Elise Winters on Oct 23 2009 | Filed under: Bishoff, Sculpting Color, Winters
Elise Winters, Red RUFFLE Ruche, 2009
polymer, acrylic
8 x 9 x 1″, promised gift, Newark Museum
My artist’s statement read:
“Concern for color and light has followed me through every phase of my artistic career.
Elise Winters on Oct 16 2009 | Filed under: Dustin, Fuller Craft Museum, Sculpting Color
Kathleen Dustin, Allium Pod, 2008
3’h x 3’w x 9”d
Polymer clay
Kathleen commented:
“To fulfill it’s educational mission, The Fuller Craft Museum likes to have pieces that people can touch included in their exhibitions, and I allowed them to use my table sculpture, “Allium Pod” for this purpose in the exhibition “Sculpting Color: Works in Polymer Clay”. The [...]
Elise Winters on Oct 09 2009 | Filed under: Diffendaffer, Gozonar, McCambly, Sculpting Color
Grant Diffendaffer, Cosmic Ray, 2009
Polymer clay, poplar, thread, rod, glue
3 x 12 x 6″
Grant wrote about his pieces saying:
These pieces are relics of my engagement with the era of Raygun Gothic design. Come with me as we go back to the future as it was imagined in the first part of the 20th century - [...]
Elise Winters on Oct 02 2009 | Filed under: Dustin, Ford, Forlano, Hughes, Sculpting Color, Zimmerman
Steven Ford & David Forlano, Char, 2002
Wood, polymer clay, magnets, steel, sterling silver,
21.5 x 13 x 5″
The Curator’s Statement for Sculpting Color currently at the Fuller Craft Museum reads:
“Unlike any other materials in fine craft, polymer clay has no ancient history, no millennium as a utilitarian art form, no past masters from which to draw [...]
Elise Winters on Sep 18 2009 | Filed under: Dever, Sculpting Color
Jeffery Lloyd Dever, Edensong Reverie, 2009
Polymer clay, wire, card stock
Jeff writes about his piece:
“Nature informs my aesthetics and helps me to form my visual vocabulary. My quest is not to replicate God’s finest gifts of flora and fauna, but merely to enter into the dialogue.
Elise Winters on Sep 04 2009 | Filed under: Fuller Craft Museum, Sculpting Color, Toops
Cynthia Toops, Helmet, 2009, detail
During the panel discussion at the opening of the Sculpting Color Exhibition, Kathleen Dustin raised the question of polymer as a “green” material. Cynthia Toops was not present that day, but her Helmet was, in a way, one more response to this current concern.
Cynthia writes about this piece saying:
Elise Winters on Aug 28 2009 | Filed under: 2009, Balombini, Fuller Craft Museum, Sculpting Color
Laura Balombini, Maybe Tomorrow: Pages from my Dreambook, 2009, detail
clay board with polymer relief, encaustics, oils, collage
This is one of nine pages from Laura’s imaginary sketchbook installation in the Sculpting Color exhibition, currently on view at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton MA.
Laura writes:
“I found my way into the world of polymer having started as [...]
Woody Rudin on Aug 21 2009 | Filed under: 2009, Bishoff, Dever, Diffendaffer, Dustin, Fuller Craft Museum, Sculpting Color, Winters
Cynthia Toops, Metamorphosis, 2009
1 3/4″ x 1/18″ x 92″
polymer, rubber cord
Cynthia Toops’ Metamorphosis, pictured above, could have been a good highbrow title for the standing-room-only panel discussion held last weekend in the Great Room at the Fuller Craft Museum, as part of its opening ceremonies for the Sculpting Color: Works in Polymer Clay exhibition.
Literary allusions [...]