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Monday, February 27, 2023
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Julian Watts, Artist
Below images, consider negative space and balance for the
Experimental Sculpture Collection Assignment.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Elise Siegel, Artist
Portrait Bust with Cobalt and White Underglaze
- 2015
- ceramic, glaze
- 25”x13”x8.5”
Portrait Bust with Lavender Hair and Black Base
- 2015
- ceramic, glaze
- 16”x10”x6”
Pink Bust with Torn Arm
- 2010
- ceramic, aqua resin, paint
- 21"x13"x8"
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Minerva Parker Nichols, Architect, United States, b. 1860 d. 1949
America’s First Independent
Woman Architect
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Ebitenyefa Baralaye, Artist, United States
Sculptor Ebitenyefa Baralaye’s
Ceramic Vessels
Pay Homage to His Ancestry
“Portraiture can serve as a record for people’s families, dynasties, and cultures,” reflects artist Ebitenyefa Baralaye. Following the racial reckoning of 2020 and the death of his father that same year, the Nigerian-born, Detroit-based sculptor has embraced figuration while contemplating his own identity. Two new bodies of work riff on the 19th-century face jugs created by enslaved people in the American South, particularly the work of David Drake, a.k.a. Dave the Potter. “There’s a duality,” Baralaye explains of the objects, which served both practical and spiritual purposes. “It speaks to the pain and agony of enslavement—the objectification of Black people but it’s also a vessel for poetic expression.” Finished in a black satin glaze, his Akanza series mixes his and his father’s abstracted facial features. Meanwhile, his All My Relation series (named after an inscription by Dave the Potter) pays homage to his Nigerian ancestors through an imagined archive of eyes, ears, and noses. Works from both projects go on display February 15 at Friedman Benda’s Los Angeles gallery, alongside large ceramic finials and columns inspired by the work of Yoruba artisan Olowe of Ise and Catalan architect Antoni GaudÃ. A finial, Baralaye notes, has almost as much to say as a face: “As the capstone of an architectural structure, it’s expressive, it describes and exalts the nature and context of a place, it conveys a sense of identity.”baralaye.com
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Hannah Martin, February 2023
Architectural Digest https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/sculptor-ebitenyefa-baralayes-ceramic-vessels-pay-homage-to-his-ancestry
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Friday, February 17, 2023
Morel Doucet, Artist, Miami based, Hails from Haiti, b. 1980
The Brown Menagerie
Media: Glaze Ceramic & Aerosol Paint
Dimension: 10 in X 6 in X 15 In
Year: 2015
Photo by David Gary Lloyd
Brown is the color of rich soil. It is a composite color made by combining red, black, and yellow. The color is widely seen in human hair color, eye color, and skin pigmentation. It is also, according to public opinion surveys in Europe and the United States, the least favorite color of the public. “The Brown Menagerie” examines facets of race, sexism, and fashion through an Afro-Caribbean lens.
https://www.moreldoucet.com/the-brown-menagerie
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Sunday, February 12, 2023
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Visual Symbols Assignment Guidelines
Assignment
Two air-dry clay sculptures that reference the figure and incorporate symbols to visually communicate content and meaning.
Objective
Introduce subtractive approach to creating form and volume as well as hand building methods with a clay based material. Challenge students to use elements and principles to visually communicate content and meaning.
Materials:
- Amaco Air Dry Clay, White
- Must use this clay. Extra clay in the studio if needed.
- Clay Tools
- Available in the studio. Or you may use your own.
- Banning Wheel
- All students use a banning wheel so they may develop a three-dimensional sculpture. Available in the studio.
- Paper Towels
- Place a paper towel between clay sculpture and banning wheel. Available in the studio. Clay will stick to banning wheel if you place directly on wheel.
- Plastic Bags
- Need a clean, no food, bag to place over clay sculpture while working. The bag will keep your clay wet so you can continue working. Some bags available in studio. Please bring your own if possible.
Guidelines:
- Before beginning sculptures, complete semiotics homework. See document in file section in Canvas.
- Sculpture #1 - Subtractive Method
- Reference a figurative bust (shoulders, head).
- Incorporate one symbol into the sculpture by attaching or carving.
- Sculpture should be between 4 and 6 inches in height.
- Sculpture #2 - Choice of Subtractive or Hand Building
- Reference a full figure in the form of organic shapes.
- If you decide to incorporate limbs, must build onto the main "torso" form. Do not have limbs that extend, the clay will break.
- Create ten (10) small scale symbols to accompany the sculpture. Subtractive or hand building.
- Symbols must be three-dimension. Do not make "flat" shapes. Must have height, width and depth.
- Symbols can be all the same or vary.
- Symbols must be separate forms (not attached).
- Choose from the following:
- Create a cavity in the "torso" and place forms in cavity.
- Arrange symbols around the "figure".
- Attach symbols to string/thread and drape over "figure".
- Create small holes in sculpture, attach symbol forms to wire, place wire in holes when all forms dry.
- Sculpture should be between 4 and 6 inches in height.
- Consider these decisions for both sculptures.
- Figurative can be interpreted - does not have to be human figure.
- Tilt of head (with our without facial features) is suggestive of emotion.
- Will you include facial features? What does a sculpture visually communicate if not eyes? Mouth?
Artist Inspiration:
Go to right column index and search "Visual Symbols Artist Inspiration". If on your phone and don't see right column, scroll to bottom and click "web version". Can also go to link below.
https://foundations3ddesign.blogspot.com/search/label/Visual%20Symbols%20Artist%20Inspiration
What to put on your blog:
Refer to document "Blog Checklist" in File section in Canvas.