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Project 3 Research

Ann Hamilton:

• Ann Hamilton is a well-known artist and faculty member at The Ohio State University who studied textile design and sculpture.
• She works in the mediums of installations, photographs, videos, performances, sculpture, verbal and written language, and textiles. She states in all her art when making a decision, she is “interested in the relationships between things in space. And more important than the things themselves is the way they come into relation.”
• I looked at her body of work titled Body Series for research for this project. In this series, she states her work is “the practice of taking inanimate objects from installations and, in joining them to the body, changing their function and psychological relation.”

Body Objects Series:

Tooth Pick Suit-1984

I think this series works well in showing how inanimate objects can become extensions of our own bodies. It explores the relationship between objects to the human form.

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Phillip Toledano:

• Phillip Toledano is a conceptual artist whose main medium is photography.
• In his series Hope and Fear, he creates open-ended artwork that uses real sculpturally made artwork integrated into the human body. In this series, he leaves the interpretation open-ended, but it focuses on Societal problems in America.
• While I am not very interested in the subject of his artwork, I thought it was an interesting artist to include because of the way hw takes objects and creates extensions of the human body and photographs them. His technique in integrating artwork into and out of the human form is inspiring.

Hope and Fear

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Dalia Khalife: 

(Dah-lee-ah Kaw-lif)

• Dalia is a Lebanese artist who works among all types of mediums, but mainly through installations.
• In her art, she “examines psychophysiological happenings within power structures, social events, and rituals, that manifest as primitive moments of ambiguity and shared vulnerability.”
• I included her because I was interested in her artwork below titled “Body Augm”. In this artwork she created a 3D form that is extending and apart of the human body. I couldnt find any information on what the concept of the project was about but I thought it was an interesting way to extend/morph the human body. Her process designs were also helpful when researching this project.

Body Augm

Ariel Lavery

I included this student artist as an example I found of the body extensions project, I thought it was interesting how he created a functional piece of artwork that was engineered with his body to move and change. I am interested in doing something similar.

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Concept Sketches

Below is a development of my changing concept designs as I worked through this project.

Concept Design #1

Concept Design #2

Concept Designs #3

Concept Design #4 (Final Design) and Organic Shape Research.

Andrew Kudless and Matsys Design Studio

• Andrew Kudless is a designer and artist who studies the relationship between biology, architecture, engineering, and computation in his artwork.
• He founded Matsys Design studio which is a studio that explores computation through code and the philosophy of design that unites the biologic, geologic, and synthetic domains. They create some sculptural artwork off these concepts.
• In his artwork “P_Wall” he explores the concept of the self-organization of organic objects under force. In this particular piece, he wanted to replicate how human skin folds and shapes.

• “P_Walls” 2009 (Plaster/fabric/wood)

Chrysalys III, 2012

I thought it was interesting to see how he used the relationship between organic forms and trying to box them into geometric shapes. It was interesting to see how his work combined together and he used computation (a geometric and fixed platform) and mixed it biology and organic shapes to inform his work.

https://www.matsys.design/p_wall-2009

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Henrique Oliveira

• Henrique is a Brazilian painter and sculptural artist. He is well known for his large scale wooden sculptural installation artwork where he uses the mediums of plywood, fencing, and PVC piping.
• He is interested in the idea of taking plywood, fencing, and other wooden manufactured materials and taking it from its urban setting back into a natural organic form the wood originally came from.  He states “I wanted to create a situation that you don’t know exactly what’s nature and what’s artificial.” The work also deals with this idea of controlling life and the impossibility of controlling life.”
• He often uses natural organic shapes in contrast to architectural and geometric forms. A lot of his sculptural work shows intertwined wooden branch-like arms protruding out walls and boxes.

I enjoy how he creates combined organic forms that interact not only with each other but with solid architectural forms. The relationship between being contained and free is something I notice a lot in his work.

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Luc Ledene

• Luc Ledene is a Belgium sculpture who explores the concepts of capturing emotions, feelings, and humanity through organic and geometric shapes using the mediums of wood and stone and steel
• He uses curves and protrusions and tensions in his sculptural forms to represent different types of emotions he’s feeling. He almost solely creates his artwork based on his emotions and the tension his emotions create. He states ” Every action I take creates a new form, a new tension in the material. I keep on making it better regarding my feelings until the tension answers these feelings. At that moment the finishing works follow. ” (Sometimes if he doesn’t feel a piece of work is done he will put it aside and come back to it years later when he feels a spark of emotion again.)
• He never gives titles to his artworks because he wants the viewer to create their own meaning and feelings towards the piece. He states he does not want to “restrict or mislead their feelings”.

I thought it was interesting how he used emotions to inform his creation of the artworks. I also enjoyed how he used a clash of organic and geometric forms throughout his sculpture and it was interesting to observe how they combined.

https://www.artdependence.com/articles/sculptor-luc-ledene-on-capturing-emotion-in-three-dimensions/

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Concept Sketches:

I am very interested in working with the concept of mental health and emotions for this project.