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Axioms of Gesture

David Mazure — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:07:30 +0000

For those of you heading to New Mexico in the upcoming month — come check out my lenticular print drop-ceiling installation, Altruism w/-1/2 Spin at the Runnels Gallery at Eastern New Mexico University for the Axioms of Gesture juried exhibition. Axioms of Gesture is ‘a digital show devoted to the spirit of human movement. It will explore the artistic interpretation of human movement and how people move through time and space.’ Axioms of Gesture runs from the 3rd through the 29th of September. Pictured below is an image of Altruism w/-1/2 Spin as it appeared in my thesis exhibition Schema in 2009:

RSTT

David — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:07:38 +0000

RSTT (video) from Cohabitants.
Special thanks to Adam Ansorge for all of his help putting this video together and to the Mazure family for lending out their HDTV for an extended period of time!

Feero Molaf Duul (Part 3)

David Mazure — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:12:47 +0000

This is the final part of the Feero Molaf Duul installation. It is comprised of five individually framed pieces. The three large pieces are titled Altruism w/-1/2 Spin (24″ x 24″ graphite drawings) and the two small pieces are each a Portrait of an Elementary Particle (approx. 10″ x 10″ lenticular prints with rubylith overlay).

Here is a link to a past installation that I created using multiple lenticular prints of Portraits of Elementary Particles. It includes a video that illustrates how a lenticular print is viewed (its not the best video in the world, but hopefully you can get the idea).

Some close-up shots (from two different angles) of the lenticular print Portrait of an Elementary Particle (without rubylith overlay):

Feero Molaf Duul (Part 2)

David Mazure — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:17:28 +0000

This part of Feero Molaf Duul consists of a long strip of grey paint extending to the ceiling with two white vinyl prints (thanks Logan!) adhered to it. Other than that, I don’t have much to say about this portion of the installation. I am much more interested in hearing what you have to say! Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

Feero Molaf Duul (Part 1)

David Mazure — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:07:17 +0000

Now we move on to the large wall painting/digital print/graphite drawing/lenticular print/vinyl print installation titled Feero Molaf Duul (the entire piece is shown in the first image below). The first part I’m going to talk about is the framed digital print portion of the overall installation, although technically untitled, I will be calling Microscopic Inspection (for reference purposes). As with every piece in the exhibit (besides Rosetta and RSTT) this entire installation is based upon my own observational figure drawings. Most of this piece is based off of my drawings of two close friends, TJ & Jessica (thanks guys!). Microscopic Inspection represents the deepest investigation and the furthest abstraction from my original drawings that appear in this show. It was all hand-drawn in Adobe Illustrator (except for the text, of course) — yes, hand-drawn! — no fancy computer 3-D shortcuts for me!

Interesting side note: After I had printed this piece out, framed it, and hung it, I noticed that one small, black shape was missing — it was just a blank white space! The reason for this is because I ‘hid’ (Illustrator users will know what I’m talking about – Command/3) the shape in question before I printed and didn’t ’show’ it when I actually printed. This is what most people call a ‘happy accident’ because the solution I devised to rectify the situation (creating and applying a vinyl print directly to the digital print) is much stronger and adds another intriguing dimension to the print (the detail of this is shown in the second-to-last image of this post).

The text in the final image below directly correlates to the vinyl word installation Rosetta which will be discussed at length in a future post.

For your viewing pleasure I have included pictures of the actual print and some of the digital file below.

I’m sure there are going to be some questions regarding this piece, so, please, ask away!

Shot from Infantree

David Mazure — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:44:15 +0000

Here’s a nice shot from the Organism show at the Infantree Gallery two months ago:

Pictures from Organism

David Mazure — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:37:18 +0000

Thanks to Timothy Hoover at the Infantree Gallery for taking some quality pictures of my show last month! Here are a few of them:

Halo-Mane of Auric Potentate (from 2005)

David Mazure — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:12:17 +0000

Halo-Mane of Auric Potentate • Marker/Ink/Color Pencil/Digital • 2005

Thought-Organs Hope & Fear

David Mazure — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:30:32 +0000

Here are two graphite/digital drawings I did in 2008. They are meant to be displayed on a wall in a ‘T’ formation:

Thought-Organ Fear • Graphite/Inkjet Print • 15″ x 24″ • 2008

Thought-Organ Hope • Graphite/Inkjet Print • 24″ x 15″ • 2008

Thought-Organ Fear & Hope DETAILS

Macrocosm

David Mazure — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:01:09 +0000

This is the third and final part to the Cosm installation. It is a digital projection of a looping animated sequence that I created (with the help of Adam Ansorge – thanks!) in Adobe After Effects. Throughout the half-hour, the camera zooms in until the screen is completely filled with red and the zooms back out in a never-ending loop. The entire screen stays solid red for about 12 minutes in each half-hour loop. The quality of the pictures below aren’t of the greatest quality, but it is really difficult taking pictures of a digital projection in a somewhat darkened room. The video was projected from that white box in the foreground. I thought that since it was the only thing in the center of the room that it would be really obvious. But, as it turns out, it camouflaged really well, and most people did not even realize it was there!