Jereminjenko's Tree Logic

As interpreted by S. Tripodi

2016, Acrylic on wood, from the Yon Collection

Original: Natalie Jereminjenko, 1999
Mass MOCA, "raising questions about what the nature of natural is"

by D. Daley

2016, Beeswax and human hair, from the Novotny Collection

Original: 1992-1993, Beeswax and human hair, from the collection of Brenda R. Potter

by V. Chaban

2016, leather and wool. From the Wheeler Rauschenbach Collection.

Original: 

Lousie Bourgeois, 2003, blanket, towel and chenille fabric. Approximately 7" long, 4" high

This piece appeared in a collection of pieces called Oedipus. 

by M. Novotny

2016, Ink on Newsprint, from the Suzy Daley Collection

Original: 1981, Zurich, by Peter Fischli, and David Weiss, from Ordnung und Reinlichkeit [Order & Cleanliness], Softcover, Stapled binding, Sextodecimo, 14.7 x 10.6 cm (5.78" x 4.17")

by S. Tripodi

2016, Gouache and colored pencil on wood, 36" x 40", from the Novotny Collection

Original: 2014, ink gouache and colored pencil on paper, 60 5/6 x 41 1/4 inches.

Kordansky Gallery Exhibition 2015

by C. Rixford, S. Tripodi and T. Wheeler

2016, Ivory soap, from the Novotny Collection

Original: Jessine Hein, [date], [size], [media]

Soap Carving Context:

Clean Cuts: Procter & Gamble’s Depression‐Era Soap‐Carving Contests

"In the 1920s and 1930s, Procter & Gamble popularized the art of soap carving through a series of annual competitions, which explicitly promoted handicraft as a therapeutic alternative to the machine age. However, soap sculpture in fact offered a way to accommodate the changes associated with commercial modernization. A do-it-yourself hobby that relied on mass production, turned the household chore of shaving soap into an art form, and produced compact works of art that reflected the demands of factory production, soap sculpture is an example of ‘‘antimodern modernism’’—assimilating and aestheticizing the very processes of modernization it otherwise appeared to oppose."
 

"As a fourth-grader in the 1950s, Diane Harper and her class carved mission models out of Ivory soap. As a fourth-grade teacher in the 1970s, Harper had her class make their own soap missions. This is a demo model Harper carved for her students in the 1970s."

Mission Project

A CHALLENGE:

1. Carve David Bowie's teeth out of a bar of Ivory Soap. 

2. Carve one of the California Missions or...

3. Carve an elephant, you pick.