Virtual Open Studios Fall 2020: ART 10E - 3D Foundation
Instructor: Kathleen Perry Dyer
Elijah Solow-Ohashi
Elijah Solow-Ohashi
“Bird haus”
Cardboard and hot glue
Fionna Chuang
Fionna Chuang
“Delicate Objects: Chains”
Printer Paper & Tape
This paper sculpture is part of a series, “Delicate Objects”. This particular sculpture attempts to represent a pile of chains and is made to cast unique shadows depending on its placement.
Fionna Chuang
“Cereal Archways and Shapes”
Cardboard, Vellum, & Tape
This cardboard sculpture depicts a hexagonal room with arched windows and entryway. The addition of vellum on the windows and ceiling manipulates the light source and shadows. Within the structure, there are many details varying in volume, furthering the exploration of plane and space.
Fionna Chuang
“Hidden, Lost Things”
Yarn, Glue, & Hand-Knitted Blankets
This piece represents the contrast between positive (warmth, comfort, & security) and negative (weak & fragile) emotions. Both the sculptures and the blankets are made out of yarn, highlighting the differences between them. While the tightly knitted blankets cover a lot of positive space, the teal yarn sculptures do not. The teal pieces attempt to create a solid and strong form, similar to the knitted blankets, but they fail with more negative space than the blankets. Unlike the blankets, which eases the eyes as the yarn flows down uninterrupted, the teal pieces are unorganized and chaotic, appearing more fragile. Furthermore, there isn’t a clear symmetry or rhythm in the placement and formation of the teal sculptures.
https://youtu.be/W-mYX4kGhKQ
Fionna Chuang
“undefined objects”
Video; Play-Doh & Miscellaneous Objects and Sculptures
This video is an ephemeral performance through shadows. Many different objects, including Play-Doh sculptures, are used. However, the shadows do not capture every detail. There is no real sense of depth and texture. The size of each object or sculpture is also manipulated depending on how close they are to the light source. Without knowledge of what materials were used (their size, texture, color, weight, flaws…), these details are left to the viewer’s imagination. The Play-Doh sculptures are the main focus, creating a visual narrative as they are modified.
Huan Ye
Huan Ye
“Nature Diary”
Due to the pandemic effect of the year, I have been self-quarantined for half a year since March. On September 13th, I returned to my home country and started learning via online classes. Now I don’t need to stay indoors anymore and go out whenever I want. So as a result, I go out every day and spend time in the woods outside my house. In this project, I want to make a sculpture of my daily adventure in nature. The ideal emotion I want to express is peace and beauty. Collecting items from nature is one of my hobbies. The motivation of this project is to restore the scene or the place when I found the items. Whatever is a leaf I found in a pool, or a fruit seed I found in an unacquainted fruit. Just like the title of the project, it is my own sculpture diary to document my track in nature
Matilda Krulder
Artist statement:
This sculpture is an homage to memories and is a metaphor for the creation that springs from loss. Wire is flexible and easy to change, as is memory. My family only has one picture of our past home, which was lost in the Paradise Wildfire of 2018. I recreated the house almost fully from memory, which is where it now lives, and discovered although there are many details I remember, there are some pieces lost or changed forever. This, however, enabled me to create a more emotionally expressive piece. In order to display this emotional vulnerability in my photography, I inversed the light values to draw attention to the contrasts and freedom in the wire structure. I also took the photos in pine in order to pay homage to my lost canyon home.
Matilda Krulder
Driveway View
Wire
A front perspective of my childhood home photographed from a low angle so as to bring the viewer into the scene.
Matilda Krulder
Staircases from the Side
Wire
A side perspective of my childhood home in order to display the various angles and detail within the sculpture.
Matilda Krulder
Loose Construction
Wire
This photograph is meant to accentuate the emotional congestion of this piece, as well as to offer the viewer a new viewpoint for the angles.
Sarah Niles
Sarah Niles
“Emotional Web”
Cotton Rope & Redwood Trees
This piece is supposed to exemplify the beauty of the redwoods and their complex relationships with each other as a distinct cluster in the forest. The bright white rope highlights the connection and relationship between this cluster of redwood trees.
Sarah Niles
“Emotional Web”
Cotton Rope & Redwood Trees
This is another perspective of this line sculpture, for it shows the complexity of the interconnectedness between the Redwood trees, which is communicated through the complexity of the connecting lines.
Sarah Niles
“Death and Rebirth”
Cotton Candy, an Apple, & Red Paint
This piece is an ephemeral art piece in which I poured wet red paint over a structure made out of cotton candy, and as the cotton candy deteriorates, a red apple is revealed. This process is an attempt to embody the relationship between death and birth. The red paint can be read as both blood and after birth, for the harsh red on the cotton candy shows its decay while also illuminating the beauty of the apple’s birth.
Sarah Niles
“Death and Rebirth”
Cotton Candy, an Apple, & Red Paint
This image shows the ephemeral piece in its dried form. The apple looks healthy and youthful in the beautiful red, while the cotton candy has been completely destroyed though its remains can be seen through the dried “blood” surrounding the pristine apple.
Veyd Yewle
Veyd Yewle
“Paths Converge”
Twine
This installation works with line and perspective, using twine and tape spread across my hallway to all circle around one point.
Veyd Yewle
“Peace Persists”
Burnt Kerosene on Wood
This piece is the product of my ephemeral art project, where I drilled holes into wood to create a peace sign, put twine covered in kerosene over it, and lit it to show that through trying times peace and positivity still persists. This can be seen by the fact that the peace sign is still there after the fire, even bolder than before.
Veyd Yewle
Cardboard
I used cardboard to replicate a couple walls I saw that were converging in a very interesting way. It deals with certain angles and perspective, along with plane and space.
Zoë Hruby Linstrom
Zoë Hruby Linstrom
“Shrimp Goggles”
Steel Wire, Sheet Plastic, and Thread
These goggles were created to mimic the extensive color-absorbing abilities of the Mantis Shrimp which far surpasses those of humans by layering varying hues of hand-colored lenses over each other to create a vividly disorienting experience for the wearer.
Zoë Hruby Linstrom
“For the Long Run”
Steel Wire, Cardboard, Sunflower Seeds, and Hot Glue
“For the Long Run” was designed to convey the turbulent emotions associated with working long periods that require stamina one simply doesn’t have, thus choosing to supplement it with substances such as sunflower seeds. Representing as a thin, wire creature rendered immobile by the weight of the substance of choice staring at a pile of eaten sunflower seeds, the creature understands the overwhelming long haul and heavy road ahead of it.
Zoë Hruby Linstrom
“Desert Plot House”
Cardboard and Hot Glue
“Desert Plot House” was inspired by the minimal yet unsettling “alive” architecture found in California’s deserts, specifically the Salton Sea region which was formerly a vacation destination and now is an over-saturated wasteland. Using a minimal color palette and found cardboard attempts to help the viewer empathize with the environment of the structure- empty and lonely, yet perhaps only dormant in slumber.