Bianca Lee Vasquez

Irby Pace

This isn't really sculpture but proves my point about the importance of the camera in this type of art. Without it Pace couldn't create these impressive pieces of work.

Idle Voids - Pop! project

Linda Gordon

Linda makes outdoor work mostly out of natural material like leaves, stones, shells and so on.

Early Sculpture

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Saint Mark by Donatello, made in the early 1400's out of marble.

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Parvati 11th century, copper alloy

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17th/18th century carved ivory.

Early Ephemeral Sculpture

Lindsey Allgood

Lindsey Allgood uses a very odd collection of material to make her sculptures, including pubic hair, eggshell and menstrual blood.

The ephemeral aspect of her work seems to be mostly about deterioration and things rotting. She also uses dead insects in some pieces. 

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Allgood views the body as a material and site and practices her process with her experience as a female. She likes to materials that are symbolic that are often organic and fragile. She also takes part in her own performances

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Presentation Plan

Introduction -  definition of Ephemeral
                        definition of Sculpture


What sculpture used to be made of.
Did they create ephemeral sculpture?
How would we know if they did?
So what is the point?


Several slides of ephemeral sculpture...
brief explanation of the artist and the material.


Mention of the easy access to camera and film and how actually nothing has to be totally ephemeral anymore as there can always be documentation of it.
Also mention that in fact its more spectacular that the physical form of the artwork doesn't last because it is limited, more valuable. Like one off masterpieces etc.

Mathilde Roussel

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The idea behind this project was to represent the human body and how it transforms over time and then inevitably decays. They also draw our attention to famine and the need of soil.

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