Very few of the instructors at Southern Maine Community College are full-time faculty. For better or worse, it's an institution that relies on community members who are able to teach an occasional class or two.
3D Design & Sculpture Studio, Spring and Fall 2014.
Justin Desper's figurative sketches rely on a smart and frankly delightful palette: powder blue paper, dixie straws, hot glue and scrap wood.
Using free software, Josh Cundiff 3-d scanned and performed a cross-sectional analysis of this tiny piece of coral. Meticulously printing, cutting, and assembling those cross sections, he re-contextualized it's dynamic form as a waffle grid.
Alicia Wright's miniatures were undertaken as a textural, material, and trans-dimensional exploration of childhood memories.
For this exercise, "Drawing in Space", Ariel Rodman channeled the eerily fibrous material palette of her favorite sculptor, Petah Coyne.
As if her gestural sketches in curled paper weren't inspired enough...
... Caitlin Moran tested them at larger scales.
Nick Putnam wound this discareded strip of vinyl window blind into a moebius strip, and trickled rivulets of ink down it's varied inclines.
Josh Cundiff's FInal Piece was a material study of luminescence, using jars of anti-freeze and weed-wacker cord under blacklight.
Rich Harkin's Calder-inspired wire drawings invoke Calder-esque tensions between line and form.
