Saturday, March 7, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Horse Show Jumps
When I'm not attending school in Boston, I work for a horse breeding farm on Long Island. Last winter, my boss asked me to design a show jump to represent her farm in the Winter Equestrian Festival, a horse show in Florida that features top equestrian competitors. I came up with a few designs, and two were chosen: the jump shown directly below was made for Spy Coast Farm.
The other jump was made for Sweet Oak Farm, which works closely with Spy Coast. I didn't even know Sweet Oak used my design until I saw it in person in the ring.
The jumps will also appear in this year's Winter Equestrian Festival.
The work seen on this page
The sculptures on this page are from the fall 2008 semester. I made four major projects- two are shown here. The wire sculpture shown below was my midterm. Made over two months, with God knows how much wire, easily over 200 feet, I constructed a 3D model of a baseball glove.
The assignment for my final project was to make a life-sized sculpture out of cardboard and hot glue only. I decided to create a sculpture of Davy Jones, a villain in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, with a squid-tentacle beard, a peg leg, a lobster claw, and countless other weird things to ensure that my task would be as hard as possible. So, over a two month period, I created Davy Jones from the ground up, forming an underlying skeleton first, and then building up form on top of that.
Any of the other work is work I've done over the past four years. Examples of my artwork from my fall 2008 drawing class are coming soon; I'm having technical difficulties with my camera.
Close ups of Davy Jones along the way
Davy's hand with the tentacle finger wrapping around his walking sticl
The beginnings of a stressed ship deck
Close up of Davy's lobster claw arm
The Beginnings of Davy Jones
Davy's legs, day 1
Underlying skeleton for Davy's legs
Our boots matched for a while, we were the same boot size
Underlying skeleton, week 3
Side View of skeleton, week 3
Final Sculpture Project- Davy Jones Cardboard Sculpture 2008
Underlying skeleton of Davy Jones cardboard scupture
Shirt, acrylic paint, 18x22", 2006
Undone (The Sweater Song), watercolor and ink, 8x12", 2007
Rhapsody, mixed media, 18x24, 2007
Winner of the Award of Achievement in Mixes Media, Long Island's Best Show, 2007
Exhibited in Parrish Art Museum, 2007
Uncle Richie, colored pencil, 12x18", 2008
Exhibited in Parrish Art Museum, 2008
Grandma and Grandpa, pencil, 18x24", 2008
Award of Achievement, Congressional Art Competition, 2008
More Old Work from 2005-2007
Braid, brown white and black conte, 18x24", 2007
Left Hands, pencil, 12x16", 2005
Coyle Was Here, colored pencil, 10x15", 2007
Cecile, watercolor, 18x24", 2005
Old Work from 2005-2007
Self portrait: Reflection through two CDs, pencil, 8x8" 2005
Andrea Painting, portrait, oil paint, 18x24", 2007
Still Life: pointillism, pencil, 20x20", 2006
Still Life: contour, black marker, 20x24", 2006
Self Portrait: Hands and Photograph, mixed media, 18x22", 2007
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