Japanese Beetles Eating a Yellow Chair

Japanese Beetles Eating a Yellow Chair

Ideas come to me in the form of a chair. Usually it starts as a small drawing in a journal and then a large pastel. Drawings are important to my process. On paper I can work out color combinations while getting a general feel for the piece I want to build. The 3D forms are approached in much the way as my drawings. The drawing starts out with a raw piece of paper and the 3D forms start out with raw pieces of pine. I choose to build my forms from the ground up and I do not want to use an already existing manufactured chair, I want to control the form. Edges and surfaces and how they can be cut through, broken down and manipulated into many different and new surfaces is what I'm after. Layers of color and how they work off of each other, combined with the different surfaces and how it directs the eye is important to me.

Jensen, Jeff

University of Iowa. School of Art and Art History

2006-09-28

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mixed media

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Assemblages (Sculpture); Assemblage (Sculpture technique); Mixed media

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