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Hilary
Shames Langhorst
638 Pine
Street
Ambridge, PA
USA
Phone: 724-266-2753
Email: hilarylanghorst@home.com
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"My work is about transformation and regeneration. It is about looking
beyond the moment of existence and into the whole pattern of the structure
of life and our environment in the natural world. From supernova transforming
into nebula and back into gasses that come together as new stars, seeing
this and the sperm egg relationship in infinite space. To the structures
beyond the subatomic level where matter is formed in such theories as
Super Symmetry and String Theory to application of natural geometries
such as the Golden Section to back holes all the way into the structure
of leaves, and further down into DNA. I believe all things are connected.
Even into the symbolism developed in organized religion and mythology.
I see both the world of spirituality and the world of scientific theory
as being indemonstrably linked, even symartist's statementtic. I am fascinated by all
processes of metamorphosis from the development of a chrysalis into a
beautiful butterfly into the Phoenix rising from the ashes, to Christ's
resurrection through revelation, to Shiva's creation and destruction of
the universe. I believe all things are continually coming in and out of
being, just as we are dying, still we grow and develop new life. All is
in flux there is beginning and no end it is all infinite, kaleidoscopic.
One big torus knot, or more simply a Mobius Strip, where one could follow
the surface endlessly and never even grasp the whole of it all, to live
as one with the great transformation, such is the life we are blessed
with and all the knowledge that passes into and through us. "
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ARTWORK ON THE
WEB
Virtual Environments: "Mnemosyne02"-
http://www.shames.org/mnemo/ (requires Internet Explorer browser)
Virtual Environments: "Mnemosyne01"-
http://www.shames.org/hjl/ (requires downloadable plug-in)
Physical Sculpture Images:
"Relics"- http://members.home.net/hlanghorst/
Pittsburgh
Society of Sculptors - Work exhibited in 65th annual exhibition. Web:
http://www.societyofsculptors.org
POD Gallery: Digital
Prints- http://podgallery.com/index.cfm?page=catdetails&category=191&From=44,104
Fine
Art Sculptors & Technology in the United Kingdom-
http://www.finearts.mmu.ac.uk/fast-uk/members/hilarylanghorst/hilarylanghorst.html
Telesculpture 2001: Gallery-
http://prism.asu.edu/prism/telesculpt/gallery.html
Toile Métisse &
Ars Mathématica: "THE FUTURE OF WORK", The Parc de la Villette
in Paris- Event
Diary -http://www.intersculpt.org/cite/journal-17.htm
Animation
Contact Sheets- http://members.home.net/hilarylanghorst/index.html
ANIMATED INDUSTRIES ON
THE WEB
Commercial Works: Animated
Industries - http://www.animatedindustries.com
EDUCATION
Karlsruhe
Academy of Art for the 1993 - 1994 academic year
Artist in Residence
The
University of Michigan Graduate School of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Degree: M.F.A. Sculpture 1991 - 1993
The
University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Degree: B.F.A. Sculpture 1985 – 1989
EXPERIENCE
Assistant Coordinator for
the 19th International Sculpture Conference:
Pittsburgh, PA Current
Organizing the International Sculpture Groups' Space and Presentations, assisting
with the Computer and Arts Forum, and maintaining the Web site for APT Pittsburgh
(Art-Performance-Technology): http://www.apt2001.org
Instructor at MESA
Current
Mechanical Solutions For Engineering, Design & Manufacturing, Pittsburgh,
PA
President of Animated
Industries 1999 to Current
Projects commissioned by Interactive Ensemble
Inc., Austin, Texas, as well as Rutgers,
the State University of New Jersey, Chick
Workholding Solutions Warrendale PA. and contracted architectural renderings
for Facility Planning & Resources and
Ansman and Associates Architects.
3D book covers and collaborations with the author Annabelle
Clippinger, and fine art animation collaborations with painter Peter Petersen
of Loan, France and sculptor Robert
Michael Smith of N.Y.C.
Instructor: Penn State
University 1998 to 2000
Beaver and McKeesport
Campuses
Prepared and delivered lesson plans and lectures; established course goals for
drawing and painting courses; demonstrated methods and procedures to students;
conducted class discussions and critiques of work; observed and evaluated student
progress and made suggestions for improvement; accompanied students on field
trips to museums and art galleries; arranged student exhibitions; determined
students' grades.
Teaching Assistant: University
of Michigan School
of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI 1991 - 1993
Taught undergraduate drawing course for non-art majors.
Teaching Assistant/Resident
Advisor Pennsylvania Governor's
School for the Arts, Bucknell University, PA 1988
Assisted teaching sculpture; demonstrated methods of clay modeling, wax working
and welding to high school students; observed and evaluated students' work to
determine progress and made suggestions for improvement; stimulated class discussions;
assisted in organizing student activities and arranging exhibitions; responsible
for 20 students in dormitory; advised and counseled students, resolving problems
in dormitory.
Glass Designer: South Street
Stained Glass Company, Philadelphia, Pa
Designed, fabricated and installed leaded stained glass windows.
Associate: Sculpture Fabrication
with Aaron Goldblatt, Philadelphia, PA
Did fabrication work for an Alice Ayccock exhibition in California.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
AND SEMINARS
2001
ISC 19th International Sculpture Conference Pittsburgh 2001; Interactive,
Virtual Sculpture to be presented at the “Computer and Sculpture Forum”
2000
ISC 18th International Sculpture Conference Houston 2000; Presenter
at the “Computer and Sculpture Forum”
CAD Expo '99, Autodesk
and CAD Research Pittsburgh
Presented seminar on 3D
Studio MAX, software by Discreet
EXHIBITIONS
2001 Interactive, Virtual
Sculpture to be exhibited at the Pittsburgh
Center for the Arts "Sculpture NOW" exhibition.
2001 "The
Future of Work":The
Parc de la Villette in Paris, created in the early eighties, groups
together various cultural buildings and institutions : the Cité des Sciences
et de l’Industrie, the Géode, the Cité de la Musique, exhibition
rooms, concert halls and theaters.
TeleSculpture
2000 is an exhibition and series of hands-on events exploring the interface
between the physical and the virtual. School of Art, and the Design Shop in
the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Arizona State University
2000 Society
of Sculptors 65th Annual Open Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA
2000 Prints
on Demand Gallery New York, NY. Digital Prints available via the world
wide Web.
Galerie l’Echanson,
Collaborative computer installation, Loan, France
2000 Society
of Sculptors 64th Annual Open Exhibition , Pittsburgh Center for the
Arts
1999 International
Images, ltd., Group Exhibit, Sewickley, PA
1994 Alder Apotheke,
SOLO EXHIBITION: Vossstrasse 24, Hannover, Germany
1994 Volksbank, SOLO
EXHIBITION: Hauptstrasse, Wagenfeld, Germany
1993 University
of Illinois at Chicago, Big Ten Art Exhibit (Representing The University
of Michigan)
1992 The
University of Michigan, Second Annual Summer Invitational
1992 Skowhegan Solid Waste
Management Facility, PUBLIC INSTALLATION: Skowhegan, ME
1992 Maine
Arts Festival, PUBLIC INSTALLATION: Sponsored by the Maine Arts
1991-93 The
University of Michigan, Jean Paul Slusser Gallery
Metro
Convention Center, Toronto, Canada
Vox
Populi, Philadelphia, PA
1989 The
University of the Arts, CBS Auditorium, Philadelphia, PA
1996 - 1989 The
University of the Arts Sculpture Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1986 - 1989 University
of the Arts, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
The
University of the Arts Library, Philadelphia, PA
Provident Bank, Philadelphia,
PA
Edinboro
University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA
HONORS AND AWARDS
1993 Scholarship to the Karlsruhe
Academy of Art for the 1993 - 1994 academic year
The University of Michigan and the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe (Art Academy of Karlsruhe,
Germany)
1992 Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship and matching Richardson
Grant, The University of Michigan, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
Skowhegan, ME
Dybvig Award for Outstanding
Graduate Student, school of Art, The University of Michigan
School of Art Scholarships, The University of Michigan
President's Award:
In recognition of an etching based on Nijinsky, The University of the Arts,
purchased this print for permanent display in the President's office
Mary Lou Beitzel Award
for Excellence, The University of the Arts
Charles M. Kanev Prize
for Outstanding Sculpture Student, The University of the Arts
Lorraine and Ben Alexander
Awards for Artistic and Academic Achievement, The University of the Arts
ORGANIZATIONS
Member of the
International Sculpture Center
Member of FasT-UK
(Fine Art Sculptors and Technology in the United Kingdom)
Member of the Pittsburgh
Society of Sculptors: Exhibition Coordination committee, Web Design
and Maintenance
Member of theGPAUG
(Greater Pittsburgh AutoCAD Users Group)