Casting Project

-Tony Valentine-

Lightbulb Luminosity
By combining different stages and materials together the attention
to the group as a whole is heightened. Even though some may
outshine others, each contributes an idea to the mix; Irony, history,
functionality, etc. The intensity of the working lightbulb would
need to be controlled to make this a lasting piece.

Add caption

 Zachary Wiseman

Coffee Cups
 Brown Wax, Plaid Shirt

  Matthew Glowacki

Intoxicated Flamingos
plaster, metal re bar, spray paint, latex paint, yarn

  Zil Lambert

Plaster picnic
(Sandwich, juice box, nutty bar)

Kasie Fischer

Fallen Heroes
Wax
For this project I wanted to show that even heroes can fall. The masks are made of wax to show strength as well as vulnerability.

  Rachel Wallace

Lollipops
(Plaster, Acrylic & Gesso)

 Elizabeth Welle

Muffin
(Acrylic paint on plaster-muffin replica)

Jenna Teich

Laptop

Plaster, spray paint, acrylic paint

Blessings Banda

"Kick the Can"

Plaster, wax, Trash can

This boot was made of concrete, which creates a connotation with weight, strength, and value. The boot is high heel and a shape that implies a practical working woman. The concrete here speaks about her strength, the weight which she may feel lies upon her in her position or that she feels is out of place, a working woman in a construction site perhaps.  The fact that the boot is misshapen and imperfect at the top creates a narrative for the viewer, as if whatever may have happened was unfortunate, unexpected, or that the owner of the boot herself may feel as though her life is in similar condition. The evidence of the casting process left along the edges, adds to this feeling of effort or imperfection.
Amanda Wiser

Amy Waldorf

Plaster, wax and acrylic paint. 

The materials I used along with the color of the paint, the plastic plate and the low table speak in a joking manner about kids' play fruit. Instead of being small, light and appropriately colored, my fruit was large, hard and discolored. It was also very playful. 

These are cheese graters cast out of plaster and wax. Using the material I did made the object completely lose its functionality.

Sarah Wehr

Adam Smith

Handcrafting Hubcaps

The original car hubcaps that I cast were stamped out of stainless steel in great numbers using a single, simple hand-crafted tooling, like virtually all common sheet metal objects.  Each new hubcap would be produced in the blink of an eye, and come out shiny and identical.  The process of creating a latex mold, plaster mother mold, and casting the plaster hubcaps was very labor-intensive and took a great deal of time, and often the results were imperfect.  While aesthetically pleasing, the plaster hubcaps are useless as actual hubcaps, and they lack the mirrored perfection of the factory originals.

Patti Rossow

Iron

Torrey Weisberg

Rail Road Spikes

Milli Fitzgerald

Twisted Mason Jars

 Name

Title

 Doug solem

Duchamp Inspired Gatorade
When researching Duchamp i decided to cast this Gatorade bottle, mocking Duchamp's creation of ready-made objects.  even though this was not a ready-made i think it gets across my humor and overall message i was going for.

Name

Title