12.12.2011

CNC


This piece in the Beyond Vernacular series explores the use of CNC routing to create the lace doily cut out of Acrylic. I am most interested in using technology, like CNC driven cutting tools, when it allows me to do something unexpected. The software driven router has some obvious advantages in this application in that the file can replicate an accurate toolpath to create the inaccurate geometry found in the crocheted pattern of the lace. The images show the router in action and the piece still "tabbed" in the material before it was removed cleaned up a bit and sanded. The doily is about 27" in diameter.








Perpetual Present : 2011 MECA Faculty Selects Exhibition

New works by Cory Robinson and Matt Hutton for the 2011 Maine College of Art Faculty Selects Exhibition on display through the month of December in Portland, Maine. 

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Beyond Vernacular

These images are some in progress shots of a body of work I recently completed titled 
Beyond Vernacular . This series set out to explore the language of simple materials and simple form, using know furniture design languages and up-cycled barn siding for most of the new works. The series also uses the lace runner or doily as a point of departure and narrative element in the work. The series of six new pieces and two older works from 2009 are currently on display at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine through January 2012. More shots of the works in the gallery and shots of collaborator Matt Hutton's wall-hung works are forthcoming.


 Steel tops, lace runner hardened with epoxy, walnut legs and aprons
 Lace, epoxy, steel, prime and paint
 Recycled barnwood headboard in progress

7.19.2011


Research for an upcoming collaborative exhibition I am in with my friend and fellow designer/ maker Matt Hutton in Nov. We are working on a series of work called "Beyond Vernacular". The work is inspired by Midwest icons of daily ritual and bucolic lifestyle and the re contextualizing of these influences into design and art objects.



Historic Round Barn

This is a historic image of a round barn in Tipton County Indiana that was the sight of a nearly  epic high school fight that gathered the interest of at least half of the Junior class and nearly all of the Senior Class from Tipton High School '95. Just saying. Nearly epic, because it didn't happen. Pre-Columbine violence. Great old barn on dump road. It is not survived by any living relatives.

Barnwood Tables

Barns have a warm place in our psyche. It is not without acknowledging this that I have been designing these tables in hopes of producing a small series of furniture forms that build on the warmth and history of these materials as the primary driver. Clean contemporary forms are the second concern of these pieces, but equally important. The wood is salvaged, has defects bug and nail holes, and is perfect for that reason.




Cowboy Stuff

That is a competitive gaming horseshoe hanging upside down over that door, not a lucky horseshoe in the traditional sense. Who am I to judge???