Avery Lucas Arts

Teaser video for the upcoming MFA exhibition at UMass Dartmouth!

Tender

Hand formed and fabricated from a single piece of copper

2011

My last piece from last semester

Photo Credit: Nathan Gurvitch

Envelope

Hand formed and fabricated copper

2012

Envelope

Hand fabricated and formed copper, made from a single sheet

2012

alloysymposium:

This April, you’re invited to the intercollegiate symposium Alloy. Speakers and workshops at this event will explore boundaries and intersections of method and technique through the perspectives of maker, fabricator, artist, craftsman and metalsmith. Metalsmithing is more than a profession, more…

Forming the fingers into a curl is almost completed!

Now to finalize display, finish, patina, and then make something else!

ALWAYS BE KNOLLING

adopted studio practice of organization from artist Tom Sachs

Today my hands are free!

Annealing, chasing, forming are all in progress…

Enveloped is coming right along, slowly but surly despite being exhausted physically by making it.

I decided to etch finger prints and contour lines into this piece before chasing it. I used a soft ground asphaltum (the black tar stuff) as a resist and spent several days scoring out the lines on the hands before giving the whole big thing a ferric chloride bath!

After several rounds of burning off the asphaltum, I uncovered a successful etch. Now it’s time to hammer again!

This is my next major piece, titled Envelope.

It is my larges piece to date, measuring 28 x 32 inches.

Here are some in process shots! Please Enjoy and stayed tuned for more updates.