Breadth #9

Breadth lock and chain made from clay.

Artist Statement

My concentration pieces focus on bring flowers to life by using fabric, wire, sheet metal and other materials. I'm trying to bring a quirky sense into each flower by using materials that aren't normally fitting for that type of flower.

Concentration #6

These roses for my 6th concentration piece are made from wire, towel-like material, mesh, and other fabrics

Concentration #5

For my 5th concentration piece I made a flower with lace, wire, spray paint, and fabric

Book and Figure Piece. Breadth #8

For my piece involving a book and a figure, I made the book into a swimming pool and a figure in the water after jumping off the diving board.

Concentration #4

My fourth concentration piece is a big sunflower made of just fabric and thread

Concentration #3

My 3rd concentration piece is a flower made from wire, newspaper, thread and fabric

Concentration #2

A bouquet of flowers, made using wire, buttons and 3 different kinds of fabric.

Frame- Breadth #7

Critique?

What do you guys think about a concentration focused on flowers, and how important to do think size is?

Hide & Seek Breadth #6

this piece focused on texture and different colors and the combination of how their put together.

Breadth #5

for my first summer piece i focused mostly on cut, straight lines and separation of colors.

Concentration #1

For my concentration I decided to focus on FLOWERS

Artist Inspired Piece- Breadth #4

My piece was inspired by Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny's bee hive piece.

Possible Concentration Piece. Breadth #3

For my possible concentration piece i went with a stitched and stuffed dress form, going more into the design of it's accessories.

Mini Landscape. Breadth #2

For my mini landscape piece, i decided to go a different route, still 3D (naturally) but this time i made a purple plaid tree with little chillis hanging from it.

"After" Piece. Breadth #1

For my "after" piece, i made a wired loom, with the word "apres" tangled in it, which is the french word for after.

Artist Response

The artist that I chose to look at was Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny. I was drawn to his work because he was so unique with his choice of material, shape, and overall composition. Libertiny was born in Slovakia, his father was an engineer, which was a career that Tomas planned on following. He started going to college for engineering, but dropped out shortly after and applied to the Design Academy in Eindhoven to pursue art. Tomas is a dutch artist, he now, after a long struggle through the Design Academy, has graduated. He graduated in 2007, and the piece that made it happen was the one that I am getting my inspiration from, "Made By Bees." This piece is a vase, that was made by thousands and thousands of bees. Well the honey comb was, Tomas did the rest.
I think that Tomas is trying to creature natures works combined with man made things to make beautiful artwork. Some say that he likes to make his artwork totally opposite of a multi-purposed object. Meaning that he likes each thing in life to have their own things accompanying them, like how a certain table could be used for writing on, but not sewing on, things like that. Tomas is exploring the idea of mixing together different creations, making his mold, and then letting nature do the rest, which is pretty awesome. Something that seems to be a huge things for Tomas is repetition. In his other pieces that he has made he seems to really focus on making a ton of his artwork, as in duplicated. The pattern of a honeycomb is right up his ally. To be totally honest not many artists are very engaged with Tomas, he is an up and coming artist, and as of right now he has five interns to his name, along with his studio in Rotterdam.




Sites:

http://tinatarnoff.typepad.com/.a/6a00e55378e88988340120a5d4f53c970b-800wi
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEZPXBVOHDKfS3C7VQ5DvDGJT1yH_ZwJ0zhRxrPo-5L8N3m9u_memMSivOSao7i5CmaeRR_GPEFv7wH0fFypkHN0qNbWIYvXeXGOxq6MaBLpNmxdx3SVeeZkD912efCuklulCs1d6AZA/s400/tomas_gabzdil_libertiny_made_by_bees_honeycomb_vase_2_preview.jpg
http://www.herbertquain.com/wp-content/pics/cinderella%20table.jpg

http://matandme.net/tomas-gabzdil-libertiny-fast-and-the-furious/
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/04/24/vase-made-by-bees-by-studio-libertiny/
http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/tomas-gabzdil-libertiny/