Artist Research 6: Gerard Caris

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Artist Research 5: John Mccracken

Artist Research 4: Giambologna

Artist research 3: Emil Alzamora

Mason's Artist Research

Andy Goldsworthy

This guy is awesome; he makes most of his art straight from nature surrounding him. He has to have the most patience out of just about any human being in the world. A lot of his pieces are balancing acts using completely nature and most could crumble down at any time in the making. A lot of his work does crumble half way through building but he just keeps working on it until it’s finished. I hope one day I can have half the patience this guy has.    

Sukhi Barber

Sukhi is a UK artist and spent 12 years in Nepal studying Buddhism. A lot of her reflects on her trip, her work is all about peace and balance. She studied sculpture in art school before she started traveling. Her work shows and intensive process but still reads extremely balanced and peaceful. I really enjoy her theme and idea behind her work.

  

jason decaires taylor

This dude has the craziest sculptures under water. When he was growing up he explored the coral reefs around where he lived.  He got a dregree in sculpting and became a diving instructor. He decided to incorporate his sculpting with his diving and out of that came an awesome series. He takes people from real life and sculpts them full size then sinks them under water and has the water do it’s work on the sculptures. He creates like little colonies of people underwater. This guy just did what he really liked to do and went with it. If I can do that, that’d be ideal.

    

Jea-Hyo Lee

This guy is intensive as intensive gets. He suspends rocks together almost making them look floating from the ceiling. He makes this crazy furniture that is made in a way nobody else would ever think of. All of his stuff is amazingly interesting, I couldn’t see anyone not liking his work because it’s hard not to respect how much work this guy puts into every piece. He works in a ton of sculptural mediums.     

Yong Ho Ji

Korean artist, this guy’s work is very interesting. He makes all of his pieces with recycled tires. You would never believe the shit this guy makes with tires. All he depicts in his work is living organisms, mostly animals and humans. His realistic style of rendering the tires is craziness. His work is very nice and you can tell he takes his time on his pieces.    

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

This power couple work on very large-scale pieces that they don’t have the money for. These guys have the mindset I really hope I can have one day. They have a vision of what they want to do where they want and make it happen. They did a project in Central Park that cost 21 million dollars. It’s hard enough to come up with that much money but they also have to convince the park to let them do this shit and they’re extremely convincing. They have this up for a short amount of time but feel like they have to make it happen. He makes the money by making paintings and drawing of what his overall piece will look like. I hope I can have the ambition of this couple someday.  

 

Artist Research 2: Seo Young

Article: http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/seo-young-deoks-bicycle-chain-sculptures-are-off-the-chain.html

Seo Young, created these human figures out of bicycle chains for his Dystopia gallery earlier this year. Alot of the works took months, even over year being welded together. He says by using the bicycle chain replaces the purpose as a machine part and creates new life.

The first thing that these remind me of are those broken Greek marble statues. It shows these beautiful detailed bodies and they are missing limbs. Also the just the amount of time and attention to detail is amazing. You can really see that he spent a lot of time working on these pieces

Artist Research 1: Berndnaut Smilde

Article I Found: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/artist-berndnaut-smilde-creates-indoor-clouds/2012/03/13/gIQA7yAT9R_blog.html

His Website: http://www.berndnaut.nl

Berndnaut is a Dutch artist from Amsterdam. He creates a bunch of really cool installations with these ventilation systems and recenetly did the pieces where he created nimbus clouds inside a room. He used science! He controlled the humidity and all this other stuff in the room and released a burst of mist and came together to make this cloud inside the room.

While this may not be a sculpture per say but it is a three-dimensional work. It only lasts for a second but it does focus alot on the space it occupies. It's one of those pieces of work that you have to experience, but the photographs alone are just as surreal. It almosts starts to blend performance art and sculpture, the performance being the sculpture disappearing. Quote by him about the piece.“It’s there for a brief moment and then the cloud falls apart. It’s about the potential of the idea, but in the end it will never function.” I really enjoy looking at the photographs because they're very surreal and dreamlike which is an important aspect of my artwork. 

Nimbus, 2010

Cloud in room
Lambda print, 75x112 cm
Probe#6, Suze May Sho, Arnhem
www.projectprobe.net

Nimbus II, 2012
Lambda print
75x112 cm
Hotel MariaKapel, Hoorn
photo: Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk

Nimbus D'Aspremont, 2012

Lambda print
75x110 / 125x184 cm
Kasteel D'Aspremont-Lynden, Rekem, BE
photo: Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk

Artist Seven: Ray Villafane

Ray Villafane is a professional pumpkin carver. Well, that's probably not his actual title, but it sounds good.

Ray Villafane was born to a poor farming family. He whittled his own toys out of wood. Eventually his family was so poor that they actually ran out of wood (damn kids using up all the fire-building materials) and he had to start carving toys out of pumpkins. You can't make this stuff up.

Villafane graduated from SVA in New York City in 1991 and has been featured on countless TV shows. In 2010 he carved pumpkins at the White House.

Carving pumpkins, eh? That's impressive, I gue--

Oh my god.

Oh my god.

OH MY GOD.

*prolonged screams of terror*

The reason I find Ray Villafane's work so profound is that it completely defies people's normal idea of "pumpkin carving". He's not carving holes into it. He's carving shapes OUT of it. Like marble.

Sweet, creamy, orange marble.

I love the expressions that he incorporates into his design. They're cartoony, but anatomically accurate, and SO expressive. I love how he can make the pumpkin flesh look like human flesh and in the instances of the ones that he's holding, it looks like it's a real, living being. I want to be able to replicate this kind of sweet, living look from a completely static work of art. I find it lovely.