Looking at Victoria Christen’s work is an obvious way to look at a coil-built form. Her form White Basket is made of thick coils stuck together on a vase-like shape. This piece has the ability to play with light because of all the open space in the form. It is also appreciated as a functional piece since it is able to hold objects and the holes are large enough to hold on to.
Resignation. Andrea Keys Connell. Earthenware, 2'x1.5'x1', 200.
Every artist should be familiar with the human anatomy. However, there are times when artists make a stylized version of the human figure. Andrea Keys Connell creates giant human figures and tends to make then more on the stout side. Despite that Resignation is not the best example of this; Connell’s pieces have so much character to them. Resignation was chosen as an example of a coil-built human torso.
The Infant II. Gabrial Parque. 20x11x12, 2011.
Gabrial Parque depicts baby/fetus-like features in his sculptures often partnered with Christian symbolism. What really intrigues me about these pieces, besides the choice in subject matter, is the detail Parque puts into them. The height of The Infant II is twenty inches and yet the details in the features of the infant’s body are so accurate; down to the wrinkles in the infant’s hands.
Untitled. Ryan LaBar. Porcelain, 2011.
The final piece here is visually stimulating. Ryan LaBar uses a unique style in creating his form. They appear to be a mesh of different sets of mechanical pieces that were molded with clay. The elements flow in a way a mechanical gear should never bend. To me it seems that LaBar never starts with a designed structure in mind, and yet the end result comes out to be beautifully balanced.