Month: November 2010

So, some exciting news, one of my sculptures is going to be exhibited as part of a group show at the Allan Nederpelt gallery in Brooklyn.  The show is up for two weekends, December 4-5 and 11-12.

Press release:
allan nederpelt is pleased to announce the opening of TEAM WORK—a group show that includes seventy-seven artists who work collectively to assist a major figure in the art world.

The exhibition functions as a social-artistic experiment to explore the similarities and differences in the work of this large group of individuals who spend the greater part of their day together. We may also think of it as a search for a common thread that could exist in the work through unified ideologies, aesthetics or artistic philosophies.

By gathering these emerging artists in a group show for the first time, TEAM WORK further explores the collective unconscious, celebrates diversity in a new context and opens up a dialogue for extraordinary conversation. This is a platform for the sharing of ideas and creative investigations.

TEAM WORK illuminates the necessity to create and reminds us of what power there is in participation and community—each voice, insight and expression of the individual is a contribution.

Opening: Saturday, December 4, 6–9 pm

Curated by: Eva Schmidt

Music by: DJ Kirmet, Albert Shelton, and DJ Mayonnaise Hands

Opening night Performance by: Francis Stallings

Performances by: Prema Murthy, Francis Stallings, and Eva Schmidt, Friday, December 10, 8 pm

On view December 4–5 and 11–12, 1–6 pm, or by appointment

Location: allan nederpelt, 60 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222Phone 718.928.4999, www.allannederpelt.com

I’ll be the one with the eye patch, drinking whiskey, and cleaning my gun.  Hope to see you there!

The new year is fast approaching and I wanted to relate what I’d like to work on in 2011.  I have two series in mind, one will include the sculpture ‘Two Figures Pulling Apart’, which will come under the rubric ‘GESTATE’.  I plan on doing a number of sculptures and drawings, and possibly a video as well, detailing the transformation of these figures from a single form into two separate beings.

This is a quick sketch of the single entity, the starting point, the two forms will pull and work their way out of:

The second series will be titled “Fossilized Remains of Imaginary Creatures’.  I will be inventing as many imaginary creatures as I can and writing histories for them.  This series will also be many sculptures and drawings, and perhaps maps, detailing where these creatures lived, if they’re still living, or if they’ve gone extinct.

Here’s a quick sketch I did of the first one:

It’s based on a dream my girlfriend had (Jana is a great sculptor and you can see some of her work at janastockwell.com). The creature must either consume human flesh or wear it in order to survive.

I’ve just started sculpting a skeletal structure for the first creature.  It’s still in a very early and rough stage:

My plan is to sculpt the figure in Super Sculpey and bake it.  Once the pieces are hard I can lay them into softer oil based clay to form the rock they were discovered in.  After that I’ll make a mold and cast them.

Just  a short posting today.  I can hear the collective sigh of relief.  At least I would if any one were reading this.

I thought I’d post a few sculpture pictures I’ve been goofing around with in Photoshop.   Mainly I’ve been altering the contrast and brightness.

This is the sculpture titled ‘Woman Bending Backwards’

I like that it’s dark and hard to make out on an initial viewing.  They’re even harder to make out in the prints because they became grainier.  I showed them to a friend of mine and his first thought was that it was a photo of a cathedral.  He was probably high though so let’s not talk about him.

Here are some pictures of the female god from the sculpture titled ‘A Two God Universe’.

I was playing around with pure colors.  About six years ago I did a series of abstract paintings using a different primary color for each one.  Unfortunately I don’t have any photos of them at hand, but I’ll try to find some in the next few weeks.

Although I think they are strong images, my main concern with the female god photos is that they aren’t cohesive enough to stand on their own. Are they dependent upon the sculpture, or can they exist independently?
Finally here are some images from the piece titled ’Two Figures Pulling Apart’.  They’re taken from a photo of the sculpture while still in the clay stage.  It’s the large connecting chunk of flesh located at the figures pelvic areas.  I used Photoshop to progressively darken the photograph.  Each sequence of darkening brought out a richer tone by creating more pronounced shadows, which helped to define musculature.

Cheers for now,

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