POSTPONED DIGITAL

STONE PROJECTS

Due to COVID-19, the 2020 Digital Stone Project in Northern Italy was cancelled. Royden Mills, along with 25 other artists had been planning to travel to Italy in order to hand refine sculptures that had been digitally milled from marble by a machine. Whilst both human and machine now wait on standby until next year’s opportunity to dance with one another, you are invited to inspect virtual models - zoom in and out of them and spin them around.

Natural Tenuous Fortitude 2020-21 This is a low resolution file of a Sculpture that I will realize at the Digital Stone Project in Italy in 2021 The digitally scanned natural Stone balancing precariously at the top is supported by all manner of Scanned or digitally human made forms. What human will is required to be in support of Nature in this era?

The development of Fukushima Memorial stemmed from Wasserboehr’s interest in the history, culture, and pageantry of the Samurai period in Japan. Wasserboehr admires the artistry found in battle armor, helmets, facemasks, and Kura saddles.She was particularly fascinated by the saddles; their underlying geometry, references to the human body, and that the armatures of these saddles were constructed in wood.

Ring Of Life by Gong Hongbo - 3D model by Marilene (@marilene) [f687d7c]

metbefore - 3D model by spbwill (@spbwill) [b42faef]

Royden Mills

Royden Mills seeks to explore the "psychological charge" of feeling present. His work allows the audience to transition between their sensed limits of the physical body through implicating the body in the ethereal state of what might be valuable beyond those  two over simplified perceived limits. His work has been extensively exhibited internationally, and ranges between large-scale commissions, installations, and collaborative performances.  Recently he has made work in India, Italy and he has enjoyed many collaborations with world renown Artists such a Sean Caulfield, Blair Brennan, Isabelle Van Grimde, Brian Webb, Walter Jule and Catherine Burgess.

Royden Mills is a sculptor who has taught as a contract Academic at the University of Alberta over more than 30 years. His first professional studio was in Hokkaido Japan and he now works out a rural studio not far from Edmonton.  His work has lead him to make work that is now in Poland, USA, Chile, Japan, and several places in Canada.  He has won many national and regional awards, and is featured in many public and private collections Including Grounds For Sculpture south of NYC, Robert Webb Sculpture Garden in Dalton Georgia, and Shikaoi Chomin Hall in Japan.  He is most proud of the work that has come to be in towns and cities where he grew up such as Camrose, Red Deer and Edmonton, Alberta. 

Also by Royden Mills for Dyscorpia 2.1 is A Prayer, a video meditation of a sculpture he created for the cancelled Dyscorpia POP UP exhibition.

Pat Wasserboehr

Pat Wasserboehr earned her BFA and MFA degrees in sculpture from the School of Visual Arts at Boston University. She currently teaches sculpture and drawing in the School of Art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and served as Department Head from 1998-2010. Pat’s sculpture has been represented in art museums, centers, and galleries throughout the United States and internationally in China, France, Italy, Germany, and Spain. She was an artist- in-residence with the University of Massachusetts Summer Abroad Program in LaNapoule, France, and in Cortona, Italy, with the University of Georgia’s summer program. During the summers of 2014, and 2017- 2019, she participated in the Digital Stone Project in Gramolazzo, Italy. In August of 2017, she was a participant in Salem2Salem, an international art residency at Salem Art Works, New York. In July of 2019, she was an artist-in-residence at the Dietz Atelier in Eberdingen, Germany. Her sculpture projects and residencies have been partially or fully funded by numerous grants from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the Central Piedmont Regional Artists Hub Program. These include The International Kohler Travel Award, the Research and Creative Activities Dean’s Initiative Awards (UNCG, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015), The Faculty First Summer Excellence Award (UNCG, 2019), The Regional Artist Grant (ArtsGreensboro, 2018, 2015).

Sandford Mirling

Mirling is the co-founder of the non-profit art space, Collar Works, in Troy, NY and a founding board member of the Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency in Granville, NY. He has taught at several art programs across the US including; The University at Albany, NY, Maine College of Art, ME and Middlebury College in Vermont. International exhibitions of Mirling’s range from solo exhibitions at Gridspace, NYC and Yeah Maybe, MN to group shows at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, LA, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, TX to most recently at Castiglione di Garfagnana, Tuscany, Italy. Public works include, Big Rock Sculpture Park, AR, Bethesda Rehabilitation Hospital, MN, Cary Hill Sculpture Park, NY, and the Albany International Airport, NY.

Yangen Zhang

Yangen Zhang graduated from the Arts Department of the Chinese people's Liberation Army Institute of art, is now a member of the Guangxi Arts Institute, Professor, Master graduate student tutor, Chinese Artists Association. His sculptures are collected and permanently displayed in important places in many countries in five continents, such as France, Belgium, Holland, Australia, the United States and Mauritania, as well as many cities in China. He has held exhibitions in China, the United States, Australia, France and Belgium.

Gong Hongbo

Gong Hongbo was born in 1994, Jiangxi, China. He graduated from the College of Guangxi Arts Institute and is now a postgraduate student of Professor Zhang Yangen.