Art research project Sculpture

1. Art research project Sculpture Nicole Cam

2. History of sculpture Photography • Sculpture - among the first subjects to be treated in photography • Immobility of sculpture • Desire to document, collect, publicize, and circulate objects • Photographers – reinvent

3. Jessica stockholder - short bio • Born 1959, Seattle, WA • Lives and works in New Haven, CT • Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture

4. ARTISTIC CAREER • Paper -> Unstretched Canvas -> Bits of Cloth -> Filled a Whole Space • Space, not a critique, but an exploration

5. ARTISTIC CONCEPT • 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.”

6. It’s not over ‘till the fat lady sings

7. It’s not over ‘till the fat lady sings • “Energetic, cacophonous, & idiosyncratic” • Formal decisions about color, composition, and tempering chaos with control.

8. 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."

9. 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."

10. SARAH SZE • Born in Boston, MA 1969 • Lives and works in New York • Graduate from Yale University, Summa • Cum Laude • Married, and has two daughters

11. Artistic Concept • Uses everyday objects • Electric lights, fans, and water systems • Themes: Light, Air, & Movement • Mirrors qualities of cities, labor, and everyday life. Art History, architecture, and Popular culture.

13. notepad Materials: Offset color lithography, laser engraved Somerset bookweave paper and Strathmore Bristol paper, on archival museum board

15. TIM HAWKINSON • Born in San Francisco, CA 1960 • Lives and works in LA, CA • Received MFA at UCLA

16. Artistic concept • Uses everyday objects and also store-bought • Range from Small to Huge • Own Body • Theme: Life, Death, Music & Passage of time

17. uberorgan

18. UBERORGAN

19. UBERORGAN

20. PENTECOST

21. PENTECOST

22. BIRD, Egg, Feather

23. VIDEOS • 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