Example 1

Student work

3D Foundations course

Mass, Volume, Texture and Rhythm project.

Materials: Birch dowels and all-purpose joint compound over polystyrene foam.

Example 2

Student work

Course: 3D Foundations

Project: Group (of 3) installation addressing mass /volume, rhythm, and site-specificity.

Material: Steel wire and hardware cloth with black paint.

Size: Around 20’ long, and 24” out from wall on right hand side.

Example 3

Student work

Intermediate Sculpture course.

Sound, Light, or Motion project (installation detail)

Heat formed plastic wrap, fan, wood, and colored lights.

Example 4

Students work

Intermediate Sculpture course

Sound, Light, or Motion project.

Detail of class’ work as installed a critique.

Example 5

Student work

3D Foundations course.

Drawing in 3D project. Project assigned to address issues of representation vs. abstraction and stylization; also Line & Volume, Value & Pattern, Emphasis and Economy of Means.

Approximately 8” x 32” x 24"

Material: Steel wire.

Example 6

Student work

3D Foundations course

Portrait of a shoe project. Addresses observation & representation, Planar Construction, 3D pattern making, laminating, organic form.

Material: Masking tape (project shown with its subject/model)

Example 7

Student work

Figure Sculpture course.

Project: 26” Figure study.

Assignments coinciding with this included to study the skeletal and muscle anatomy—from handouts, charts, and articulated skeleton in studio. Project objective was for students to improve their observation and measuring skills as demonstrated in the proportion of their clay figures. Students made their own armatures.

Oil clay over armature of aluminum wire and black pipe.

Example 8

Student work.

Sculpture: Mass course.

Figurative Mass/Partial Figure project: Assignment covered simple armature for small clay modeling, silicone caulk mold with a plaster mother mold, and lost-wax process with traditional investment. Students did their own wax work, investing, kiln loading, bronze pour, devesting, chasing & welding, and mixed and applied the patina.

About 15” tall

Example 9

Sculpture: Mass course

Sculpture: Mass course.

Figurative Mass/Partial Figure project: Assignment covered simple armature for small clay modeling, silicone caulk mold with a plaster mother mold, and lost-wax process with traditional investment. Students did their own wax work, investing, kiln loading, bronze pour, devesting, chasing & welding, and mixed and applied the patina.

About 5” tall

Example 10

Student work

Advanced Sculpture Studio course

Marble carving project

About a 12” long

Example 11

Student work

Sculpture: Mass course

Carved Doubles project: Class assignment was to explore (through sketching and brainstorming) the different connotations of the word double; and then choose a specific meaning to interpret by carving a sculpture that exists in two parts.

Students choose their own materials.

Fieldstone (some sort of limestone) and wood. The wood was split from a section of a tree downed by a hurricane the previous semester.

Example 12

Student work.

Sculpture: Mass course

Carved Doubles project: Class assignment was to explore (through sketching and brainstorming) the different connotations of the word double; and then choose a specific meaning to interpret by carving a sculpture that exists in two parts.

Students choose their own materials.

Plywood and limestone.