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Presenter: Eddie Dominguez |
Email Address: edomingu@unlnotes.unl.edu |
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Presentation Date: January 24, 2006 |
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Meet Your Presenters: Eddie Dominguez is a life long educator and ceramic sculptor artist. Mr Dominguez currently serves as an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in the department of art and art history. Mr. Dominguez memories of his childhood, family and hometown combined with recent ideals about them have encouraged him to explore themes about religion. His work has always served to answer questions he has experienced in his life. Mr. Dominguez religious background has always been an undercurrent in his work. The Rosaries, Torsos and Icons reflect on the days of his childhood and moments that changed his life. |
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Lesson Description: On day one of the two-part working with clay/ceramic lessons, Mr. Dominguez will share how ceramic sculptor has been impacted through his involvement with family, home and place. Mr. Dominguez will share how his work has always been inspired and filled with a sense of place.The Nebraska landscape is fueling his recent work with images of rolling hills, carved fields, churning weather, tornadoes and a silver light. |
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Lesson Objectives: By completing this lesson, the student will:
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To gain an understanding of what drives Mr. Dominguez work, students should go to the following web site and review examples of his work. http://www.lapidesgallery.com/artists/dominguez2.html Mr. Dominguez recently teamed with Diane Marsh in an exhibition at the Museum of Nebraska Art. To gain additional insight to Mr. Dominquez and the MONA exhibition, go to the following site to read an article by Indepth Art News. http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2005/05/30/33044.html |
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Description: (Mr. Dominguez will share about his background and its impact on his work) |
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Mr. Dominguez was trained as a ceramic artist, yet his work occupies a unique position as a bridge between the world of crafts and fine arts. Mr. Dominguez will share how he combines pottery forms to create three dimensional sculpture displayed on the wall or displayed as an object in space and how his use of color is informed and inspired by contemporary painting. By combining ideas of contemporary painting, sculpture and crafts into multimedia forms his vision becomes realized. It is informed by his love of the land, a sense of nostalgia for home and ideas of culture. Themes of joy, sentimentality, celebration, loss, humor, environmental beauty and destruction imbue his work with content. For the past 20 years he has worked in a variety of materials to create whole room installations, furniture, prints, and monumental ceramic rock piles. Sculptural ceramic dinnerware sets that when assembled become flower gardens, fish aquariums, a waterfall, knick-knack shelves, etc. and are only mildly functional dishware when used, is a theme he has enjoyed and explored repeatedly over this time. |
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