During Art Basel

Thursday, Dec. 1 is the Design District night, there are lots of free events--go see these:

Architecting the Future: Design Miami Satellite Fair in the Palm Lot in the Design District

Bas Fisher Invitational (2nd Floor of Buena Vista Building) Richard Haley solo exhibition

Locust Projects: Ruben Ochoa, Cores and Cutouts

Wynwood:

UM Wynwood Project Space: UM Graduate MFA candidates will new work

Hotbed at New World School of the Arts' Artseen Space is across the street

David Castillo Gallery

Gallery Diet

Cristina Lei Rodriguez at Fred Snitzer Gallery

Wynwood Walls


Dorsch Gallery

Miami Beach:

Art Basel Miami Beach at the Miami Beach Convention Center (student tickets $23)

NADA Fair

Metal Project: Constrain, Support, Display

This project is about creating a relationship between two parts of one sculpture. You will need to bring an everyday object that fits in your hands. You will learn to braze metal, and with this technique, build second object no larger than 2'x2'x2x. Your second object will have 3 functions: it will constrain, support and display the other object. The finished sculptures will be displayed on a table, no part of the "everyday object" may touch the table.

 

WEEK 13

Tuesday 11/15                  INTRO

Thursday 11/17                 Work Day, sketches due, bring "everyday object"

WEEK 14

Tuesday 11/22                   Work Day

Thursday 11/24 no class, Thanksgiving break

WEEK 15

Tuesday 11/29                  Work Day

Thursday 12/1                   Work Day

FINAL EXAM

STUDIO CLEANUP  DATE TBD  (Participation is mandatory)

NOTE: Attendance at the final critique and cleanup is required. Make sure you do not buy your plane ticket to go home before the final exam.

Multiples (collboration) crit 11/15

You will work as a class to create a sculpture consisting of several parts. First, as a group, come up with a category of objects. You will each make one object from this category, which you will reproduce by making one-part molds and then slip-casting the objects. As a group, you will strategize and construct a display mechanism/concept that SUBVERTS the object-category you chose while unifying the individual pieces to make one object or installation. 

WEEK 9

Tuesday 10/18                  Work Day: Make objects

          Sketches due

                                    Joy Pullias--Robert Smithson--Week 9, Tuesday 10/18

http://www.robertsmithson.com/essays/interviews.htm

Thursday 10/20                Work Day: Make plaster mold

                                   

WEEK 10

Tuesday 10/25                  Work Day: Slip casting

                                         Alex Becker--Rachel Harrison--Week 10, Tuesday 10/25

http://bombsite.com/issues/105/articles/3178

Thursday 10/27                Work Day: Slip casting

WEEK 11

Tuesday 11/1                  Work Day: Finish objects & build display mechanism

                                       Nicole Lopez--Los Carpinteros--Week 11, Tuesday 11/1

http://www.loscarpinteros.net/english_press/english_sculpture.html

Thursday 11/3                 Work Day: Finish objects & build display mechanism

WEEK 12

Tuesday 11/8                   Critique 3^rd Project: Multiples

                                        Intro to final project: Metal

Allan McCollum

Allan McCollum  The Dog from Pompeii (1991)

http://interpretingceramics.com/issue008/articles/06.htm 

Your homework is to watch the Art 21video on Systems, which you can find here:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/allan-mccollum/

Do some additional research on Allan McCollum's work and his influences, and come prepared to have a class discussion on Thursday. We will be doing a large-scale collaborative project involving a casting process for the next project.

Bring to class on Thursday: plastic bags (to cover clay), any tools you can use to shape clay, yogurt containers or plastic container for water.

Soft Sculpture (crit 10/11)

Using textiles, create a soft version of an everyday object that is normally hard. Work from an existing object, choose an object that has interesting contours.

Homework for next week 9/20:

1. Collect materials you will use and bring them to class. You will need fabric (any kind, thick or thin, old or new), stuffing (old pillow, packing peanuts, crumpled newspaper, shredded paper), needles and thread.

2. Detailed drawings of the object you will create. Study and draw all sides of the object. Think about the planes and contours that make up the form.

Come prepared to work. You will have two in-class work days, and will be graded on preparedness, time management and class participation as well as your final project.

Project requirements:
Minimum size 6'
No glue
Design and construction well-planned

Considerations
Scale: Blown up, shrunk, or 1:1
Choice of materials
Surface details (you can finish the sculpture however you want, by adding things to the surface, painting, it's up to you)

Calendar

Tuesday 9/20                   Introduce 2^nd Project: Soft Sculpture (Self Portrait)

                                        Sewing & textile demo, practice sewing

          Student Presentation

Thursday 9/22                  Work Day

                                         Sketches due

WEEK 6

Tuesday 9/27                    Work Day

                                         Student Presentation

Thursday 9/29                  Work Day

WEEK 7

Tuesday 10/4                    Work Day

                                         Student Presentation

Thursday 10/6                  Work Day

WEEK 8

Tuesday 10/11                 Critique Soft Sculpture 

Claes Oldenburg pictures for inspiration










Claes Oldenburg's Club Sandwich


Upside Down City


Ice Bag

Sculpture Lab Hours

Fall Semester 2011

Shop Monitor Hours
These are the hours when there will be a graduate student in the wood/ metal area, and it will be open for  you to use the tools.

M & W 2:30-5:30 pm (Valeria)

T & Th 1:30-4:30 pm (Colin)

Fri & Sat 12-6 pm (C or V)

Conjoined Structures (critique date 9/15)

Conjoined Structures

Using the pine wood we will rip in class on the table saw, you will construct two interdependent structures, neither of which can stand without the support of the other. Consider them drawings in space. Together they should occupy approximately the same volume as your body. You will use the miter saw to cut precise angles in the wood in order to create two individual volumes with contrasting formal characteristics (line, shape, texture). Care and precision in creating your angled joints is very important. 

By 9/8, the wooden structures should be ready for a mini-critique. 

The second part of the project is to consider the finish. You may paint your structure, carve away at the wood, or collage any materials you wish to use to the structures. Think about differentiating the two structures from each other, while at the same time creating a unified sculpture.

Finish Fetish: Peter Schjeldahl on California Minimalism

http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2010/01/25/100125_audioslideshow_minimalism

Structure & Collage: content overload-- Thomas Hirschhorn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z10lijMYVQw

 

PROJECT SCHEDULE

WEEK 2

Tuesday  8/30                   Intro to 1^st project: Conjoined Structures (Wood)

                                          Wood shop demo

Thursday 9/1                   Work day

          Project sketches due

WEEK 3

Tuesday 9/6                    Work day

Thursday 9/8                   Work day (in-progress critique)

WEEK 4

Tuesday 9/13                  Work Day

                                        Student Presentation

Thursday 9/15                 Critique Conjoined Structures projects