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Windmill

Posted in My Sculptures UTPA MFA, Sculpture, Texas, tagged , , , , , on December 19, 2011| 1 Comment »

In the last few days an assignment from Dr. Pace to go to the South Texas Museum of History in Edinburg and select an object to base a 3D sculpture on.  In front of the Museum is an old windmill of the type used so long in Texas.  So I drew it … I photographed it … I tried to see how it was constructed to resist the strong winds in the Texas landscape.  It was sturdy.

Mary P Williams "Windmill"

Mary P Williams "Windmill"

Here it is!  Made with dried palm fronds and the acorns from an oak tree … it was a struggle but worth the effort.

"Windmill" closeup

"Windmill" closeup

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Flea Market Sculpture

Posted in My Sculptures UTPA MFA, Sculpture, UTPA MFA, tagged , , on November 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Dr. Lorenzo Pace tells us to all “go to 2 or 3 flea markets, buy a few items, and make a sculpture out of them.”

Mary P Williams "Fragility vs. Hardness

Mary P Williams "Fragility vs. Hardness

So here is my piece, five feet tall, using three metal objects, and a blown egg, and tissue paper.  The title is “Fragility vs Hardness”.

Mary P Williams "Fragility vs. Hardness" egg detail

Mary P Williams "Fragility vs. Hardness" egg detail

Hopefully the egg, sandwiched between two metal plates,

Mary P Williams "Fragility vs. Hardness" bottom detail

Mary P Williams "Fragility vs. Hardness" bottom detail

and the tissue paper lying under another heavy metal plate, will convey the concept.  Fragile, ephemeral, momentary,transitory, gauzy, or temporary as opposed to hardness, solidness, lasting, enduring, or heaviness.  It had to be a freestanding sculpture (i.e. a person must be able to walk around it). Does it succeed?

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Meet Daniel Flores

Posted in Artist Interviews, Sculpture, UTPA MFA, tagged , , , , , on October 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Daniel Flores

Daniel Flores

Daniel Flores is working with the concept of line …

Daniel Flores "Blue String"

Daniel Flores "Blue String"

he has explored line in his studio with blue string, cleverly stretching it to form a shape across his studio, and with crayons …

Daniel Flores "Crayon Lines"

Daniel Flores "Crayon Lines"

he lined the crayons up on a piece of board, glued them on, and then used a heat gun to melt them, thereby producing lines of each color …”I try to produce straight lines”  he said. “It is not easy.”   We all know what a line is … don’t we??  A straight line might be “a mark which lies evenly with points of itself. ” Once we try to define it … it becomes complicated!

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3-D Class

Posted in My Sculptures UTPA MFA, Sculpture, UTPA MFA, tagged , , , , , on October 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Here is the assignment in 3-D class: Make a free-standing sculpture, as tall as you are, and out of indigenous materials. In this case indigenous includes anything found around the studios.

Mary P Williams "3-D Palms"

Mary P Williams "3-D Palms"

For my person I did a representation of my painting with colorful “painters hands” using a mop, styrofoam, and paint.

Jill Carpenter "3-D Quinceanera"

Jill Carpenter "3-D Quinceanera"

Jill did a Quinceanera, or “Sweet Sixteen” figure, with all the Mexican symbols, as it is done here in the Rio Grande Valley.

Manuel Lince "3-D Torso"

Manuel Lince "3-D Torso"

Manuel surprised us all with a cast of a friend done in ground up corn husks which he mixed with glue, layered on her body, and sand-papered to finish it.(Sand-papered the white cast – not her body!)

Erika "3-D Robot"

Erika "3-D Robot"

Finally, Erika came up with an endearing Robot … out of items discarded by her teenage son … it was made of shoe boxes, cereal boxes, and old toy boxes. Very fanciful !

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