La identidad

This sculpture has a lot of meaning for me and the spectator who watches the piece. is a question of your true identity in society, knowing what is trying to stopping you, are you willing to go back to that? With this in question I try every possible thing not to go back to the traditionalist way of thinking with a string barrier and a shield instructed to me by my ancestors. In a sense, I use everything they thought me and new reason to overcome this obstacle.

Ostrich

Flowers

These steel flowers are organic shapes that move the way flowers move in nature.  

Mermaid

Sasha Coblenz

Mermaid

Aluminum, sand, glass

2008

This mermaid proved to be a challenge in the sense that making the foam mold was very trying. I learned so much about mold making and different types if foam bodies that it was well worth the investigation that took place surrounding this piece.  I am pleased with the end result as the cast mermaid appears to be sunken at the bottom of the sea and then perhaps placed in a museum case. 

Adam and Eve

Eve and Adam 

Sasha Coblenz

ceramics, mixed media

2008

     This work is symbolic of adam and eve's sensory awakening within the garden of eden. The quote on the crate is taken from Paradise Lost, by John Milton.  Our becoming aware has lead to our ultimate downfall and this work is meant to convey that. The fruit each have a representation of the five senses attached to them and the skin area are covered in brush-able latex to give them a feeling of actual skin. They are painted in acrylic. 

Group project 

Title: Bubble

Medium: Plastic

Date: 2008

Evolucion Organica

Title: Evolucion Organica
Medium: Mild Iron and wood
Size: 8' x 4'
Artist: Jose Ruiz Ahorrio

My Lion

This piece is about capturing the essence of a lions beauty, strength and ferocity but to different moments in a viewers experience.  The image of the lion is only revealed at one particular moment.  At all other times, the piece still captures the essence and beauty of a lion, but in forms that are either lost or abstracted.  As a viewer moves around the piece, the moment of discovery occurs when the abstract forms align to reveal the lions form.  This experience of discovery and revelation is the main premise behind the piece.  

To me, lions represent the way I see my mother.  She was recently diagnosed with and untreatable medical condition, and she has  been facing this newly discovered information with such strength and optimism that an onlooker would never know, unless they looked closely and put together the pieces.

Dana's Mean Sculpture

Here are my crazy spikey dangerous forms.  

http://johnharoldtransue.blogspot.com/

Untitled

call me on your way back home

Se Fue 'pal Norte

Se Fue 'pal Norte
EMPV
2008
Mixed Media

The sculpture started as an idea I've had for some time of building a small portable studio in which everything that I created in the space was going to become a part of it in some way (by drawing or painting directly in it, etc). The concept gave me a really strong starting ground, and then a flood of ideas clearly determined the aesthetics and design of it. Purposely the space resembles an improvised house seen in very poor neighborhoods in Latin America, and it is big enough for me work comfortably but still in a very constricted small space.

work

Whoa, I hope I am doing this right.  These are mean dangerous little pieces.

Plek

Plek
Laura Nejman
3'x3'x6'
Paper and Paint

The Great Escape

The Great Escape

Sheila McGinnis

2008

Vinyl, acrylic, paper

This sculpture began with the intention to create a physical representation of how I imagine ideas are created. What started as a womb-like bubble, quickly began to fall apart despite my attempts to save it. My frustration building, I decided instead to cut it apart. While the result is far from optimal, its insides and origami “babies” spilling out onto the floor, the idea machine became a metaphor for how ideas can often go tragically awry, and yet work out in more surprising and interesting ways.

Good form.

As a child, I was sad when I lost a crayon, but never white. I'm just realizing that now.
Happy Harry's sells art cups, which I choose to use sparingly.

She confessed, "It is those moments that we live for"

She Confessed, "It is those moments that we live for"
Dani Galietti 
2008
Double Video Projections

When you communicate with another person you each have your own experience of that situation. Due to disparities in language and perception between people you can never quite fully understand what they are trying to say, explain, or express, especially when it comes to abstract words. So much of what the other person is trying to communicate is lost with your translation of it. Though within communication there are those times when you have this unspeakable mutual connection, and there is this "spiritual communion". They are those transient moments that we live for and seek to find.

This piece employs two perspectives of a situation. This situation was a lighted glass fish tank of water propped onto a bass amp in which a track composed of various field recordings was played through. The sound played through the amp caused the water and in turn the reflection to vibrate. The response of the water and the reflection of the light to the sound were recorded separately.

 The left is a video projection of lighted water, whose form is mimetic of the glass tank it was placed in. The right is a video projection of the light reflected off of the water, whose form also is mimetic of how it appeared in situation. The projections appear to just be dissonant static, though for a fleeting moment they will line up.

The process of the entire piece employs this idea of "lost in translation". The projections which become two differing abstract landscapes work to attempt to visualize two different perceptions of a situation (the sound). Through their existence they encounter these transient moments of unity and connection.