by Ryan Seslow | Jul 23, 2020 | Art, News, Sculpture, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
This post is part 2 of the Paper, Light & Storytelling Project – be sure to read Part 1 first. Welcome to Part 2! Lets add some compelling light to our piece. After cutting and organizing your pieces onto the wall lets talk about options for how they can...
by Ryan Seslow | Jul 14, 2020 | Art, News, Sculpture, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
How-to make an ephemeral paper sculpture.. from Home! Here is a fun tutorial that you can follow along with from home and visually through the images in this thread. Feel free to improvise any materials or hack the whole project. The goal of the project is to...
by Ryan Seslow | Jan 4, 2020 | Art, Digital Art, Exhibition, News, Sculpture, Useful Articles / Essays |
The fall semester of 2019 was incredibly productive. Im reflecting on many things as we have now enetered the new decade! I completed another great semester of teaching the foundation level of sculpture courses at Iona College. I have taught this course (2 sections)...
by Ryan Seslow | Oct 21, 2019 | Art, Exhibition, GIF, News, Press, Sculpture, Teaching, Video Art |
Currently on view at the Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Im happy to share this modular body of work for the Iona College Visual Art Program Faculty Exhibition. The exhibition runs through 12/5/19 – I hope you can check it out in person! If not, here is a...
by Ryan Seslow | Mar 9, 2019 | Art, News, Sculpture, Teaching |
Im excited to share this building new series of paper sculptures here on my website today. For the most part, they are all ephemeral. Thats right, they have a short life span. Paper is very temperature sensitive, so I have learned. Discovery = awareness. I love this...
by Ryan Seslow | Sep 1, 2018 | Animation, Art, GIF, News, Sculpture |
Frozen. Im recasting outdated hard-drives, but they only exist for a few hours.. A rubber mold filled with water and a change in temperature over time solidifies its presence. A metaphor for memories and the way memories are stored, accessed and revisited. If the...
by Ryan Seslow | Mar 3, 2018 | Art, News, Sculpture, Teaching |
Making Forms by Reduction, Continued 2018 One of my favorite art making past times is creating subjective reduction sculptures from various materials. The materials over the years have ranged from clay, foam core, plaster, wood, soap stone, alabaster, limestone and...
by Ryan Seslow | Dec 27, 2017 | Art, News, Sculpture, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
Artist Interviews: David Stahl & Ryan Seslow December 2017 This past fall during one of our monthly studio visits, David Stahl and I came up with an idea to interview each other and discover a bit more about each other’s artistic process. It was a lot of...
by RYAN SESLOW | Nov 3, 2017 | Art, News, Sculpture, Street Art & Graffiti |
“Es El Oh Dubbayou” November 2017 – Recycled Cardboard Arrangement Relief A new addition to the ongoing series of Abstract Letter Forms, S L O W – translates to “es el oh dubbayou” if you spell the individual letters. Check out more...
by RYAN SESLOW | Nov 2, 2017 | Art, News, Sculpture, Street Art & Graffiti |
Front Side, Back Side, Letter-Forms, 2017 – A flow of fluid planes carved from balsa foam. The piece has not been painted at this point. I plan to do some observational drawing from the forms before they are painted. This piece joins the ongoing series of...