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Periodic Table of Elements: A Collaborative Installation

David Mazure — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:07:59 +0000

I would like to introduce you to a project that has been in the works for quite some time. Last year I proposed over 14 different ideas for artwork installations in the new Hoeffner Science and Technology Center to the administration at East Stroudsburg University. The first of these installations is based upon the Periodic Table of Elements (see below for details). It has been a long process of approvals and revisions but it looks like this first installation (hopefully of many) is going to move forward rapidly — with hopes of it being completed by the end of the spring semester.

Normally, each semester, in my Communication Graphics class I have my students work on an introductory typography project called the Letterform/Counterform Project. This project’s goal is to take two different letterforms and combine them in such a way as to accentuate/highlight certain interesting and/or aesthetically pleasing elements of these letterforms while also considering the overall composition in a rectangular format. This semester my Communication Graphics students will be doing this project, but instead of choosing arbitrary letterforms, they will each be given 5 or 6 of the elements on the periodic table of elements to use. When completed, they will be printed, and displayed in frames in the hallway of the 2nd floor of the Hoeffner Science and Technology Center, directly opposite of the Chemistry Analytics labs. The frames will be arranged in the same order and configuration as the periodic table of elements, as pictured below. This is the first step in (hopefully) a few more collaborations between the science and art departments.

The location:

Innovations

David Mazure — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:07:00 +0000

Of all of the juried shows that I have had my artwork shown in these past few years, I am most excited about this show: ‘Innovations’ at the Dowd Gallery of SUNY Cortland in Cortland, NY (the show runs from January 18th – March 2nd, 2012). The work accepted in this show “represents innovations in concept, subject or media use” — which is one of my main objectives in creating any piece of art. Both of the pieces I submitted were accepted to the exhibition [pictured below] and I will be venturing up to SUNY Cortland’s Dowd Gallery to present an Artist Talk/Lecture and/or a Workshop for the students at SUNY Cortland sometime in the first week or two of February 2012. Please read the written statement that I submitted for ‘Innovations’ here.

The first work that has been accepted to ‘Innovations’ is a digital print intervention titled: Mapping the Probability of Archetypical Configurations of Elementary Particles in Thought-Space and will appear in Bowers Hall (the science building) on the campus of SUNY Cortland.

In case you are interested in some of the jargon on this poster, here are some details:

The other piece that was accepted is Transmeanderation Helix (Parts 1, 2 & 3) and will be installed in the Dowd Gallery. Here is Transmeanderation Helix as it appeared at the William King Museum in 2010:

Amputees [War]

David Mazure — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:07:44 +0000

Logopond

David Mazure — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:07:45 +0000

I have just recently become a member of Logopond. In the design courses I teach I have always recommended Logopond to my students to use as reference and/or inspiration. And, since I’ve designed a few logos in my day, I figured I would join the online logo community. You can check out my logo showcase here (or just click on the image below).

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David Mazure — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:07:22 +0000

Zodiac (Unused)

David Mazure — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:07:06 +0000

This may be the last of my ‘digging-into-the-past-for-old-artwork’ posts. This one is titled Zodiac. I vividly remember spending hours upon hours on this project. It was intended to be printed digitally as an inkjet print and then installed as one long diagram/drawing (as if you connected the four pieces below into one long strip). It is a shame that I never did anything with this, especially considering how much time and energy I expended upon it.

The Role of the Dominator in the Evolutionary Process

David Mazure — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:07:29 +0000

Here’s another image from the archives. This was probably one of my first large drawings strongly influenced by quantum mechanics and string theory (thanks to Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos) that I did in my first year of graduate school. It was also the first drawing in which I combined graphite, ink, marker and digital elements. It touches upon many of the themes and concepts that I have been expanding upon ever since, albeit in a much more wordy fashion.

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David Mazure — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:07:02 +0000

Moil, 2010

Angelus

David Mazure — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:07:02 +0000

Here’s a screenprint that I made in 2009 at ETSU under the guidance of Master Printer & Professor Ralph Slatton (read an article on his recent retrospective here). The image below is the vector (digital) art for the actual screenprint that did not come out as well as I had planned. The registration on the screenprint was a little off, that is why I’m showing you the pure, untainted vector art in its stead. Surprisingly, I don’t think I ever gave it a title. If I remember correctly, I believe the inspiration for this screenprint came from a famous Salvador Dali painting, Angelus (also known as Millet’s Architectonic Angelus) from 1933, which I have had an affinity for (and used as inspiration) since my undergraduate days. I enjoy the simple relationship of forms. Dali’s inspiration for this painting (which is evident by its title) is Jean-Francois Millet’s Angelus from 1859 (both of which are pictured below).

Salvador Dali, Angelus, 1933

Jean-Francois Millet, Angelus, 1859

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David Mazure — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:32:20 +0000