For this first project you will need to think carefully about your response to the work you saw in the 8-Hour Drawings Project / Exhibit.  For the written component of this project you were asked to follow 2 - 3 artists closely. From those artists select one whose work you are most excited by or whose work seems to offer the most exciting possibilities for translation into sculptural form.

With this artist's work in mind, make a sculpture that responds visually and conceptually to this drawing. An important component of this assignment involves the translation of a 2D form into a 3D form. You must consider your solution from all angles, even though your starting point offers only one view.

Size and media are your choice.  Use skills you already possess. You can expand on these and should feel free to experiment as needed.

If you do a piece that involves a performance component, it should take no more than 10 minutes of class time.You may combine any additional content that seems important or personally relevant to you; something from a dream or a personal experience; something from another class; something from art you have already made; something that grows from your personal response to your artist's work.

Issues of composition / 3D form which will be discussed on 1/28. Some of these issues are covered in the xerox reading on 3D Form (read for 1/28). You are expected to show evidence of having learned this information.

Do not waste time trying to figure out what your professor wants here.  Your professor has never given this assignment before and does not know you, so your professor has no idea what you might do for this problem.  There are no preconceived ideas about what to expect. There is no hidden agenda of any sort.... The only requirement is that you make a sculpture, using skills you already possess, that responds visually and/or conceptually to one of the works you observed in the gallery on Saturday.

Be prepared to tell the class during critique how you arrived at the idea for this piece and then how the work progressed...where you had trouble, etc. Keep notes / sketches in your journal as you work on this project.

Critique / Due date: 2/2 start of class

Work time: At least 8 hours of outside work.

Grading criteria: creativity and response to artist's work; technique and craftsmanship; conceptual and physical investment of time; application of basic issues of composition and aesthetic and conceptual quality.