Monday, March 15, 2010

Beverly Pepper Response

Artist #1 Beverly Pepper
My Response




I was inspired by the idea of erosion in Pepper's work. I used charcoal (a medium I respond to in drawing) to express this idea. It reminded me of the black sand beach in Santorini created from a volcanic eruption thousands of years ago. Also, Beverly Pepper creates her sculptures by cutting styrofoam and they are not predetermined. Her process of arriving at simple shapes was the same approach I took to building this tiny sculpture. I really enjoyed using drawing materials I love in a sculpture. It's a tiny and intimate. Any suggestions for using charcoal in the future?

1 comment:

Russell Maycumber said...

still looks like it would taste of liquorish