I showed Oliver's work today in class as an example of how one can use ordinary materials in an extraordinary way. Using collaged photography, pink foam from home depot and the reference of a live model he is able to create sensitive, intricate, delicate and striking pieces of sculpture.
Above Image - Sculpture by Oliver Herring
Above Image - Sculpture by Oliver HerringThe following is a blurb from wikipedia:
For the Styrofoam Photo sculpture, Herring starts with a polystyrene base and pastes thousands of cut up photographs to the base. “Gloria,” one of his most famous sculptures, is of a girl leaning against a wall in a colorful flower dress holding her necklace. Herring took pictures from every angle of her and he cut and pastes them on the base to form the sculpture.
Marlene Dumas
I presented the works of Marlene Dumas in class because she creates passionate watercolors, drawings and oil paintings that typically start from photographic source material. Beyond the fact that she is incredibly prolific I like to use her as an example of how any starting point can be transcended. She is not "copying" a photo but using it as a catylist to start making her marks.
Above image - Marlene Dumas
Above image - Marlene DumasGhada Amer
One final artist I showed yesterday in regards to technique was Ghada Amer. She uses loose washes of color and thread to create sensual and layered large format paintings. From a distance you see only tangles of color and line but as you walk closer and inspect the piece you realize it is composed of hundreds of overlapping sewn drawings and dangling threads. A technique one might use to achieve a similar result could be working out a drawing in Illustrator using live trace and printing out the result as a template to sew from. The printout and a section of fabric could be placed one on top of the other and the needle could weave it's way through the drawing and fabric until the desired image is traced with thread upon the surface of the fabric.
Above Image - Ghada Amer
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