Nicole CamART RESEARCH PROJECT SCULPTURE
Sculpture - among the first subjects to be treated in photography
Immobility of sculptureDesire to document, collect, publicize, and circulate
objects Photographers – reinvent
HISTORY OF SCULPTURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Born 1959, Seattle, WALives and works in New Haven, CTDirector of Graduate Studies in Sculpture
JESSICA STOCKHOLDER - SHORT BIO
Paper -> Unstretched Canvas -> Bits of Cloth -> Filled a Whole Space
Space, not a critique, but an exploration
ARTISTIC CAREER
Brings together common objects and raw materials.Somehow invites magic and the possibility of turning
items we normally perceive as having little aesthetic value.
Work -> optimistic, energetic, fun.Color makes her work more abstract, “it always
asserts itself as independent of material.”“I use material as a place to make fiction, fantasy,
and illusion.”
ARTISTIC CONCEPT
IT’S NOT OVE
R ‘TILL THE FAT
LADY SING
S
IT’S NOT OVER ‘TILL THE FAT LADY SINGS
• “Energetic, cacophonous, & idiosyncratic”
• Formal decisions about color, composition, and tempering chaos with control.
KISSING THE WALL
"Lights plug into the wall and call attention to the electrical wires that are in the wall. It’s static to look at these light bulbs. They don’t do anything. It’s a static, still image that the lights present. But it is an event because electricity moves, and the electricity is active in the wall. So, conceptually, I like it that the stillness of the work is disrupted."
SWEET FOR THREE ORANGES
"I used a lot of oranges because they’re orange! Here they were in this birdcage. And I like that they’re orange and they have a beautiful color and that they’re so luscious- almost a cliché of beautyand sexuality. Oranges immediately bring all of that up. And for me they are also like electricity on the walls. Though they’re participating in the work like a still life, in fact they’re degenerating and changing, and they’re fluid."
SARAH SZE
• Born in Boston, MA 1969• Lives and works in New York• Graduate from Yale University, SummaCum Laude• Married, and has two daughters
Uses everyday objectsElectric lights, fans, and water systemsThemes: Light, Air, & Movement Mirrors qualities of cities, labor, and everyday life.
ARTISTIC CONCEPT
Art History, architecture, and Popular culture.
NOTEPAD
Materials: Offset color lithography, laser engraved Somerset bookweave paper and Strathmore Bristol paper, on archival museum board
Born in San Francisco, CA 1960Lives and works in LA, CAReceived MFA at UCLA
TIM HAWKINSON
Uses everyday objects and also store-boughtRange from Small to Huge Own BodyTheme: Life, Death, Music & Passage of time
ARTISTIC CONCEPT
UBERORGAN
UBERORGAN
UBERORGAN
PENTECOST
PENTECOST
BIRD, EGG, FEATHER
Jessica Stockholder - http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-jessica-stockholder-in-play
Sarah Sze – http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-sarah-sze-in-balance
Tim Hawkinson – http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-tim-hawkinson-in-time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd9nU1J7QMo
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