Modular+Sculpture



Alexander Calder

He was born in July 22, 1898 in Lawnton Pennsylvania. He grew up on a ranch in Oracle Arizona. He came from a family of artists. His mother was a painter and his father was a sculpture. He published his first book in 1925 it called Animal sketches. In 1926 he moved to Pairs and took class at Academie De La Grande Chaumier. Best known kinetic sculpture. In 1927 Calder’s was recognized for his first significant miniature circus with its animated wire performance at Paris Salon des Humoristes. In 1931 Calder was married to Louisa James he had met her on a voyage in New York City at the same time his illustrated an edition of Aesop’s Fables.

by Dane'ca Romick

Charles and Ray Eames


 * Charles Ormond Eames, Jr** was born in July 21, 1907 in St. Louis Missouri. Charles was born the nephew of St. Louis architect William S. Eames. By the time he was 14 years old, while attending high school, Charles worked at the Laclede Steel company as a part-time laborer, where he learned about engineering, drawing, and architecture. Charles studied architechture at Washington University where he met his first wife Catherine Woermann, and they had a daughter together. Charles was greatly influenced by the Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen.

Ray Eames died in Los Angeles in 1988, ten years to the day after Charles.
 * Ray-Bernice Alexandra Kaiser Eames** was an American artist, designer, and filmmaker who was born December 15, 1912 in Sacramento California. She and her husband Charles are responsible for many classic, iconic designs of the 20th century. In 1933 she moved to New York, where she studied abstract painting with Hans Hofman. In September 1940 she began studies at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, where she met Charles Eames. Settling in Los Angeles California Charles and Ray Eames would lead an outstanding career in design and architecture.



by Rich Estrada

Dillon Adams Martin Puryear was born in Washington DC, and he spent his youth studying practical crafts, learning how to build guitars and furniture. He received a B.A. from The Catholic University of America in 1963 and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone from 1964 to 1966. In the late 1960s, he studied printmaking in Sweden and assisted a master cabinet-maker. He entered the Yale University graduate sculpture program in 1968. His first solo exhibition was held in the late 1970s at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. In the 1980s he participated in two Whitney Biennials and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1989. In 2003, he served on the Jury for the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition. In November 2008, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented a 30-year survey of Puryear's work in 2007. The presentation "includes a special installation in the Haas Atrium including Ladder for Booker T. Washington 1996, made from a 36-foot-long split sapling, and Ad Astra 2007, a 63-foot-tall work that rises to the museum's fifth-floor bridge. The Haas Atrium work can be viewed without purchasing a museum admission ticket.

McKenzie Tyson

Martin Waugh McKenzie Tyson

Martin Waugh is one that combines art and science together to make what he calls water sculptures (or liquid sculpture). Water has clamed Martin’s soul, smoothed his spirit and helps heal the wounded. Martin has free-flowing photos that are from rhythmic rolling oceans all the way down to some of the smallest things like drops of water falling into a lake or river. All by imagination. Martin is one that makes it possible to capture the smooth and effortless curves of the liquid. With a childlike sense of fun and whimsy his interpretations of his work often reveal much about him and his views of art. Martin likes his images to show metaphors for like and that are interesting to the eye even though they are thought to be provoking in a way. Martin also likes to create panorama out of the color, he varies the size, speed and the positions of the drops along with the color and viscosity of it. Martin has received his B.S. degree in Physics from Lewis and Clark College in Oregon. He is a man from Portland where he enjoys the gorgeous white water rivers the region has to offer.

These pictures are a little distorted. This website [] gave me a lot of information and was very useful. It explained both about the sculpture and how it is done also. It also gave many picture examples that show different techniques.