Art Show_ Kriewall-Haehl Gallery

These are some pictures of my first personal art show. It was fun working with space and setting up the show. The process was tiring but somehow it worked out pretty good. Most art are open for sale.
Unfortunately, one piece of my art work broke due to its fragility... =(

It broke somehow.

Summer Work_ Air-dry Clay Sculpture, Head

So this is my summer art work, 3D; idea and concept are based on Alberto Giacometti's overall style and his Bronze metal work "Head" that I found at Chicago's Art Institute while I was there this summer.

However, I did not really look at Giacometti's work while I was working on my sculpture, so it is kind of hard to tell that my inspiration is from his work. For the material, I used air-dry clay (paper clay) instead of bronze. I do so one because it's much cheaper and that I do

not want to burn down my aunt and uncle's house by setting up a torch station since I will have a foundry class later anyways.

The paint I used to (attempt to...) give the metal look is Golden Acrylic Paint, made from

plastic basically. I think overall the texture of this sculpture can be improved a lot by using

material other than air-dry clay. This is really because it took a lot of patience to smooth out the surface of the sculpture due to the chunkiness of the clay. Next time it'd better if I use other materials, probably like plaster or clay used for ceramic.

I do not know the actual process(or more common process) of making a head sculpture, so I ended up using a wooden

stick as support for the neck and a styrofoam ball for the head.

Head, Grant Lin (side)

Head, Grant Lin (back)

Head, Alberto Giacometti, Bronze(front)

Head, Alberto Giacometti, Bronze(back)

Alberto Giacometti on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Giacometti
Two Other Artists: David Casella, Ju Ming