sculpture and extended media
All sculpture courses are taught by Amy Hauber, Assistant Professor.
“Encountering the complexity and ambivalence in contemporary sculpture, one stands in awe. Reviewing the pasthalf century we find primary structures and minimal art, kinetic, junk, assemblage, object, reductive … hard edge, soft, structured, serial repetition, happenings, environments, multiples… punk, pop, op, combined, technological, and systems-oriented sculpture, plus all the traditional forms… Add to all of these expressions the involvements in the past few years of conceptual, informational, situational, body art, performance, and theatrical forms; stir in process; add a dash of self-concern with reality and the environment; the result is overpowering.“
-excerpt from The Ambivalence of Sculpture, James J. Kelly
Hauber says about sculpture courses at SLU:
“Reading the excerpt from James J. Kelly’s recent publication, it is easy to see why the term “sculpture” alone is no longer enough to describe what is being done in the world of contemporary art when the work does not neatly fit into a category such as drawing, painting or photography.”
Students studying sculpture at St. Lawrence will be educated in the fundamentals of 3D design and will be exposed to a number of processes and images both contemporary and historic/traditional. As in all of my courses, attempt to strike a balance between technical craft and conceptual development. Because “sculpture” has grown into such an enormous and broad discipline, students will be expected to work in traditional processes such as observational sculpting, wood and metal fabrication, carving or other reductive methods, soft sculptural processes, ephemeral processes such as environmental works and so on.
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MORE STUDENT WORK coming soon!
