Sunday, December 7, 2008

Holiday Sale




Some images from the Holiday Sale at Creativity Explored, where the assemblage pieces are showing (December 5 through December 30, 2008). Images forwarded by CE 2 studio manager Francis E. Kohler.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

Norman's 4th guitar

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Mel's fifth piece

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frontal view

back view

Toby's 4th piece

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Richard and his finished object

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Jay and his finished tower

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Norman made his third guitar today

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Mel worked on his fourth piece

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Melvin is a great and prolific artist with his own unique vision. He works so fast I barley get enough wood to satisfy his needs to build and paint his objects.

Sue started today transforming a found wood piece

,Sue Chan participated today in the workshop as well. It was new to her, but she had fun.

Toby working on this fourth piece

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Thomas immersed in his pan america card board pyramid

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Jay's tower got another level today

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Toby's third piece

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Norman's two Beatles guitars

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Richard still loves to work on his piece

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Thanh's second day painting her object

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Thomas working on his cardboard piece

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Melvin painted his three eyed faces on each of his three objects

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Larry is almost done with his house and yard

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Larry wanted to be photographed with his object.

Allura's piece after almost two month work

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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Warren's object - his last day of glueing

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Thomas wanted to build the Pan America building

,Thomas Pringle wanted to build something more complex. We agreed to use card board for his project. He asked me to assist him making a model of the Pan America building in San Francisco.

Thomas is besides Larry the only artist participating in the wood workshop, who wanted to create something specific. All the other artist just went for the scraps of wood and started intuitively to assemble semi-abstract objects, open to free associations, depending on their ability to handle the materials.

Some pieces might look similar, this could be related to the same work method of the majority of the artists and the availability of the same random shapes of wood. This is a scrap wood workshop and unless an artist has a concrete idea, the created objects get a kind of universal appearance unless one enforces his own ideas. Like in Normans case, if I wouldn't have suggested to help him make "Beatles" guitars, he wouldn't have participated at all.

Norman and his second Beatles guitar

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Melvin loves to paint his 3rd piece

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Larry worked on the roof again

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Thanh wanted to paint her piece today

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Warren wanted to have some skyscrapers

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Richard's piece after working on it 2 more days

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Mel's third painted object in progress

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Jay worked on his piece again

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Larrys' house in progress

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Thanh's piece looks kind of manhattenish

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Warren's object

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Allura's piece after working on it for two more days

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