New Paintings

Causal Loop Diagram

A new piece I just finished, included in a drawing show here at Cranbrook. Mixed media on panels and a plaster cast from one of my thermo-formed plastic molds.

Cranbrook 2.0

Well, it's September and I am back at school! After a long summer in Lancaster, I am back in my studio making work. This is my 2nd and final year at Cranbrook and I'm trying to make the most of every minute. Here is some work in progress:

Reviews

Renderings

The profile of a simple vase is drawn, and extruded along itself. The resulting piece has a footprint which is the same is it's cross-section

Dinner for Ari & Jeannine

Since yesterday was Valentine's day, I decided to put together a special meal for some special friends. Here's what was left after the smoke cleared:

Maple poached tofu, tuna bacon.
The picture doesn't do this justice... it was actually quite good, I swear

Cream of white asparagus & shallot

Apple, manchego, honey

A variation of a Korean ssam bap; baby bok choy, rice, omelette, toasted nori, gochujang

Flatbread, tomato fennel puree, mozzarella, homegrown micro greens

Pan-seared tilapia, mango jalapeno slaw, Chalula mayonnaise

Lemon sorbet, blood orange reduction, fennel whipped cream, candied ginger

A Painting

Here's a new piece that I'm working on in the studio right now. I have been making these panels lately that read both as paintings as well as sculptural objects.

New work

I designed these vessels... or mass-els (thanks D Schafer) from a profile of a traditional Korean vase form. Each piece uses the same profile, but using a different shape as the footprint. Thirty-two 1/8" slices of MDF were cut on a laser plotter, then assembled and smoothed with wood filler. It was my original intention for these prototypes to be used for a plaster mold, and eventually cast in porcelain. However, I am more interested now in the forms in their solid, unfinished state.



These six paintings were shown in my last critique, along with the laser-cut vessels above. The idea of understanding and constructing form between two and three dimensions, as well as an interest in developing systems and templates for realizing form has been consistent in my painting, sculpture and design work.

New Drawing & Painting

I just posted 30 or so images of new-ish 2-D work here

The CAD/CAM, Adobe Illustrator, vector language aesthetic has been extremely influential in my understanding of how drawing and sculpture comes to be. The idea that all form can be quantified as a collection of infinitely scalable lines and points is changing the way I perceive form. This raises the question of whether or not the "hand" of the maker is still necessary to create meaningful work. Right now, I think of my hand as a tool that I can use to distort an idealized form through the shortcomings of my own precision.

Digital

The last few weeks I've been experimenting with the laser cutter, and generating form with 3d rendering software. Here's a few shots:




The information extrapolated by tracing the profile of a traditional vase form is used in creating both the footprint and the interior silhouette. I would love to see this piece as a 20-story building.

On Measuring and not Measuring

A few photos from an piece that I made for a show called 'Necessity: Mother of all Invention"
Materials include high-fired stoneware rods, raw clay vessels, thread, wood, foam, clamps, tape, drawing, plaster, acrylic, and rubber. I will post more images of the show soon. Perhaps a catalog will become available.

Breaking News from Michigan

It got really cold.