American Visions

While I'm working on updating the blog with all of the things I've been neglecting, its time to add some theater work. American Visions was a series of 3  one acts written by Samuel Sheppard. It was produced by the Purchase College Repertory Theater Company. I was the Assistant Scenic Designer on it, working under Michael Hirsch. The Director was Zenon Kruszelnicki. It was an honor and a pleasure to work with such a phenomenal team, and the work could not have turned out better.

The Visit

I thought it was time to post some of my theater work, seeing as how it's all getting buried in Fine Art. This a is 1/2"-1' scale model of a set design that I made in class last semester. The Show was called The visit,  by Friedrich Durrenmatt. The show is about an impoverished town on the brink of starvation, that is visited by a former resident who has, since leaving, become a billionaire. She offers to give the town 1 billion dollars, provided they kill her ex-boyfriend. It is a very brechtian play with a sardonic tongue and cheek nature and many locations. I attempted to fit both the needs and the style of the play by creating a unit set that could function to adapt to the many locations and also add to the dry humor of the writing style.

Work for D&B

I have been extremely neglectful of this blog. I apologize to anyone who has been trying to follow my work and has been unable to due to a lack of posts. Rest assured that the lack of documentation is no indication of a lack of work. I have recently taken a large batch of portfolio pictures of many of my pieces this year; and to avoid the aforementioned issue, I will be posting these over a longer period of time, instead of all at once. So please stay tuned, there will be a lot of working coming over the next few weeks.

To begin catching you up on my recent activities, I figured I would start with my employment this summer. I worked with a company named Design and Build. I was a content creator for a projection design team that worked with a Denver baller company named the Zikr dance ensemble. Lead by David Taylor, the company focuses it's work on sacred dances and traditions from all around the world.  We collaborated on a two hour modern ballet performance that took place at the Parker Arts Center. It was my responsibility to create the content used to project on the floor and backdrop of the theater. It was an amazing experience because it allowed me to work in several different mediums. I worked with photography, paint, ink, graphite, computer graphics, and stop animation. For example in one piece I created a video animation of a drafting and rendering of the Chartres cathedral in France. the cathedral was built around the dancers line by line, and then collapsed. The piece included graphics of computer animations of fractal art, that would travel through intricate mathematical equations in the windows of the cathedral. It was an amazing experience, and I'm thankful to have learned so much from this team.

Props Projects

Props was one of my favorite classes, I love to make creative projects and bring things to life. I thought I would share two of my favorite projects

This is a cockentryce it was a popular feast dish in medieval times. They would take the top half of a chicken and sew it to the bottom half of a pig before they cooked it. 

This is an Okapi. It's a real animal and if you don't believe me look it up. 

Rendering

These are just a few of the assignments from my rendering class this year.

This is a 1/2" sketch done for the artistic direction of a scene that takes place in an aquarium.

 A watercolor painting of the architectural details of a building.

 An achromatic still life of blocks.

 A watercolor still life of blocks.

 A watercolor portrait of a bust.

The next two pictures are a handmade comic. 

 Four Achromatic fabric drawings 

 A reproduction on black of Triumphant love by Caravagio