This show was something of a surprise. After I created Paper Dragon, my professor told me to work on my own projects. Most of my classmates were dental majors, only myself and one other student were art majors. I worked on one other class project which had us experimenting with plaster. Mine failed spectacularly at coming anywhere close to what I had intended. It was made of 5 pieces, four of which I destroyed immediately after showing the piece to my professor. I kept the 5th piece which I turned into the world's ugliest flower vase. After the plaster experiment I decided to work on my own projects. On April 29 I brought all of the pieces I had been working on since the completion of "Paper Dragon" in February. I made small gallery style labels to go with each piece. In another class we were tasked with writing artist statement's for a possible exhibit. As I knew I would be showing my work to the sculpture class, I wrote my statement about the pieces. I assumed that my sculpture class would be the only people to see the work and I would immediately pack everything back into my car. I made the labels to show students that might not otherwise visit a gallery what an exhibit was like including the prices of my work. I assumed I would give a small talk and that would be it. Not so.
I brought seven pieces to class, three of which weren't fully completed. To my shock and embarrasment, my professor had me hang all seven pieces in the hallway of the building, just outside the sculpture studio. This is standard practice for classwork but generally for the whole class, not just one student. It is also not standard practice for the pieces to be priced so I felt a bit pretentious but put the labels up anyways. One of the pieces, Arunuz, I finished the afternoon of April 28th. On May 1, I received a text message from another student wishing to purchase it. I had never expected to actually sell a piece at school to another student. I was thrilled and extremely grateful for the opportunity that my professor gave me to show my work to so many students and faculty.
Here are some pictures.....
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