Interesting Material

Title: Heart of Darkness
Date: 2004
Artist: Cornelia Parker
Material: charred timber resulting from a fierce forest fire that happened in Florida in 2004

By hanging the pieces of charred wood vertically, Parker is recreating their original state as strong, tall trees. However, because they are broken, split, and imperfect, we can see the destruction that had happened.

Interesting Process

Title: Floral Font (detail)
Date: 1989
Artist: Charles Simonds
Size: 12 feet in diameter
Material: Clay, wood, and plaster

Simonds creates ancient ruins for a legendary race of tiny people that he created in his own mind. He used to create these elaborate cities on the street corners in New York, but has since moved on to creating permanent installations for museums and other patrons. Each brick is made individually and placed with tweezers and mortared so they are fully functional. He then adds all the other details to his dwellings and the final touch is to sprinkle them with sand to make them appear deserted and abandoned.

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Trash Replication

Resistance Piece

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Resistance Piece


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Resistance Piece

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Trash Replication and Resistance Piece

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Jonathan Monk
Deflated Sculpture #1, 2009
Stainless steal and maple wood pedestal
76x59x41"

Monk took the idea of Jeff Koon's Rabbit and simply gave the rabbit a deflated balloon look. The gloss and slumping appearance of the stainless steel gives the impression of a shiny balloon, yet Monk has made the once upright bunny now deeply wrinkled while still appearing highly polished.

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Urs Fischer
AM & PM, 2001
wood, clay, polyurethane, resin, pigment, bread, glue and mold
11 1/4x 12 x 12 3/4"

Fischer gives the shape of a head by dripping his materials over the figure, as opposed to shaping them on.

Interesting Material

Equivalent VIII, Claire Fontaine, 2007, 120 Firebricks and folded Epson durabrite prints, firebricks 179 x 110 x 63 mm; overall: 1100 x 1074 x 126 mm

The interaction of the artwork and texts created by the layout of the reproduced covers of political literature is highlighted by the brick material they are folded around. This brick material "references the bricks thrown by the 1968 Paris protestors".

Material as content

Mona Hatoum's Paravent (2008) is a reproduction of cheese graters that have been positioned in the shape of a changing curtain. The industrial material and the fact that the work is full of holes with cutting edges evokes intrusion and invasiveness rather than modest concealment.

interesting process

Josh Smith, 2007. Encyclopaedia. Mixed media, 28 handmade books. 10x24x6".

Rather than using published books, Smith made the books used in the piece by hand by binding layers of paper together with string before setting them in a bookshelf and painting over the spines.

Interesting Process

Amateur Furniture


Artist: Jerszy Seymour
Date: 2009
Medium: Hand Moldable Wax, Everyday Materials

This piece reflects the process Jerszy initially underwent as he began to explore the industrial techniques demonstrated in many of his more recent works such as "Living Systems" (2007). Art Papers describes this initial process in which he fabricated all the basic objects he needed in the seclusion of an empty room. Using a "chromaticaly high-keyed plastic made from potatoes, acohol and milk in addition to sand and clays casts" Jerszy's process "revived industrial techniques and initiated an individual economy independent of both the substantial capital investment and the expected profits that bookend object production in the design economy".

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Sigmar Polke, 1976. Can you always believe your eyes?

Using lacquer, acrylic, zinc sulfate, and cadmium oxide, as well as tobacco, paper, and canvas, Polke's piece uses a collage-like layering of materials to show the shifting nature of reality and how the confluence of events create illusions.

Interesting Process

Artist: Jonathan Monk

Title: Picture Postcard Posted from Postbox Pictured

Date: 2005

Location: Edinburgh

Postcard Size: 6 x 4''

Jonathan Monk had a set of instructions for this project: A person must photograph a postbox and email the photograhs of the selected postbox to him. When Monk receives the photograph, he crops it and returns it to the sender through email. The producer then has the picture printed on a postcord with the text, "Picture Post Card Posted from Post Box Pictured, Jonathan Monk."

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Interesting Material

Monika Grzymala, "Distortions", 2008.

The artist used 7.5 kilometers of adhesive tape to create this art work.

An Interesting Example of Material Use

Kim Cogan, 2009, 36 x 32, 36 x 42.

Cogan uses unwashed, clogged brushes to help avoid undue detail, lending a look that avoides being photorealistic. He paints with oil.

Interesting Process

James Castle, "Photoalbum", (10 1/4 x 81/2 in.)

The artist used soot and spit on flattened envelopes to create his own photo-albums.

Interesting Material

Artist: Edward Burtynsky

Title: Oxford Tire Pile #8

Date: 1999

Location: Westley, California

Print Size: 40 x 50 ''

Material Photographed: Tires

Photograph is a chromogenic print