1st Year: Malevich Project

Instructions:

Choose a painting from the works of Kazimir Malevich.  Design a model of conceptual art museum to hold the body of his works on a site near Torrey Pines Golf Course.  Interpret the painting three dimensionally and extrude up the different shapes in the painting which makes up the overall composition.

1st Year: Mondrian Model

Instructions:

Choose a painting from the works of Peit Mondrian and interpret the painting and compose a three dimensional model that still reflects the overall aspect of the painting.

1st Year: Mondrian Distilj Wall

Instructions:

Choose a painting from the collection of paintings done by Peit Mondrian.  Build a model of a wall that accurately depicts the chosen painting.  The wall must have movable parts and fenestrations such as doors or windows.  Provide orthographic drawings and sections of the model in ink.

Instructions:

Create order to a chaotic site by using color, texture and spacing.

My site was the site of the unbuilt San Diego New Main Library (Park Blvd and J Street), currently it is an empty lot covered in tan dirt and clay.  

Synopsis: The intent of my intervention has two aspects: the first is to engage passengers and pedestrians as they travel around the site by providing unique colors, patterns.  The second intent is intended to critical jab to the City of San Diego for it's back seat stance on getting the library built.

Overview: triangular shaped poles are to be driven deep into the ground on the site, and arranged in a circular pattern with many layers toward the interior.

Triangular shaped poles will provide for three different "canvases".  Meaning that an image can be seen on three different sides of the poles when seen in the right perspective.

Each pole will be painted a portion of an overall composition (different on all three sides) so that from a distance one can vaguely se a distorted image until they are standing or pass by a point in the sidewalk where all  the individual images on all the poles align to allow the overall composition come into perspective.  It is then that the person passing by will see the whole image.

Seen form the East (top of board): a red background contrasts the backdrop of the city and within the poles are various shapes and patterns that come into perspective at varying points on the sidewalk.

Seen from the West (middle of the board): a white background provides a serene environment that contrasts the sky, and within the poles an image of the outline of the library that is supposed to be built on the site.

Seen from the South (bottom of the board): an abstract image of red bubbles rising out of the site can be seen, intended to convey the funky flavor of the East Village.

1st Year: Moving Grid

Instructions:

Choose three or four shapes.  Assign rules of movement to each shape that will, as the each shape progresses, create a dynamic and unique compositional grid.

My shapes: Square, Triangle, Rectangle.

Square (top left of the first grid space) moves upward out of the grid box and reappears in the bottom, Triangle (top right of the first grid space) pivots around one point, Rectangle (top right of the first grid space) moves to the right and out of the grid space.

1st Year: Grid

Instructions:

Choose a letter ("X") and by repeating the letter create a dynamic grid showing depth and an overall gestalt effect.

1st Year: Color Exercise

Instructions:

Choose a logo with varying colors and express four color phenomenon.

Top Right: Color Vibration, Top Left: After Image

Bottom Right: Color Environment, Bottom Left: Transparencies

1st Year: Newsprint Rendering

Instructions:

Choose an actual newspaper clipping to recreate on newsprint.  Copy the actual newspaper clipping with using only ink, color pencil, and pastel.

Left: Newspaper Article, Right: Recreation

Recreation up close

1st Year: Two Point Perspective

Instructions:

Compose a shape with a visible interior environment, then draw it in two point perspective format showing color, texture, shade, and shadow.

Glass object in the floor showing imperfections and reflectivity

1st Year: One Point Perspective

Instructions:
Compose an environment inside of a box, and then draw the environment in one point perspective showing details, textures, shapes.

Tile floor, shape leaning on a mirrored surface reflecting the shape and the back of the box

Shade and Shadow

1st Year: Axonometric Drawings

Instructions:
Compose an object using simple forms with internal spaces and cavities,
then draw the shape in Axonometric format showing shade and shadow,
provide sections of the shape exposing the interior of the shape.

1st Year: Orthographics

Instructions:
Create a complex shape by twisting and morphing simple shapes into one shape. Provide orthographic drawings in ink to accurately depict the nature of the shape created.

1st Year: Pepper Project

Instructions:
Pick an ugly pepper and render it in orthographic format using only a pencil.