Assemblage+Sculpture



Emory Blagdon Healing machine

Patrick Rowan is a assemblage artist who was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on January 7, 1937. He recived his degree in Building Construction and M.S. from the University of Wisconsin, he became a sculptor at the University of Flordia, and later becoming Associate Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 1971 and Professor in 1994.Then he started making paint, canvas, and wood assemblages and here is a assemblage of his spirit boat. That he made in 1978 with wood, canvas, paint, brass bells, and some string.


 * // ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG //**
 * Robert Rauschenberg was born October 22, 1925 in Port Arthur, Texas. As an adult Robert changed his name from Milton Ernst Rauschenberg to Robert Rauschenberg. In 1947 Robert was in the U.S. Marines and this is when Robert discovered his like for drawing. After Robert left the Marines he studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Academie Julian in Paris. Robert married painter Susan Weil in 1950. They had one child together, Christopher was born July 16, 1951. Robert’s marriage to Susan ended in 1953. Robert is well known for his white paintings, black paintings and red paintings. Robert is also known for combines. To create his assemblage he used objects he found wile living in New York City. Robert found a love for collecting trash and making it into art. Robert life ended on May 12, 2008 because of heart failure.

Example of combines art.

Example of Assemblage art. Done by Tasha Mac Kay



Patrick Johnson (1953-Present)Born in Akron, Ohio but now lives in Vermont today. Patrick is fifty six years of age, he is known for abstract figurative sculptures. Patrick has a son who is also an artist of somekind i do not know. Patrick johnson no longer sculptes statues cause he has had to deal with two hart attacks in the last year. He is now in Windsor county hospital last known on 3/28/09** [] [] By Matthew McNally



Mark Jenkins. Who is this sculptor? Well in Washington D.C. is known also as a menace as well as a sculptor. Why is he known as a menace? His realistic tape sculptures cause a scare to locals. Mark Jenkins makes his sculptures out of clear packaging tape and forms it into objects such as the “tape men”, babies, animals, and household objects. These sculptures are positioned all over the city in random public places, and are not authorized to be there. Does this stop Jenkins? No, he believes that his sculptures are showing the public the problems we have. Mark Jenkins’ work is not only found in Washington or on the streets, but they are also in foreign countries such as Korea and also in books located in Berlin. He has become the "first celebrity 3D street artist," says Marc Schiller, who runs the Wooster Collective, the online hub ( [] ) that showcases digital images of urban installations. This is the most bizarre yet most creative sculpting that I have heard about.
 * Kelsey Johnson

Jesse howard ** Nevelson is known for her abstract expressionist “crates” grouped together to form a new creation. She used found objects or everyday discarded things in her [|“assemblages”] or assemblies, one of which was three stories high: ”When you put together things that other people have thrown out, you’re really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created." Louise married Charles Nevelson after she graduated from high school in 1918, and together they had a child named Myron Nevelson. Louise and Charles later separated in 1931. [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Nevel] [|gypsyporvida.blogspot.com] [|son] www.askart.com

Anna Glenn What's an assemblage sculpture? -An assemblage is a three-dimensional artistic composition made of miscellaneous objects or found materials.

-John Baldessari- John Baldessari was born in National City, California on June 16, 1931. He studied at San Diego State College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1953, and a Master of Arts in 1957. He married Carol Wikom in 1962, and they had three children. He was an instructor at the Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, San Diego city schools, San Diego State College, La Jolla Museum of Art and Southwestern College; Assistant Professor of Art at University of California at San Diego and Professor at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, Visiting instructor at Hunter College, New York. He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1973, 1974 and 1975. He lives and works in Santa Monica, California. John is 6 foot-7 inches tall, and his hair and beard are snow-white. Kind of an unusual artist. Struggling in 1970, he felt painting to be bland, and burned all of his preveious work. He then did some great work with allusions and modern art. Now he's very into changing photos, expecially black and white ones. He likes to take cut outs of color and put them into his pictures. Here are some examples.. By Anna Glenn

 by Zoe Yohn
 * Joseph Cornell**



Joseph Cornell was born in December of 1903, to a New York family with four children. When his father died, he and his family moved to Queens. Cornell studied at Phillips Academy in Andover, but, unfortunately never graduated. Cornell is known for his boxed assemblages, boxes of found items. He was inspired by surrealists, and didn't use "junk" in his boxes, but things he though that might have once been beautiful, things from old bookstores or thrift shops in New York. But Cornell was not just an assemblage sculptor. He was also a film maker, and dabbled in collages. Much of Cornell's work is inspired by Christian themes and beliefs, according to Sandra Leonard Starr, art historian.

In life, he was a bashful type, almost reclusive and rarely left the state of New York. He never married, but spent the majority of his time caring for his younger brother Robert, who was diagnosed with cerebral paulsy. Cornell died in December of 1972 heart failure.



Untitled (Soap Bubble Set)



Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery

Collin Thomas Harvey






 * David Stewart about 70 years old is an outstanding artist. David used to be a plumber and did not have any interest in art. He was given janitorial duties in the Art Department at Hastings College, in Hastings Nebraska. He was encouraged by art faculty pursue his newly found talent when he completed an art assignment on a chalkboard at the college. Stewart enrolled in art classes at Hastings with his studies centering around drawing, painting and printmaking. His** **efforts into 3D assemblages were largely self-taught. Stewart admits to being strongly influenced by the masters of assemblage, Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp. David Stewart is still alive.

Harlee Hotes** Frank Gehry was Born on February 28, 1929 in Toronto, Canada. He studied architecture at the University of Southern California from 1949-1951.Afterwards he started his own company, Frank O. Gehry & Associates, in 1962. He was inspired to make the standing glass fish sculpture by history of cooking fish with his grandma. It was made of wood, glass, steel, silicone, plexiglass, and rubber.

**//Richard Buckminster Fuller//** Born July 12, 1895, Milton, Mass., U.S. died July 1, 1983, Los Angeles U.S. engineer and architect who developed the geodesic dome, the only large dome that can be set directly on the ground as a complete structure, and the only practical kind of building that has no limiting dimensions (//i.e.//, beyond which the structural strength must be insufficient). Among the most noteworthy geodesic domes is the United States pavilion for Expo 67 in Montreal. Also a poet and a philosopher, he was noted for unorthodox ideas on global issues.

In 1927, in the course of the development of his comprehensive strategy, he invented and demonstrated a factory-assembled, air-deliverable house, later called the Dymaxion house, which had its own utilities. He designed in 1928, and manufactured in 1933, the first prototype of his three-wheeled omnidirectional vehicle, the Dymaxion car. This automobile, the first streamlined car, could cross open fields like a jeep, accelerate to 120 miles (190 km) per hour, make a 180° turn in its own length, carry 12 passengers, and average 28 miles per gallon (12 km per litre) of gasoline. In 1943, at the request of the industrialist Henry Kaiser, Fuller developed a new version of the Dymaxion car that was planned to be powered by three separate air-cooled engines, each coupled to its own wheel by a variable fluid drive. The projected 1943 Dymaxion, like its predecessor, was never commercially produced.

Brenan Roach

Kari Huhtamo

DILLON ADAMS

Martin Puryear was born in [|Washington, D.C.], 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 1960, 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, made from a 36-foot-long split sapling, and Ad Astra, 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.

Kari Huhtamo By: Kaitlyn Wells

Kari Huhtamo lives and does most of his work in Finland. Born in Rovaniemi and works in Helsinki, Finland. Kari uses geometrical forms, he was inspired to use that form from the geometry of nature. Kari makes sculptures in coated steel, stainless steel, bronze and some other materials. The sculptor makes virtual sculpture, relief, mobiles, and wall hangings. He sometimes makes free standings works just as well as sculptors the public is able to see. All public sculptors are site specific; he uses the environment as an overall pertaining to the scale, color, and the exact location or the sculptor.

These are some examples of his steel sculptors.

Alex Balardran Steve Breach