2008 Woodie Awards
Campus covered with sculpture
Katie Gregowicz
Issue date: 10/16/07 Section: A&E
Eleven student artists will display their sculptures at the fourth annual sculpture walk. The walk will begin at 4 p.m. Friday in front of the Art & Design Building.
Art education and sculpture major Jacob Francois is the chair of the sculpture committee and also an artist on the walk. His sculpture comments on communication.
"It's about the visceral qualities lost through deviated communication," Francois said. "People are always text messaging or listening to their iPod and not paying attention."
Graduate student Matty Kleinberg's sculpture looks at housing trends in America. It has three fences, each representing the average square footage of housing in 1907, 1957, 50 years before SIUE was built, and 2007. He said the houses keep getting bigger while family size does not.
"It shows the evolution of how American culture has prioritized its need for personal space," Kleinberg said.
He said it is a national trend, but the examples shown in his sculpture are from houses in the Edwardsville area over the past 100 years.
Deborah Alma Wheeler's sculpture, "From Subject to Author," is a life size woman on top of a Ford Escort.
"It employs an investigation of the meaning of sex and gender embodied subjects," Wheeler said. "In essence it's a recontextualization of the idea of a woman figure as a trophy or ornament."
Wheeler said by using a life-size woman, she hopes the viewer will question his or her own ethics. Using an Escort as the car comments further on the idea of a woman as an arm trophy.
At 1 p.m. the day of the walk there will be an artist lecture in the Art & Design atrium. Visiting artist Ledelle Moe will select a first, second and third place sculpture and the winners will receive a monetary prize. The winners will be announced at the awards banquet at 7 p.m.
The Sculptors
Emily Dunlap sculpting Folded Flowers
Jacob Francois sculpting Click to Talk
Aaron Held sculpting Shovelhead
Dana Hildebrand sculpting Landscape
Matty Kleinberg sculpting Advocation/Preservation
Blake La Rue sculpting Fallen Gateway
John McMillan sculpting More
Nathan Miller sculpting Untitled
Tara Morton sculpting Sex Sells
Eric J. Nauman sculpting Plethora
Alex Oslace sculpting Transmutation
Deborah Alma Wheeler sculpting From Subject to Author
Art education and sculpture major Jacob Francois is the chair of the sculpture committee and also an artist on the walk. His sculpture comments on communication.
"It's about the visceral qualities lost through deviated communication," Francois said. "People are always text messaging or listening to their iPod and not paying attention."
Graduate student Matty Kleinberg's sculpture looks at housing trends in America. It has three fences, each representing the average square footage of housing in 1907, 1957, 50 years before SIUE was built, and 2007. He said the houses keep getting bigger while family size does not.
"It shows the evolution of how American culture has prioritized its need for personal space," Kleinberg said.
He said it is a national trend, but the examples shown in his sculpture are from houses in the Edwardsville area over the past 100 years.
Deborah Alma Wheeler's sculpture, "From Subject to Author," is a life size woman on top of a Ford Escort.
"It employs an investigation of the meaning of sex and gender embodied subjects," Wheeler said. "In essence it's a recontextualization of the idea of a woman figure as a trophy or ornament."
Wheeler said by using a life-size woman, she hopes the viewer will question his or her own ethics. Using an Escort as the car comments further on the idea of a woman as an arm trophy.
At 1 p.m. the day of the walk there will be an artist lecture in the Art & Design atrium. Visiting artist Ledelle Moe will select a first, second and third place sculpture and the winners will receive a monetary prize. The winners will be announced at the awards banquet at 7 p.m.
The Sculptors
Emily Dunlap sculpting Folded Flowers
Jacob Francois sculpting Click to Talk
Aaron Held sculpting Shovelhead
Dana Hildebrand sculpting Landscape
Matty Kleinberg sculpting Advocation/Preservation
Blake La Rue sculpting Fallen Gateway
John McMillan sculpting More
Nathan Miller sculpting Untitled
Tara Morton sculpting Sex Sells
Eric J. Nauman sculpting Plethora
Alex Oslace sculpting Transmutation
Deborah Alma Wheeler sculpting From Subject to Author
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