Cecily Sophia Culver_ fine artist

Take it With You 

Cast Concrete, Fabric, Found Objects

Dimensions Variable

December 2012

Installation view at Slipstream, a department-wide Arizona State University sculpture exhibition at the Icehouse of Phoenix, Arizona. 

Take it With You

Cast Concrete, Fabric, Found Objects 

Recent works installed at the Night Gallery in Tempe Marketplace, Tempe AZ as part of A Plagued Structure, a group show of the current graduate sculpture students at Arizona State University. 

I see these works as a continuation as well as a departure from the domestic studies I have been doing, creating tangible forms in response to the bombardment of images filtering though the media after the barrage of extreme weather, displaced people and the housing crisis currently affecting people in America and around the world. 

Late Winter/early spring 2012

Imposing a rigid structure on a landscape. 

After moving across the country to the desert, this landscape and weather seems so distant. Almost like another planet. 

These are the remaining intaglio prints from my recent BFA thesis exhibition. These prints are part of a new body of work i have been creating for several months now in a variety of media, exploring the language and the symbolic form of a house or “home.” 

A huge “thank you” to those that purchased a print during the exhibition. These remaining prints are available for purchase for $65.

They are non toxic intaglio prints,they were a part of two separate varied editions, utilizing many different methods such as construction and wrinkle intaglio type, chine colle and a la poupee inking techniques.

11 “x 30.5”, unframed. Willing to ship. 

Please contact me if you are interested at cecilyculver@yahoo.com 

Installation view of tempo reality, video projection, bed sheets, pillow, window shade, February 2012 

The result of my experimentation with video, that was intended to capture the temporality of life, felt very dream-like and surreal. I decided to push this association with recreating my bedroom, void of color, upon which the video could be projected. 

I played around with the way in which the video should be projected: directly over the bed, or across the corner recreating the bedroom space more fully, and the light hitting the various textures of the included objects; I felt the latter was more successful.  

tempo reality, video, February 2012 

I recreated the video temporality (below) and have been experimenting with projecting it as an installation piece. 

Temporality, video, february 2012 

Tides and time, documentation of video projection onto 11 cast cement metronome sculptures, approx. 9’x7’, january 2012 

Pattern home,  dress pattern, gold leaf, bees wax, copper sheet, brass tacks, pine, 2.5”x4.6”x3.4”,

I am excited about the recent opportunity to show this piece in the “Where Do We Go from Here?(The Shape of Things to Come)” exhibition at the Wiseman Galley at Rogue Community College, Grants Pass, OR. An exhibition of small works relating to the history of women.  

I re created the video I intend to project over my cement metronome sculptures. I believe this video is a bit more successful with smoother transitions. I am very excited for the next step, experimenting with the wall sized projection and seeing how the video interacts with the overlapping image of the sculptures and the waves.