Erin Erskine

Geode

2018

6'x3'x3'

Foam, Mirrors, Cement

Like a geode, the beauty isn’t fully found until the center is revealed. As the viewer is looking within the center of the mirrors, they find them-selves broken up into fragments and become one with the nature around them. The viewer becomes part of the beauty of the piece and the beauty of nature. 

Alicia Ferrara

Metallic Fungus

2018

Cast aluminum and ceramics

  

The installation Metallic Fungus plays on the idea of new forms of life gaining consciousness. The aluminum fungus grows out of a living tree blurring the line between what is living and dead and what materials we would commonly associate with being alive. The work displays the beginnings of an aluminum based life slowly creeping undetected out of familiar carbon based tree. It remains unclear if there is a mutualistic or parasitic relationship between the two.

Christopher Giuliano

Christopher Giuliano

"Trapped"

Foam and Cement 

6'x6'x6'

For this piece I decided to continue my environmentally themed work but at the same time take more of an outdoorsman approach, as I have created several detailed freshwater game-fish.  My process began with carving the bodies of the fish from foam, then adding a few layers of cement, and finally, a detailed and realistic paint job.  The placement of the work is very essential to the meaning of being trapped.  Pollution is a serious global issue in modern times, and species such as these are suffering the consequences.  Very often we see animals tangled in fishing lines and other harmful, non-decomposable plastics.  The twisting tree that these fish are placed in acts as a representation of some type of pollutant they could possibly be caught in in their natural environment.  The bright and vibrant colors of each fish act as a contrast to the dull and dreary colors of the tree that captures them. 

Andrew Gayda

Infatuation

2018

wood, steel, acrylic paint

9' x 5.5' x 5.5'

Jeff Kim

 Angles of Aokigahara

 Hydrocal (white gypsum cement), Steel and Aluminum

6' x 5'9"

Dedicated to those who dwell in Aokigahara forest as they went there to find peace that they could not find in life. The locals who live in Yamanashi near Aokigahara call it Jukai which translate to Sea of Trees. The Aokigahara forest is about 13.5 square miles with old growth, over 300 years old and is green all year round. It is called Jukai because the forest seen from above looks like a rolling sea. We in the western society know it by a different name which I will not mention out of respect.