Material Transfomation due 1/29

In class you will be given a large piece of printed paper or plastic. The material has certain properties: it is flat, brittle, translucent or opaque, 2-d, consumer-oriented, thin, and slick. You can probably think of other properties this material has. Make a non objective sculpture using all of the material. Bend it, fold it, cut it, tear it, curl it, shred it, weave it; manipulate the material so that your sculpture has characteristics that the original material did not. Your sculpture might even be the opposite of the original material, this is the transformation. You may use tape, glue, string and wire. Your sculpture can be a floor piece or a hanging piece. Everyone is getting the same type of material, make your piece look different.

There is no class on Jan. 22, so you will have to work on this at home. You will be evaluated on the amount of time you spend on the project, thoughtfulness and creativity, and your transformation of the material.

Artists who transform materials:
http://www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=32 Bride Fight by E.V. Day














\http://www.artseensoho.com/Art/PACE/chamberlain98/chamberlain1.html The Privet by John Chamberlain 1997



















http://www.lissongallery.com/#/artists/richard-deacon/Richard Deacon





Ex Boyfriend's Clothing by Shinique Smith http://www.motihasson.com/artist/smith/images.html *Shinique Smith's work is currently on view at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami. http://www.rfc.museum/flash.html


http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/FEATURES/honigman/honigman9-28-04.asp Phoebe Washburn




Here is the video we watched of Robert Rauschenberg talking about making his Erased De Kooning Drawing.



Last year's projects:
http://newworldsculpture9.blogspot.com/2009/04/material-transformation-due-418.html