Jeff Kim

Jeff Kim

Deer

2020

Tree Branches, Metal Screws

95” X 114” X 35”

As a child I grew up in different cities in the U.S. like New York City, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Because of this I never saw wild animals in their natural environments. Now that I live in an area where animals roam around my backyard, I get to enjoy nature and be a part of the habitat. A family of deer visits my backyard every morning to forage on my bushes. The bushes are bare by the end of winter but it’s worth it to watch my forest friends thrive. I also get visited by foxes, raccoons, possums, skunks, rabbits and squirrels. This piece is inspired by my backyard habitat to show that we can live in harmony.

Colin Shakespeare

Colin Shakespeare

Wastelanders Shop

2020

6x4x6

Steel, Tires, Repurposed scrap

The Wastelanders Shop is an exploration piece with repurposed materials. In order to keep to the specific theme of a broken down rag tad sort of shop the materials selected were already run down items themselves. Torn upholstery, rusty wheels all help create the environment where this lives. Although the initial intent of this piece was to create a functioning vehicle, it later because about creating a cohesive environment. I image many different types of torn apart and half put together wasteland vehicles, tools, work stations, and other decorations taking up an entire room space that allows you to walk into and through a continuous wasteland workshop.

Catherine McKnight

Catherine McKnight

Silence

2020

7' x 6' x 12'

Aluminum and Steel

Silence is a representation of people's voices being taken away by other people, more specifically relating to victims. It is for anyone who has felt trapped and couldn't speak out. Silence could mean a lot of different things to people and I didn't want to confine them to what it meant to me. So even though I went into this project with this meaning I decided when creating this that I wanted it to be very simplistic with how the room looked, I wanted a very clean white room so when people walked in there was nothing there to distract them. I wanted them to feel their own emotions when walking into this room and I wanted the simplicity of the room to amplify their emotions so they could have their own experience, therefore making the space unique to anyone who walked in.

Nate Robison

Nate Robison
Madlib Tombstone
2020
27 x 15 x 1 1/2 inches
Sandblasted granite slab, acrylic paint, sticky notes and sharpie


For my first sculpture project this year, I wanted to make what is best described as a madlib tombstone. The concept started when I got a scrapped slab of polished granite from Troy Granite. I wanted to make a tombstone full of blanks, so that those blanks could be filled with any details by any person, to eulogize themselves. In my own experiences with the mourning and funerary process, I think people have a tendency to be unrealistically positive, and as a result they sterilize the memory and identity of their loved one. Trite sayings like, "They brought joy to all who were lucky enough to meet them" inadvertently strips dignity from the person being memorialized. This piece is, in a way, a manifestation of my own fears of how I will be remembered. I do not want to be a scrubbed, sanitized obituary. I want myself, and my loved ones, to be remembered for flaws, for things that no one else has. To me, love is paying attention and understanding, not idolizing.

I chose bright colors to give a feeling of childishness, and a bit of ironic joy. I also wanted it to feel like a person injecting humanity into an otherwise sterile ordeal. I wanted to evoke the bright, sun-bleached stone of Salvation Mountain in California.

Jeffrey Churchman

Jeffrey Churchman

release

2020

Steel, Aluminum, String

6' x 4' x 3'

The act of removing one from another. 

The polished aluminum and rusted steel do not represent good and bad.

They represent a difference.

Together they could not exist, they had to break through.

They do not stray far, they stay close enough to love and far enough away not to hurt.

Mathea Madsen

Mathea Madsen
Homefront
2020
steel, charcoal
24" x 30" x 24"


With the future comes uncertainty. "Homefront" explores the hope and fear that comes with a future that is directly tied to an active duty military member. The house itself is modeled after a dream farmhouse that I one day hope to occupy and fix up, it represents an idyllic future I wish to share with my boyfriend. Although all plans are subject to change, this piece is about building a beautiful future that can only be attained by working through a period of anxiety and violence, as the very nature of his job is war. This dream is fragile, and fear and worries threaten to destroy it, while also being an unavoidable obstacle in the journey to achieve the dream itself. "Homefront" is a home, made of unforgiving and cold steel, this house is the shadow of the dream. It is the shell of a dream that could be lost, but also the foundation of what will be. The burnt charcoal words are a stream of consciousness, pouring out every worry and fear onto its walls, facing outward, raw and vulnerable. Nomenclature, words of love, and repetition are the direct embodiments of every anxiety. "Homefront" is an expression of fear, but a fear that is worth the dream itself. Sometimes the things that scare us the most lead us to something beautiful.

Sebastian Velasquez

John Sebastian Velasquez
"Disconnected"
2020
Steel
12' x 5' x 4'

Humans remain one of the most social creatures on the planet; constantly in a state creating, maintaining, and destroying relationships through millions of interactions combined over a lifetime. These interactions build and cluster, entangling themselves to create a mass of emotional connections and relationships.  While some connections become unhinged and lost, the strongest of these relationships retain the integrity of the matrix. 

Esther Lee

Esther Lee

Society

2020

steel, foam boards, cardboard, dirt, hay, moss, paint
6.5' x 4.5' x 6'

For this sculpture, I wanted to play off my sculpture from last semester, The Bridge in Between. Both projects were inspired from my trek in the Himalayan mountains. There was one village that my team stayed in, and all the houses would be built on the mountain side facing one direction. So, going off that my idea was to create a society of different class people with the size and shape and material of the buildings. I wanted these building to be suspended in the air with very skinny metal rods, so that they would sway from even the slightest wind. A fragile yet sturdy society. No matter what class you are, you all have the same view.

TUESDAYS

TUESDAYS 

wood, paint, tile, marker, chain

3 feet x 4 feet 

Michaela O'Connor

Michaela O'Connor

I Never Meant to Hurt Anyone
2020

steel, towels, chair, syringes, water pump, tubing

6' x 6'5" x 2'5"

Writing as been a part of my sculptural work since last semester. This project was, for me, a step toward imagining an environment for my word-covered sculptures to live in. I am interested in how surroundings impact the tone of the steel strips and the writing on their skin. A copious amount of everyday objects were used to emphasis the loneliness of the singular chair. This piece represents a part of my life that had gotten out of hand. I felt possessed to bring this piece into the physical world, because it is symbolic of me reflecting on the past and beginning to change my habits. What set "I Never Meant to Hurt Anyone" apart from my previous sculptures is its performative aspect. A water pump and 6 ft of tubing were used as the 'cause' and the erasure of marker from the spray-painted steel was the 'effect'. As the pump was initiated, the each washable marker letters melted away and left only a faded reminder of themselves. Unscathed by the force of water, a remaining message read, "I never meant to hurt anyone."

John Halligan

John Halligan

Who Cares if it Kills

2020

Oak, Cherry, Aluminum

9' x 4' x 2'5"

 A question that's arisen in my mind is, whats worth suffering for? Stemming from lung issues i'm having from excessive carving, I thought about why humans can be so self destructive for what they yearn. Not that i'm being ignorant of my own health, but I won't ever stop because it's my passion. Just like how many addicts know what they do is harmful. Or how people will suffer immense mental abuse in platonic and romantic relations, over and over again. We're all self aware, we just want what the heart want's. Human desire, the only thing all humans are guilty of. 

Doff Pantaloon

Doff Pantaloon

Useless Sound Machine 001

2020

wood, abandoned paintings, electric guitar parts, computer parts, amp, battery

48" x 24" x 8"

An exploration into layering and the combination of discarded items. The creation of new and unique things from mundane objects. Creating a situation of wonderment and curiosity. Elements of chance. Drawing influence from Tinguely, Rauschenberg and Takis.

Jeff Kim

Jeff Kim
Shit Artists Leave Behind

2020

Bronze, Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Steel, Tin, Peat Moss

46" X 57" X 28"

The work reflects the leftover items from young artists which were discarded as waste. Some items I found, and some were given to me by artists that have moved on from the university. It reflects items from about a dozen artists including myself. The piece is kind of a time capsule for me to remember the artists that I interacted with while at the university. It's also representative of all the different reasons artists create art. While artists have different reasons for creating art, for most audiences they view our creations as entertainment. For that reason, I decided to make it resemble a television.