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My "Geometric Cube" Sculpture was on Display at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts until April 29, 2012

My sculpture was on display in the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts.  I took second place in the 3D art category at my college and won the right to have it put on display in the museum for 10 days.

The view of the front door with all the college's art winners. (The girl who won 1st place in 3D created a handmade ceramic cookie jar; in the shape of a horse, on the left below.)

Here are better views of my sculpture.  When I designed the piece I meant for it to be seen on all sides; including the inside.  I chose to put the cube on it's end so that viewing all the sides and insides of each panel would be easily accomplished by the viewer.  The cube itself is 12"x12", on end it is probably an extra 2.5" tall.  It is made out of various types of wood (balsa being the delicate details),three different colors of wood stain, and is held together by Super Glue.

 

My 2D works did not win any awards, but they did get selected to show in the Fine Arts Gallery - "Student Works" show at the college.  

                                      "Collage" is pencil on 18"x24" paper

                                      "Inara in the Womb (Ultrasound Enlarged)" is 18"x24" cut-paper art.

A view of the exhibit at the college's Fine Arts Gallery.

Art Lecture by Jim Robertson

               The Art Lecture by Jim Robertson took place at Lone Star College - North Harris in the Academic building in room A126.  His art is also currently on display in the Fine Arts building - Fine Art Gallery and is also for sale.  He is a retired professor from Lone Star College and worked for over thirty-five years teaching painting.  He still draws and paints and says he loves perspective.  His love of drawing is evident in his speech about how he carries a sketchbook wherever he goes; drawing and journaling all the time.   He got into large scale steel sculptures and art cars after taking a welding class.  He has had one of these sculptures on display at the Menil Art Museum for a temporary exhibit and rented another one out to the Midland Convention Center for four years. 

                His process with the large steel sculptures starts with finding old farm equipment.  The he has the rust sandblasted off and assembles the pieces by laying them out on the floor.  Then he uses soap stone to mark on the steel to make cuts; because he can see it when he is welding.  After that he stacks the pieces up on blacks to see if everything lines up before he welds them permanently together.  The final process involves polishing the steel to a shine and spraying the sculpture with clear sealer to prevent rust.  It can take him three to four months to build these sculptures that he feels are inspired by Medieval art.

                I think some of the pieces are more Gothic in design with all the exterior details.  The railroad spikes on his sculptures Xylotobot, Xylotobot Rex, and the Cactus Crawler even resemble the flamboyants on the Gothic church spires.  You can see a bit of science fiction influence in his sculptures too; which helps make his designs inspiring, with the old farm equipment becoming the modern sculptures.  It shows that anything can be made new again.

His drawings / journal pages showed a lot of his personal side, which showed a different side of his art.  I think his best work as an artist is definitely the large steel sculptures from the found objects!  This art exhibit has been my favorite exhibit so far!  The artist, Jim Robertson's, happiness and excitement in sharing his art with the school and students made the event even more fun!

Xylotobot (price $6,000)

Alternate view of Xylotobot (has green water-ripple-texture stained glass windows)

Chopper (price $8,000) - you can also see some of his journal drawings on the walls

Xylotobot Rex - it runs on a go-cart motor & has been in the Houston Art Car Parade (price $15,000)

Outlaw Chariot (price $9,000)

Tractor Trike (price $1,800) and Cactus Crawler (price $2,100)

Seven Up (price $900)

Alternate view of items (some of his journals are in the glass case, I chose to only feature his sculptures)

Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs at MFAH

                "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" runs from October 16, 2011 to April 15,2012 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  The exhibit is located on the second floor of the Caroline Wiess Law building; before visitors are allowed to enter the exhibit, they are held in a darkly-lit Introductory theater with two wooden doors below three television screens that give an introduction to what visitors will see in the exhibit.  After the short film visitors are let into the exhibit by automatically opening doors where visitors enter the first of six sections of the exhibit.  The sections are divided into: the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh's Family and Private Life, the Pharaoh's Court, the Pharaoh's Religion, the Pharaoh's Gold, and the Discovery of a Pharaoh.  The final section is divided into subsections of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Visitors enter the Discovery of a Pharaoh section by walking through a white tent with crate boxes and woven baskets on either side to give the feeling of entering the architect Howard Carter's and financier Lord Carnaron's discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb on November 26, 1922. They entered the tomb through two sealed doors and the visitor to this section must also walk through two rooms before entering the subsections of the Discovery of a Pharaoh section.  These subsections are presented to the visitor by walking through stone entrances labeled the Antechamber, the Annex of King Tut, the Treasury of Tutankhamun, and the Burial Chamber; all rooms of Tutankhamun's tomb.  After Tutankhamun's tomb there are another two subsections visitors see by walking through short hallways to the Pharaoh's Fate and the display of the Ancient Mysteries &Modern Science with a replica of Tutankhamun's mummy.

                "Canopic Coffinette", located in the Treasury section, was in the back part of the center of the room showing it's importance in the Egyptian culture's death ritual.  It is one of four mini-coffins that held the internal organs of Tutankhamun.  This particular coffinette held his stomach.  The coffinette is inscribed with the names of Duamutef (one of the four sons of Horus) and the Goddess Neith (who also appeared on the underside of the lid) on the front of the coffinette to protect the contents and is inscribed on the inside with a spell from "The Book of the Dead".  The front of the coffinette shows Tutankhamun wearing the Nemes headdress with a vulture (the goddess Neknbet symbolizing Upper Egypt) and a cobra (the goddess Uatchet symbolizing Lower Egypt) on the front, a  false beard, and a collar. The front and back upper portions of the coffinette are in a pattern of wings crossing each other with the front winged pattern shown in the arms holding the crook (symbolizing government) and flail (symbol of royal power).  Just under and around the winged parts are tiny round feather patterns in the first banded area on the coffinette.  On either side of the coffinette (on the upper part) there are vultures holding Shen rings (representing eternity) in their claws.   The remaining four banded areas are in the shape of bird feathers.  It is made of gold and entirely inlaid with semi-precious stones and glass on the outside.

                The event was very well organized into sections that gave the viewer a look into ancient Egyptian culture.  The exhibit had plaques throughout describing what the items were, but some had very little explanation for the viewer that did not purchase the audio tour.  It is a shame that more information couldn't have been put on display for those people who were unable or unwilling to spend the money on the audio tour.  The security teams throughout the exhibit were excessive and some would circle visitors looking at the items making them uncomfortable and making them feel forced to move along.  They were especially hard on the parents of very young children following them closely and telling them to make sure the children didn't touch the glass.  Parents should not need to feel stalked or unwelcome.  This gives the impression that the museum doesn't really  welcome young children.  The event was well organized and beautifully laid out; with some minor informative and security sensitivity improvements, it would be perfect.

                "Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs" is divided into six sections with the Tutankhamun sections comprising about half of the exhibit with its six subsections.  Tutankhamun's coffinette with its intricate inlaid details showed the beauty and mastery of the Egyptian artist's work and showed the importance of the coffinette in the burial rituals of the ancient Egyptian culture.  With only a few minor glitches, the exhibit can be considered a huge success for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Video: (unfortunately a lot of items in this video were not at the MFAH; but it's a nice look at items from the entire exhibit, if you can't go to one of the museum tour dates)

              http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMj7WIGnzYc

Official Website:

              http://www.kingtut.org/

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH):

              http://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/tutankhamun-golden-king-and-great-pharaohs/

16 Page Signature Booklet Layout: Child's Book

The 16 page booklet was created using only 2 Pantone colors and is printed front and back on one sheet and then folded to make the booklet.  Then the booklet is trimmed with a cutting board (leaving the spine intact) which creates the loose pages which are now cut to the same size. To keep the booklet together two staples are placed in the center fold.



Diecut Postcard Design

The inside of the postcard and the outside of postcard, with folds in the middle and a flap folding over on the top to seal it with extra adhesive on the inside sides to safely get through the mail.  The diecut reveals the Car Show information on the inside without the customer having to open it up and if the customer wants more detail, then they open the postcard to read all of it.