even though I am reminded of grapes and was slightly inspired by grapes I do not think that this sculpture is a representation of grapes. It is more of the essence of grapes. Which to me is like sweet, and earthy, maybe a little sour. Those words are things I think this sculpture expresses.

Weekly Sculpture 5

1" x 11" x 3"

I decided to create this piece after I found this big chunk of plaster stuck in a funnel. It took a little bit of working to actually get it out of the funnel but once I got it I was pleasantly surprised with what I found. I thought that it almost kind of looked like a bone. I wanted to play with that idea of it looking like some kind of bone, whether it be human or alien. In order to get this look I just used some of the sanding tools and rounded off all the edges. I thought that I would leave it looking like this because I think that it resembles a bone but at the same time its not totally representational.

Weekly Sculpture 6

3" x 6"

For this sculpture I was inspired to use materials from our cast and mold project. I always get very inspired during the art making process and these materials were no different. I wanted to use the really runny plaster to make something blobby and I thought it turned out looking balanced.

Weekly Sculpture 7

2" x 4.5"

This sculpture was inspired by the same idea as week 6. I started with the small block of wood and then just pour wet plaster on with my hands layer by layer. I did not have an end result in pictured before starting, I just let the material do all the work for me. After about a week, I came back to this piece and noticed that the plaster wasn't attached to the wood and so I took it off and took a photo of it standing on it's own.

Weekly Sculpture 8

2" x 3"

For this sculpture I took an almost hard chunk of plaster and rolled it in my hands until it hardened. It was interesting to me because the plaster dries so fast. The way it dried on my hand but was still wet ended up making some really small textural details. The best part for me was being able to feel the process of the plaster drying right in my hand. A chunk of basically liquid turned into a rock within 10 minutes, for some reason that is amazing to me.

Weekly Sculpture 9

1.5" x 2"

For this sculpture I wanted to make the same sculpture as I did with plaster. The process to make it was different, though, because instead of using chunks of hot wax I used nearly cooled wax. It was hard because the wax just wanted to stick to my hands but eventually it cooled enough to where it was sticking to itself. 

Weekly Sculpture 10

4" x 6" x 4"

I was very inspired by wax in this piece. I wanted to play with hot wax and see what I could do with dripping it on something. I just used scrap wood that I found to make a random form. I worked very quickly and just put things where I saw a need for them. 

Weekly Sculpture 11

4"

This sculpture started when my water bottle broke. The pink piece is rubbery and the handle to my water bottle. It broke off into aa couple different pieces and I was playing with them during our critique. I tend to get distracted and play with things during class so that's how this process continued. I noticed on the ground this wire and decided to bend it into a loop. Then I thought they could fit perfectly together so I connected the two pieces. I took the picture from above however I assume in another context it might hang on the wall somehow. 

Weekly Sculpture 12

5" x 7"

I have been working on this project since we started our latex mold. I was so fascinated by the way the latex looked when it hardened that I decided to leave a bunch at the bottom of one of my containers and save it until the end of the semester. Now that it is the end of the semester I took it out of the container and cut out a piece that looked the coolest to me. I found a nice block of wood that I thought it would look perfect on. I used some Mod Podge to glue it down. I am very pleased with the results, I think it looks super weird.

PROJECTS

Project 1 - Plaster/Molds

For this project we were asked to make a mold of an item and change its purpose. I decided to look for my item at our local Savers. The item I chose looked like a display cupcake of some kind, had a slightly bubbly texture, and smelled like cinnamon. It wasn't until after making the mold that I found out it was a bath bomb. When I first saw the cupcake I knew that I wanted to try and make my version of the perfect cupcake. My version of the perfect cupcake was much different than the original cream colored cupcake in a red wrapper with cinnamon sprinkled on top. I really enjoyed using paint to create a realistic shine on the frosting and also incorporating real sprinkles to make it seem more real. 

Project 2 - Vitrine/Tag

Project 3 - Pedestal

For this project I wanted to focus on a certain art movement and the one that stood out to me was assemblage. I was especially inspired by Robert Raushenberg. Throughout the process I focused mostly on the materials. The first thing I did was look through a ton of Raushenberg's work and make a list of all the items he used that I liked. I got somewhat of an idea of what I might like to incorporate into my piece. Then I started by going to Savers and finding fabric and Misc. items like the clip fan and the tie. It wasn't until I found the screen at ReStore until I had some kind of an idea of what kind of sculpture I wanted to make. I had a vague idea of what I wanted things to look like but was more attracted to the idea of things coming together as I went along. I ran into some technical difficulties a long the way that led me to have some of my piece hanging on the wall. Once this happened I realized that this was no longer a pedestal and really didn't fit with the project guidelines but I really liked where my mind was headed so I stuck with it. I really love painting to once I put it on the wall it really became alive to me and I started working on the piece as a 3 dimensional painting. I tried to take into account all sides of the piece but it was not up to my standards due to time/money constraints. Overall I am very happy with this piece. I have come to really enjoy this way of working and I not only learned a lot during the process of making it but feel like I have developed a certain style with this that I am sure will continue into other works of mine in the future.