Yard cuttings, wood shavings and wax= my next bronze casting.
I am still tweaking the wax sculpture before spruing it up.
Another fowl-
Wood shavings make awesome feathers.
Sprued and ready to dip
Another view.
"forgotten soul"
Will Michels http://madebywill.com/
just sent me this photo he took of my sculpture.
This piece was sculpted out of wax and organic material to create texture and emotion of a lost and forgotten immigrant. I then made a mold of the wax sculpture and cast it in bronze. The mold is destroyed to get the bronze out - resulting in a one of kind bronze.
forgotten soul - S. Erickson
12.5" w x 9"d x 10.5" T
bronze
photo booth will Michels
S. Erickson was one of the thousands who died at the Oregon state mental hospital whose ashes were abandoned inside 3500 copper urns. I saw his picture in the newspaper and could not forget him. "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" was filmed at Oregon state mental hospital. His file stated he was a laborer and suffered from senility, he came to New York in 1883 from Norway. Mr. Erickson was one of the forgotten souls but I could not forget him.
Texas National 2017
"the last straw" Accepted
April 8, - June 10th
About the juror: Benito Huerta
Huerta has a B.F.A. from the University of Houston, an M.A. from New Mexico State University. He was co-founder, Executive Director and Emeritus Board Director of Art Lies, a Texas Art Journal. He is a Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington where he has been Director/Curator of The Gallery at UTA since 1997.
Huerta’s work is currently featured in a one-person exhibition, “Written in the Wind” at Glassell Gallery, Shaw Center for the Arts, LSU, Baton Rouge from March 18 – April 13, 2014 and upcoming exhibitions at Avis Frank Gallery, Houston, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, and at the Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas. His work was also the focus of a 20 year survey exhibition entitled, Intermission, at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago in 2011. Other recent one person exhibitions, September Song, 2013, at William Campbell Contemporary Art, Fort Worth; Meaning of Sight, 2010, at the Ellen Noel Art Museum in Odessa, and a 13 year survey exhibition, Soundings: Benito Huerta 1992 – 2005, 2005-2007, at the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi and the El Paso Museum of Art.
He was the recipient of Dallas Center for Contemporary Art’s 2002 Legend of the Year Award and Exhibition and is the recipient of first Maestros Tejanos exhibition, 2008, at the Latino Cultural Center, Dallas. His work is in several museum and corporate collections throughout the United States.
He is currently working on Urban Village: South Main Street public art project and completed work on the Marine Creek Park Corridor Master Plan / Conceptual Design in Fort Worth, Texas. Recent public art projects include SnakePath (Mexican Milk Snake), Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, Texas (2007); Wings, DFW International Terminal D Skylink Terrazzo Floor designs (2005), Axis, Henry Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio (2003), and two Medical Center Light Rail Stations for Houston Metro, in collaboration with PDG Architects (2004).
As a curator he has organized traveling surveys/retrospectives of Luis Jimenez, Mel Chin, and Celia Alvarez Munoz. Recently he organized Flow: Dalton Maroney 1982-2011, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas; San Anto: Pride of the Southside / En El Mero Hueso – Alex Rubio and Vincent Valdez, Museo Alameda, San Antonio, Texas. He is organizing a retrospective of the work of John Hernandez for 2016 at The Gallery at UTA.
The Gallery at UTA was the recipient of the College Art Association’s Exhibition and Catalogue Grant (2007- 2008) for Points of Convergence: Masters of Fine Arts.
Photo by Will Michels
Lemonade hat
Last night I worked on chasing the piece. Chasing is repairing the surface from where the sprues were cut off).
Experiment.......
with a new burnout furnace. With this small furnace (designed by David Medina built by me with his instructions) the piece is poured in the burnout furnace instead of heating it in a big enclosed furnace and then moving it to a bucket of sand to pour the bronze.
"Happy dog"
happy dog
Ink on plastic
5' X 7'
"happy dog XIII" mono print
Ink and charcoal
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happy dog XIII monoprint
11" X 15"
I ouched this up with charcoal
One of my favorites
Wire cloth - building the patina.
Refired to help break down the stainless coating.
Next step - time to take a sledge hammer and break out the plaster.
The finish is coming along.
The he next step is to spray it with a bathroom cleanser to speed up the rusting process.
happy dog XIV mono - print
happy dog XIII
"gust" - the lemonade piece - progress as of 2/25
this is the piece at the end of the first night of work after removing the sprues.
Before grinding down the sprues
Sprues are ground down
The other side
"drifter"
Update
Detail of his left shoulder.
Left arm
That "gust" from the Gulf is hard on your hat
A better look at the lemonade piece
Ready to do the chasing
"gust" Piece #2 for my spring 2017 pours
Ready to start dipping
Kinder Morgan Gallery
"murmur of the water" was accepted into the Kinder Morgan "Line Line Line Exhibition". On view in Downtown Houston March 6th - June 2nd.
"murmur of the water"
79" X 50"
paint, ink, and pastels on stonehedge
"gust"
The lemonade piece - it is degated and sand blasted. The next step is to do the chasing and then figure out how to make it into lemonade since there is a little more pourocity than I was hoping for.
Future bronze - Frill back pigeon
happy dog VIII mono print
Detail
With border
"drifting" When hands tell your story"
I believe you can tell a lot about a person by looking at their hands. With this thought I decided to add the hands to my found object (wirecloth) figurative sculpture I call "drifting". The figurative piece is a study of evolution in an urban environment and the struggle to stay present, in the moment or focused. Below are two views of the figures left hand. I hope his hands reflect the struggle
