Sunday, August 25, 2013

Lumen's City Hall Debut!

With the Ragtag Cinema successfully achieving their fundraising goals to upgrade to digital projection, Lumen the Robot (who was the the central icon for the fundraiser) was in need of a new home. As this project was community effort, Ragtag decided to gift the piece to Columbia, MO Visitors Center in City Hall! Its a huge honor and I must admit a bit emotional as its amazing looking back to where it all began. Thank you again to my family, friends and supporters as I could not have done it with out you!


Process Pics

Finished Pics

Film Bumper

Columbia Tribune Article

 

Left: Executive Director  of Ragtag Cinema Tracy Lane 









Greg Orloff
American, born 1988

Lumen
Found-object assemblage sculpture, 2012
Commissioned by Ragtag Cinema and gifted to the City of Columbia, 2013

When I look at an object, whether it is a kitchen tool, a typewriter, or an automotive component, I see beyond its original function and imagine a new purpose. I have always been curious about how things work, the thought processes of the inventor, and the history of human kind’s desire to construct. As an artist, I feed upon the ideas, products and solutions of a past history of engineering and design. Just as my predecessors have done, I implement the process of innovation; the recycling of ideas and materials taps into my desire to understand not only how something works, but also how inventions have directly influenced culture and history.

           
Lumen is a robot sculpture made of found objects, which was commissioned by Ragtag Cinema, a non-profit organization that champions independent films in Columbia. With the end of 35mm film production in Hollywood comes the era of mandatory digital projection. It is a moment that prompted Ragtag Cinema to address whether it should convert its traditional film projectors to digital, or ultimately be forced to limit releases to films produced with older technology. To garner support for the new projectors, Lumen became the central icon in the cinema’s fundraising campaign, “Ragtag Needs Robots.” In just over a month, the theater successfully raised the funding required to convert to all-digital projectors.

Lumen’s purpose represents more than that of a mascot; it embodies the cumulative efforts of an entire community with differing backgrounds, experiences, educations, perspectives and lifestyles. Made up of the dirty, broken-down discards of obsolete, forgotten technologies, Lumen stands as a shining beacon of Columbia’s endeavors and successes—there is hope, no matter what the odds are, as long as you have community.

— Greg Orloff, 2013
 


 


 

  

 

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Penland 2013

So this summer i was the lucky recipient of a work-study scholarship to Penland School of Crafts! it was great, stellar, magnificent experience! I took a metals class focusing in Steel Jewelry with April Wood called "From Ferrous to Fine". It was so great to learn/see from April as well as from my classmates different processes, techniques and ideas in both traditional and non traditional adornments. Especially with my own work focusing heavily in steel.

  It's amazing reflecting back a year ago when I took my first workshop at Arrowmont and how different these two experiences were, both being great. Humbled doesn't even begin to describe this experience and I look forward to return in the future... Hopefully as a studio assistant next summer or even further out, as a resident artist.
















Pop Up Performance during Show n' Tell. This was a project I started in August 2012 and finished in March 2013. There are hundreds of soldier joints and many feet of forged mild steel wire. It has been form fitted to my body and yes, its not the most comfortable thing to wear.



















Sky Rockets!

A photo shoot by Chelsea Myers and Josh Oxenhandler- http://www.tinyatticproductions.com/