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examples of woodworking and steel fabrication

Dear Sculpture 2 students,

Anytime I’m about to begin a big studio project of my own, I spend some time looking at other artist’s work.  This helps me come up with better ideas. As you’re working on your sketches this week, I think you’ll find it helpful to look at some examples of sculpture created with woodworking and steel fabrication processes.  I just looked through the files on my computer and collected some images from the web that will, I believe, help to illustrate some of the various ways that artists put these materials to use. For most of the images I’ve included the artist’s name so you can do a google search and learn more about their work. You may also want to check out Tim Hawkinson’s work.  There aren’t very many really good images of his work online, though, so you may want to visit this site and watch the videos on his work.
 
Best,
JDM

Roxy Paine – Distillation

Roxy Paine, Distillation, 2010.

The title evokes both the process of alchemy (to distill metals into gold), as well as processes of making alcohol and other drugs. Indeed, the work includes elements such as a large glass vile filled with dirt, and various tubes, that suggest chemical laboratories. The press release indicates that the work is also a “metaphor for the artist’s mental process,” in the way that ideas go through a similar process of distillation and refinement. In an interview with the artist published in BOMB magazine in 2009, Paine discusses an interest he has in “this drive that humans have to constantly break things down into their component parts and isolate them further and further…I have a desire to constantly break things down in a critical way. I’m trying to examine it, why do we need to constantly break things down into component parts?” It appears as though this interest in components and isolation has manifested itself in Distillation. The installation provokes open metaphoric situations for processes such as oil refinement, forcing nature to bend to technology, the creative process itself, as well as the way that ideas move throughout the world and our bodies.

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