Risa Hricovsky will receive her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago spring 2016. Prior to graduate school, Risa has been a post-bacc at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Alfred University; Risa received her BFA from Bowling Green State University.
Risa’s work is an investigation of perception, her work integrates two dispart materials mimicking each other rendering visually as though made by one single material. This questions how we see value materials. For example, porcelain with gold duct tape affixed, was entangled with its replica in the form of a soft-sculpture made of muslin and copper pipe, requests to consider the tape in this new environment. Do we inherently assign it with more value or does it completely transcend its material notions of tape and become something else all together? Through this mimicry and indexical object making begins a critique of our ideological perceptions of different materials.
MFA in progress installation 2016, 8ft x 8ft x 13ft Materials include: contact paper, pom poms, muslin, porcelain, acrylic paint, oil paint, pipe cleaners, newsprint, duck tape, thread
Woven Pipe cleaners 2015, 3ft x 4ft x 2ft The top portion of the sculpture is pipe cleaners woven together and its attached to its translation in porcelain. This was done by sculpting a base for it out of porcelain and applying decals made of images of the woven pipe cleaners.
Woven Pipe cleaners (detail) 2015, 3ft x 4ft x 2ft The top portion of the sculpture is pipe cleaners woven together and its attached to its translation in porcelain. This was done by sculpting a base for it out of porcelain and applying decals made of images of the woven pipe cleaners.
Knotted 2015, 4.5ftx 5ft x 5.2ft x 8in, Porcelain knots with gold duct tape intertwined with its copycat of soft sculpture made of stuffed muslin tubes, ornamented with gold thread and gold pipe cleaners.
Knotted (detail) 2015, 4.5ftx 5ft x 5.2ft x 8in, Porcelain knots with gold duct tape intertwined with its copycat of soft sculpture made of stuffed muslin tubes, ornamented with gold thread and gold pipe cleaners.
