Sara's Senior Show - Apr 10th, 2009

Sara had her Senior Art Show Exhibition for her Bachelor of Fine Arts Thesis on the evening of April 10th at BSU. Altogether, there were 16 graduating artists with work on exhibit and a ton of people came for the show. It is our general consensus/bias that Sara's work was the hit of the show. It was amazing...

Sara, putting the finishing touches on one of her raw-hide pieces at home.

Working in the studio at BSU.

Below are the pictures of Sara's show. With the exception of the first picture below (the male back with antlers) all of Sara's pieces came in pairs, one sculpture of Aluminum, and one sculpture in raw-hide. To get the two pieces finished is a lot of work. First she has to cast a person's body parts. Then she has to make a wax mold from the cast. Next, she makes a 'cement' mold around the wax mold by dipping the wax piece in a vat of glue and then sand several different times, letting the mold dry between each dipping. After the 'cement' mold is finished it is fired (the wax melts out and the mold turns to a hard cement). Finally, comes the metal pour... and the 'finished' metal sculpture. Sara took this project a step farther with making the raw-hide pieces. Once her aluminum molds were done, she then wrapped and sewed wet raw-hide around the metal pieces and let it dry. When it was finished drying she carefully removed the hard raw-hide and sewed it back together. The result is sturdy raw-hide cast of the metal pieces which looks like flesh and nothing more... She put so much work into these pieces and the pictures just don't do them justice, but here they are:

The Gallery Show!!!

Aluminum and Antlers

Contorted female figure in Aluminum.

Contorted female figure in raw-hide.

Hanging Aluminum figure of man.

Hanging raw-hide figure of man.

Aluminum, male back and arm, female front.

Raw-hide, male back and arm, female front.

Part of the Gallery set-up.

The artist speaking about her work.

Patty and Bill with Sara.

Grandma Morris and Roz at show.

The Barbecue celebration the next day!

We had a fabulous time helping Sara celebrate the completion of such a huge project and the culmination of so many hundreds and hundreds (if not thousands) of hours worth of work. It's amazing how much effort and thought she put into her pieces. We are very proud of her!