Category: Sculpture & Dimensional
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Ed “Big Daddy” Roth
At some point in my impressionable youth, I was exposed to certain “corrupting influences” that twisted my little brain into a fevered pop culture pretzel and made me not only want draw comics and cartoons, but draw outrageous and weird comics and cartoons. One was my discovery of paperback reprints of E.C. Mad comics from…
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Theo Jansen
A number of sculpture related links have come up as a result of my post about Lawrence Northey last Thursday. Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures are particularly fascinating because they walk back and forth (literally) across the supposedly fixed line between art and engineering. These amazing artifacts are built of ultralight materials and constructed of levers…
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Tim Prentice
Another artist whose work crosses boundaries between disciplines, kinetic sculptor Tim Prentice was trained in architecture at Yale, founded a successful architectural firm, and went on to establish a studio to create kinetic sculpture. Prentice creates beautifully balanced and intricate mobile-like sculptures, flying out from the aerial paths first pioneered by Alexander Calder. His pieces,…
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Alexander Calder
We think of drawing, naturally enough, as lines or shapes on paper. Similarly, we think of sculpture as forms in space, particularly solid forms. Rarely do we think of drawing as three dimensional or sculpture as lines. When I was younger I was fascinated with drawing telephone wires and the transformers on the poles that…