Sofía Reeser's work...

Curve Study. After learning all the types of curves, with wire one had to create a three dimentional desing that balanced on three points. I started with the spiral, making my piece take the form of a seashell. I used a thick wire for the 3 major spirals and a really thin one to weave them together. I love working with wire.

Plaster!! Fun fun fun...

First time ever using plaster, it is a very messy, temperd, but exiting medium to work with.

After a few days of just experimenting, creating different forms we had to put our pieces together, thinking of the X and Y aixis. I decided to incorporate in my design wire, connecting the past project with the current one. Balance played a huge role on my design, as shown in the close up picture, one plaster form is connected by wire to another one that is suspended inches off the ground.

Self portrait.

Made of plaster. The process was very exiting, first we shaped oil base clay as to represent us, after the game of memory, looking in the mirror, and translating it into the clay one creates a cast to pour in the plaster, and after a lot of work you’ve got yourself a sculpted self portrait.

In the second semester of 3D we looked up and researched a building in Manhattan from where a three dimentional structure was to be created, we had to use at least one characteristic from the building in our design. I researched the American Standard Building by Brayant Park, what striked me the most was its color, Black brick with Golden Deco Art details. The materials used for this project: wood, black cardboard gold leaf and black ink. For this project I had envissioned a totally different design, and after breaking it this organic structure was produced.

...I’ve learned that the process is the most important thing in creating.

you are never in control of what lays ahead only of what you have and are doing right this moment. When one is enjoying the process everything flows and things can brake, crack and get 'destroyed' but from it one keeps creating and building possibilities.

For this project we had to researched a plant, I researched a Korean flower and basically looked for a piece of wood that I felt would be good to work with, so I picked this small log from the park and started chipping away and away and away wood, I build up a lot of muscle doing this project, it looks like not a lot of work went into it but a lot did, and that was the purpose, make the piece look as if nature itself had carved it away....I coated it with some toxic smelling oil and used acrylic paint to bring in the hue of the flowers I had researched. I had a great time with this project, just being in the wood shop, chipping, and drilling and sanding felt really good!

Erin Johnson's Work

This piece was designed after the Pom Pom Dahlia. I abstracted the idea that everything fits perfectly together. I cut all the pieces out of wood and then I wove them together using wire.

This is my piece made using the Fibonocci Numbers. It's an elephant!

This piece was created using all the different types of curves. It is Atlas.

The idea of this piece was to portray an emotion. My emotion was nervous. The eyes were shifty and the block head was sweating.

Alexandria Hornsteins Projects

"The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. -Leonardo DaVinci"



This class was the busy-as-a-bee class. Every Monday all the members of my class could be found hunched over the large tables of the Stuben Pratt Studios. We worked with various materials, we glued, nailed, tied, and bended, in order to complete one of the most tedious tasks imaginable; making a sculpture. The valuable lessons I learned in this class, along with patience, are owed to all the differing materials I’ve worked with. Professor Welz opened my eyes to many uncharted territories; plaster, wire, wood, etc. I also realized my love for an art form that takes a lot of time, but in the end, physically making something with your hands that takes as much effort and focus, as any sculpture that was made in this class required, was well worth it.

Anne Hong's Projects

First Semester

For this project we filled condoms with plaster and made interesting forms with our hands. We made some funny forms and put together by drilling or pegging.

We researched and observed the movement of an animal we chose. And we had to show the movement through ou pieces. I chose walrus. As it moves forward it uses its front two flippers by turns. So I used a cylinder to roll and make the movement.

We were to make a wearable piece that makes sound. I made button shoes. I sewed and attached many buttons and beads on my old shoes. I glued them loosely so they will make sound.

My chosen word for this project was 'secret'. I made a box with an object cannot see but only touch. The object had each different textures from four different sides. I tried to represent my word by this guessing box.

Carina Liebmann's Second Semester Stuff

For the self portrait we started with clay, which we used to made a plaster mold out of.

We then pour plaster into the mold, and then carve into the plaster for details.

This project was a bit tricky and had a lot of room for mess-ups. It took a while for me to break off the mold from the plaster face. However, I found the process interesting.

For the architecture project we had to pick a building and use attributes from that building to create a sculpture.

I picked a Brooklyn apartment building.

I used the building's four levels of roof as my main focus.

I wanted my sculpture to move upward with a floating light feel. I put weights at the bottom coil of my sculpture, which supported the entire sculpture without having to add supports to the other coils. I played with the idea of having an element connecting all the layers and decided on tissue paper flowing from the top to the bottom.

For my plant project I did the Sundew plant. We had to used attributes from our plant and create a relating sculpture from wood. My plant is carnivorous, and has a bright red bottom which is spiked and captures the insects. I found it ironic because the top of the plant has a single little white flower at a time and looks inviting, while the bottom is so dangerous.

I used the idea of gentle and clam transferring to dangerous for my piece. I carved the piece out of a block of wood and for the bottom spikes I broke dowels into curves.

The sand blasting project was a lot of fun. I just wish we had more time on it. We had to design the bottles based off of an environmental awareness idea. I did a water theme, and illustrated a drought, a flood, and dirty water. I filled the bottles to go with each theme.

Miki Bauer's 3D Portfolio

The first project of the year incorporates line as a tool to express form. We were supposed to incorporate all eight types of curves in this piece and successfully support it on only three points. I used soldering and thin wire to support my joints.



Plaster sculptures were definitely an experience. I will never forget Perri's condom exploding all over her nor the tap-tap technique we were taught. The two best shapes that I produced and incorporated were the long sticks and the hollow sphere. The three point rule was enforced again, and to support my form I used wooden dowels besides plaster. I enjoyed this project very much.

The noise making project was the first one where everybody's style could truly be seen. There was a lot of variation between all of the final projects. I decided to produce a basic shape of a helmet out of plaster, and then add spray cans to the top in order to make noise. Warrior resembling paint and fake blood were applied for emphasized effect.







The movement project was an ambitious and elaborate assignment. I picked the Bald Eagle as my inspiration and I mimicked the movement of the claws. The base and the skeleton of the claws are constructed from wood and the joints are brass tubes. The skeleton is lined with rope and the inside is lined with stretched rubber bands, so when you pull on the rope the claws extend and when you let go they automatically contract.

For the final project I received the word Serious, which I thought was a horrible word, but only personally. I could not come up with any technical design in my head. So I chose a more traditional way, I changed the word to Seriously? and produced a bust of Alex Wood in that expression. The piece is made entirely of oil based clay and it is seated on top of a wooden base.

The plaster self portrait was the first project of the second semester. We went through the whole process of making a clay model, a mold, and then refining the final product that came out of the mold.




My last documented project is the architecture piece. This was the most elaborate design I have ever tried to construct. It consists of four main parts (the motor and the arms, the mid-skeleton grid, the top cover, and the individual boxes) and it is fully deconstructible. I used basswood for everything and brass tubes for joints. Skateboard bearings for the arms and styrofoam balls for the curve under each box. The boxes were supposed to lift individually and independently as the arm would go under them (due to the semi-circle shape of the parts in contact). Unfortunately, it did not work out the way I wanted it to; the boxes lifted, but the movement was jagged and not smooth. Overall, I spent about 40 hours on this project.

Pamela's Wood Project

For this project, I started out with several pieces of scrap wood that I cut in half and then used wood glue to adhere them together. I also cut some of the curves on the pieces before I glued them together. Wood filler really helped fill in the unwanted holes and cracks in the wood. The two pictures above and below are process works taken from different angles.

I had fun painting this sculpture with acrylic and I accentuated its form but putting the lighter colors on the bumps and the darker colors in the grooves.