Documenting the physical processes and conceptual evolution of the work by Benjamin Carpenter
Due to the expected social unrest revolving around the shooting of Oscar Grant and the resulting trial of Officer Johannes Mehserle,
the Cathedral Gallery will postpone its show – FLUX – until:
Tuesday, July 20th show opens (regular gallery hours)
Thursday, July 29th Artist Reception 6-9pm
Friday August 6th First Friday Art Walk 6-9pm
Friday August 13th Closing, music by Daniel Yasmin & Co 6-9pm
Follow the details on the trial here
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I made this video to illustrate how dramatic the processes of metalworking can look in the right conditions.
Several posts earlier is a series of photos that demonstrate the construction of three steel eyeballs. Those eyeballs and the pipe being cut in this video are part of the same kinetic sculpture.
More to come as the piece comes together.
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Four Minute School – Art History from David Goetsch on Vimeo.
My favorite part is the comment about Creed.
Here is an video I shot years ago on a trip to central Mexico. I went with a group of artists to visit the legendary coppersmiths of the town of Santa Clara Del Cobre. This town had been founded generations ago near a copper mine, which has since been the source of its commerce. These men were all members of one of the better known coppersmithing families.
They gave us this demo on forging a block of smelted copper ore into a flat sheet. From there, the hammered sheet is put aside until another smith forms it into a vessel shape. These days, the families use power hammers to do the rough forging, if they can afford them, but much of the work is still done by hand like this.
These guys were amazingly precise with their blows. It is hard to tell from the video, but they are all hitting the same spot. One smith takes the lead and the rest of them hit the metal where the previous man struck.
My favorite part of this was watching them enter the action one by one until they are all in motion. It reminded me of seeing the “wave” at the ball park.
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The third installment of work done by my students in the Sculpture dept. this past year at SFSU.
Rachel Jennings, a painting major, shaped and carved all these blades by hand and used two simple motors to power the piece.
Simple but elegant.
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The project that Five Ton Crane was formed around gets installed this week at the Dogfish Head brewery in Milton Delaware. This article was takes from the Dogfish Head Brewery’s website today.
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