Instructor: Hiroyuki Hamada
Monday - Friday
July 21 - 25
9am - 12pm
5 sessions

Throughout this 3D Sculpture workshop, we will explore the concept of ‘Making the Invisible Visible’. This is a studio class with brief lectures. Through constructing processes with readily available materials, the participants attempt to materialize visual experiences which are meaningful in visceral ways. The aim goes beyond techniques to express visual characteristics, recognizable narratives or symbols.  The directions of the making process will be guided by the material reality we observe during the process.  

The focus of the workshop is on perceiving how an initial idea gains life of its own in assembling materials. Participants are asked to bring their own materials and tools in building small sculpture pieces.  Additional materials are also available at the workshop.  We discuss how to start, what is involved in the making process, and how to finish the piece.   

Hiroyuki Hamada’s studio practice includes sculpture, painting, and Piezography prints; his explorations in search of sharing essential qualities of human experience have developed moving amongst these mediums. Exhibition highlights include shows at Gana Art Bowang, The Arts Center at Duck Creek, Parrish Art Museum Road Show,‘T’ Space, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, and O.K. Harris Works of Art, where he began his solo exhibition career with wall hanging sculptures.  

Hamada holds an MFA from the University of Maryland and has taught sculpture at Penland School of Craft as well as serving as a Visiting Artist at the Vermont Studio Center.  He has been the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and twice received New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in sculpture. He was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Mid-Career Residency at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, a Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. 

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