3D – Printing Sculptures Produced Through Grant from the Ohio Arts Council at Case Western Reserve University Think[box]

Thanks to the Ohio Arts Council & Thinkbox Inovation Center at Case Western Reserve University for their support in making possible my mixed media sculptures “Model Citizens”. The Ohio Arts Council provided funding through a grant and Thinkbox provided their facilities, equipment and support to help make them a reality.

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The following is an excerpt from article “Second Life” by Josh Usmani in Cleveland Scene Magazine, December 31, 2014, about exhibition “Bits In Pieces” at Maria Neil Art Project in the Waterloo Arts District in Cleveland:

Bits in Pieces includes Reach’s latest large-scale, geometric digital prints, smaller “whimsies” (as Reach refers to them) and new 3-D printed mixed media sculptures, called Model Citizens. “I wanted to explore ways of making sculpture digitally,” says Reach. “I’ve been enjoying the process of working with 3D printing. I’m mixing other digital fabrication technology into them; parts in wood are cut on a CNC Router that is basically a cutting robot, and the stainless steel base has its pattern laser cut on a laser cutter, another cutting robot.

“In my quest to embrace technology to have a voice, I am just beginning to embark to explore this technology in my art,” he continues. “As an architect, three-dimensional form is always in the background. Making sculptures would be too physically demanding. But when I first learned of 3-D printing it occurred to me that here was a medium that I could produce sculpture without the physicality involved, thus giving me a new avenue of creative expression.”

 

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artwork “Seven Model Citizens” (digital print on canvas) was inspiration for 3D Model Citizens

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On display at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

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Concept Sketches

 

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Screenshot of Autodesk Inventor 3D Solid Modeling Software
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3D rendering of virtual model
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3D rendering of virtual model
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3D rendering of virtual model
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3D rendering of virtual model
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CAD File for Stainless Steel Laser Cut Plate
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3d Printers at Thinkbox
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Shopbot CNC Router at Thinkbox cutting maple parts
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Model Citizens being assembled

Bits & Pieces at Maria Neil Art Project

Bits & Pieces Exhibition - Maria Neil Art Project

click here to see all works in show on Maria Neil Art Project page


Bits & Pieces Exhibition - Maria Neil Art Project

Bits & Pieces Exhibition - Maria Neil Art Project

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Bits & Pieces Exhibition - Maria Neil Art Project

 

Bits & Pieces Exhibition - Maria Neil Art Project

Bits & Pieces Exhibition - Maria Neil Art Project

Bits & Pieces Exhibition - Maria Neil Art Project

Bits & Pieces Exhibition - Maria Neil Art Project

Excerpt from Article “Second Life” by Josh Usmani, Cleveland Scene Magazine:

Bits in Pieces includes Reach’s latest large-scale, geometric digital prints, smaller “whimsies” (as Reach refers to them) and new 3-D printed mixed media sculptures, called Model Citizens. “I wanted to explore ways of making sculpture digitally,” says Reach. “I’ve been enjoying the process of working with 3D printing. I’m mixing other digital fabrication technology into them; parts in wood are cut on a CNC Router that is basically a cutting robot, and the stainless steel base has its pattern laser cut on a laser cutter, another cutting robot.

“In my quest to embrace technology to have a voice, I am just beginning to embark to explore this technology in my art,” he continues. “As an architect, three-dimensional form is always in the background. Making sculptures would be too physically demanding. But when I first learned of 3-D printing it occurred to me that here was a medium that I could produce sculpture without the physicality involved, thus giving me a new avenue of creative expression.”

 ClevelandScene_Bits&Pieces-Article_12-31-2014_xArticle in Cleveland Scene Magazine – click here to read article online