Painting, Expanded
Interpreting and growing a 2-dimensional composition in 3 dimensions.
AutoCAD, Rhino, Adobe Photoshop + Illustrator
This project involved taking Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park #54 and reinterpreting it in three dimensions as an imaginary wooden bas-relief.
Project Background
In this project, we were shown Ocean Park #54 by
Richard Diebenkorn and asked to interpret it not as a
painting, but as a plan for a bas-relief in 3 dimensions.
The basic steps were to:
1. Observe the dividing lines present in the painting.
2. Use those lines to interpret the painting not as a painting, but rather as a plan for a bas-relief.
3. Build our imagined bas-relief in Rhino.
4. Create 2 additional bas-reliefs in which we
“expand” the original bas-relief along the dividing lines that we saw in the painting.
5. Create 3 separate collages, where each collage
contains an iteration of the bas-relief, the linework of the bas-relief, and the elements of the painting that each piece of the relief references.
1. Observe the dividing lines present in the painting.
2. Use those lines to interpret the painting not as a painting, but rather as a plan for a bas-relief.
3. Build our imagined bas-relief in Rhino.
4. Create 2 additional bas-reliefs in which we
“expand” the original bas-relief along the dividing lines that we saw in the painting.
5. Create 3 separate collages, where each collage
contains an iteration of the bas-relief, the linework of the bas-relief, and the elements of the painting that each piece of the relief references.
These were the 3 bas-reliefs I created, each one expanding beyond the last.
Collaging the Extrusion
After making the extrusions, I was to render them in wood. From there, I would then create a collage with these renderings, their linework, and the original painting. The collages are visible below, seen expanding along their diagonal lines.
