Gallery Opening (1/22/13)

This art show was very interesting, I realized that these installations consumed space and these installations  showed signs of using space in a clever and harmonious way.

I love this piece because of the different elements and ideas it brings into this art show. The skin is being ripped off the body and all there is muscle being revealed.  

I love the amount of space this artist used within the area he/she was working with. The gray smoke goes up to the air vents and I think it is a great use of space and it really grabs the viewers attention to this piece.  

Front view of the piece.  

I like this gigantic forms of skulls.  This installation reminds me of the Human Evolution. This artist also used a good amount of space in the area he/she was working in.  

It took me a while of what forms this chest had and as I got closer to check, they were bones and I thought that was very interesting and the design that was carefully planned was perfectly executed because I was drawn to the radial pattern of the top of the chest.  

I did not know what I was looking at all when I first entered the room; however, I was intrigued by the enormous space that this work took up in the art gallery.  It even connected from the outside of the building.  

From this view, you can see this art work connecting from the outside and this works extends further out of the area the artist worked in.  

5 Objects

Before being assigned our first project, we had to learn the importance of how air affects the hardening of the clay and the importance of water that affects how much moisture the clay takes up.  For this project students are to make ten or more hollow enclosed objects and explore the different shapes, sizes, textures, and forms.  This project also tests our hand building skills to create a harmonious composition will all ten (or more) enclosed forms.  All students need to make two or three assemblages using ALL of their forms.  The picture below shows my first five enclosed forms being made to be assembled.    

I took this picture after finishing molding my shapes. 

This is an aerial view of the five forms.  Each enclosed object has its own shape and size.  

I used a triangular shape base and as I was making this one, the sides started to fuse together which led me to curve the corners to make a spinning wheel shape.  I used a pick tool which had a circular bottom and made an indent on it.  

I made a tear-shaped base for this object. This is the front view of this object. You can see that one side was smoothed out and the other side was "texturized" with a a clay tool that gave it a checkered like texture.  

This is the side view.

This has an oval shaped base.  My point of view on this piece is that it looks like a small watermelon. I used the rigid rib to make the line texture on this one. I had textures going in straight lines, others coming from bottom to top, and some going all around.  

This is a bird's eye view of the watermelon shaped object.

When I was making this object out of clay, it reminded me of a valacaraptor's claw because of its unusual shape.
I like this object the most because it is different at all angles. It's like a scalene  triangle because it has no equal sides.  

Front view of the claw shaped object.

Side view

Back view

This was the first object made for this object.   Everyone had to make two bowl like shapes and mold them together to make a sphere.

Each clay object were made in different shapes, size, and time.  I had fun making each and every one of them because of the different methods that were used to make them.  Although each one took a bit time to make them, it was fun to see how the final results would turn out to be.  There were some shapes that I did not expect to make such as the "pin wheel" shape because I originally wanted to make a pyramid but the corners started to merge and I decide to curve them and it turned out to be an unique shape.  

I started to add different textures to old forms and make new ones at the same time.  

I took these three forms and combined them to make an assemblage, but I need to add more forms on it to make it a more balanced assemblage.  

I then made an "S" shaped form and added it onto the assemblage #1. I personally think this assemblage is forming nicely. It is growing taller and taller gradually and I believe that two more enclosed forms can complete assemblage #1.

This piece contains slip paint and the colors I chose were pea green and white.  

This object contains different colors of green (2) and white. It has a chaotic look to it in the middle part as well as the very top part.  

This one contains a white and lavender color the circles around the shape. 

I gave this part of the object a light brush of the slip paint and it showed some of the textures that was on it, which is what I was going for so it turned out good.  

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Hi! My name is Sun-Mo Koo
I am from Burbank, CA and I am planning to be an Art major with an Econ minor at Allegheny College.  My future goal in life is to go to Carnegie Mellon for grad school and possibly get an internship at Dreamworks :).  I chose to be in Professor Geffen's Ceramics 1 class this semester because I enjoyed the previous class I had with her. I also want to learn and improve my art-making process.  I enjoy making and molding things out of clay.  Clay has been a passion of mine since I was in middle school. I LOVED working with polymer clay because of the different colors they came in. I was fascinated with the idea of molding something to your desire and hardening it in the oven and it will stay that shape forever.

Both works on the left (Man-made Sanctuary (Green)) and right (Building Parameters XVI) are works from Aaron Tennessee Benson.  He is a new artist who was acknowledged in 2011. From both works, I was intrigued by the way it was structured.  And the shapes Benson used is very geometric and involves a lot of negative space.  Although the project we are working on only involves enclosed forms, these works are relatable by assembling different shapes and forms together to create a balanced structure.