Kevin Champeny
“See-an-enemy” Chandelier
30” Diameter
125 lbs, 400+ hand cast rubber 50 caliber bullets
This is the big brother to my fire lamp:
Just in case you ever wanted to know how one of the Candeliers for Jellio and the iCarly show is actually built. I hand make every one.
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If you happen to be in Brooklyn in May, come check us out. Jellio is coming out with some amazing stuff this year. If you can’t see us in person, take a gander at Jellio.com. If you can dream it, we can make it.
Kevin Champeny
Copper Winter Grove
30”wide x 38”tall x 17” deep 62 lbs
Copper Winter Grove
30”wide x 38”tall x 17” deep 62 lbs
Grove of miniature bonsai style trees constructed from 5000+ feet of 14 gauge copper coated steel, 2000+ feet of 32 gauge bare copper wire. The trees are hand tied to the stone, no welding or glue of any kind was involved, tension alone holds the trees to the stone.
Kevin Champeny
Copper Bonsai
19”wide x 20”tall x 15” deep 8 lbs
Bonsai tree constructed from 150+ feet of copper coated steel, 36 gauge copper tooling foil. 150+ hand cut and patinated leaves. The tree is hand tied to the stone, no welding or glue of any kind was involved, tension alone holds the tree to the stone and the leaves to the branches.
Kevin Champeny
Copper Japanese Maple Bonsai
39”wide x 26”tall x 21.5” deep 50 lbs
Copper Japanese Maple Bonsai
39”wide x 26”tall x 21.5” deep 50 lbs
Bonsai tree constructed from 6000+ feet of copper coated steel, 24 running feet of 36 gauge copper tooling foil. 300+ hand cut and patinated Japanese Maple leaves. The tree is hand tied to the stone, no welding or glue of any kind was involved, tension alone holds the tree to the stone and the leaves to the branches.
This is a selection of salt fired terracotta masks from a set titled “Masquerade”
Kevin Champeny
“The Jester”
12”wide x 12”deep x 14”tall
Ceramic with low fire metallic glaze
Kevin Champeny
“Killing Field”
53” wide x 38” tall x 2” deep
12,500 hand cast animal pieces…legs, tails, feet, fins, heads, wings, hands, etc….
This is a selection from a set titled “Masquerade” I made a few years back. I was experimenting with various forms and glazes as I was developing a new light-weight clay body. I packed them up during a move a while back and recently discovered them in the back of my studio during a lengthy renovation of the space. I think there are about 40 in the set. This is the first time I have displayed many of them.
The “Candelier” I make for Jellio has just over 3000 hand cast acrylic GummiBears. At 18” diameter, it creates quite a focal point in any room it is installed in.
These are sold at Jellio.com
There are 2 sizes:
18” diameter: $2400.00 open edition
31” diameter: $6500.00 open edition
I built the one for i-Carly and installed it on the set
I am the production manager for Jellio.
These are all hand made by me.
I am also the creator and producer of the “Gummilight” for Jellio, also seen on the i-Carly set.
Never leave me alone for 7 hours with a knife and a 45lb pumpkin…
I have been in the middle of a lengthy renovation on the studio. The “Wall of Wonder” is how I organize the thousands of parts for the mosaics, it also serves as a source of inspiration for new ideas. The close up is the set up for a new piece titled “Killing Field”, there are about 50,000+ parts in those bins.
What Remains (5’ wide x 4’ tall x 1” deep; 35,000+ hand cast urethane flowers)
“I am a New York based artist creating mosaic works blurring the line between photo, painting, and sculpture by creating a conversation between the hand sculpted and cast pixels and the image they come together to form. All pieces are designed, sculpted, molded, cast in color, and applied by myself.
For “What Remains”, I sculpted each original flower, then created silicone molds of the originals, then I cast them in color. They are not painted in any way. I cast them in various two part liquid resins.
These pieces take several months to design, sculpt, mold, and cast. The construction process is a painstaking adventure of careful placement and gluing (super super-glue), that can take up to a month to complete.” - Kevin Champeny. Learn more about the artist here.TO GET THIS ARTIST TO THE NEXT ROUND, LIKE OR REBLOG THIS POST! (Pass the word onto all of your friends by tweeting the link and #NEXTArtspaceArtist.)
thebestoftimes-theworstoftimes asked: 1. How long does it take on average for each piece ? I assume it's painstaking work. 2. How did you come up with the idea ?
Some of the larger pieces like “What Remains” take up to a month or longer from conception of design to the final ready to hang completed work. It is very painstaking work, I design, sculpt, mold, cast in color(none of the pieces are painted) and glue each piece individually to create the overall look.
The idea came out of a desire to blur the line between painting, photography and sculpture. I chose the mosaic idea as a vehicle to create tension and a conversation between the sculpted pixels and the image they create.
-Kevin Champeny
