“Crayons are a gateway drug. To most adults, the sight and smell of crayons produce specific memories of childhood. The twist in the road to nostalgia is the creation of a new object, from a medium in which it was not intended. This element of unexpected interaction and play had me at hello.”
Herb Williams is another great artist that has found his style of sculpturing in the use of household materials. An ordinary material like crayons has been the focal material for Williams and has created some wonderful crayon sculpture. Williams received his BFA in sculpture from Birmingham-Southern College; he started his unique creation of Crayola statuette, Williams early on got used to matters of form and materials working in construction. He likes to create his art on a large scale which would require many pieces of crayons up to as hundreds of thousands. Williams’ work has been exhibited across the United States and in France and has even been commissioned to design the small duplicate of the white house. He has even been rewarded The Joan Mitchell Foundation Museum Purchase Grant in 2004 and the Next Star Artist Award in 2008. Some of his work is even political has many different designs with Obama administration campaigned mentioned on CNN.
Love Child Series: red, yellow, black, white
The piece is interesting enough with the crayons being the base that forms the outside and inside of the objects but that the figures don’t have and particularly feature to them but their movement. The genders and ages of the children are not defined in any way except for the colors used around them.
Homage To Andre Serrano 15" x 17" x 17"
Bitch Bag (Coach)
