{"id":6634,"date":"2015-07-28T17:13:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2015-07-28T17:13:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T23:13:17","slug":"defying-our-perception-limitations-with-hyperrealism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2015\/07\/28\/defying-our-perception-limitations-with-hyperrealism\/","title":{"rendered":"Defying our Perception Limitations with Hyperrealism"},"content":{"rendered":"

A profile series on the artists and individuals of\u00a0The Art Classic<\/em>, one of this year\u2019s exhibitions at the LA County Fair \u2013 September 4-27, 2015.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m compelled to produce work that is visually poetic by using a medium that defies perceived limitations.\u201d \u2013 Vincent Tomczyk
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\nVincent Tomczyk is a Los Angeles-based fine artist who despite not attending Art School, he is truly passionate about art and everything it entails. \u201cI had always enjoyed painting, but [after taking an art class], I discovered that I was truly a sculptor.\u201d
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\nHis sculptures can be categorized by the Hyperrealist style. Hyperrealism\u00a0is a genre of painting and sculpture resembling a high-resolution photograph. He creates objects that are exactly how they would be in real life down to the smallest detail.
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\nTomczyk is not just recreating every day objects in great detail. He is creating these objects out of a very unique and fragile medium – paper. \u201cThe biggest challenge in creating a paper sculpture is making it structurally sound. I make a foam-core infrastructure in the areas that bear the most weight (foam-core is a 3\/16\u201d thick material that has a foam inner layer and 2 paper outer layers \u2013 the foam inside consist of more than 98{62245692f563d27b9d36e7e01cc13940036b3fd1b9326aee961c7dac74c92b1e} air, so its actually more paper than the name implies. Next, I layer with paper and add a Trompe L\u2019oeil finish. For cushioned pieces, I add a canvas layer to the underside of the paper so that it doesn\u2019t tear when I hand sew it.\u201d
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\nThe reason that he creates these objects out of paper is to challenge perception. By making this chair out of paper, the function of this object is gone, and the form is the only thing that lasts. \u201cBy removing the object\u2019s function I\u2019m asking the viewer to consider what the object represents, not what it actually functions as.\u201d
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\nThe form of the chairs are made so realistically that I would not be surprised if someone thought it was an actual chair and tried to sit on it. Tomczyk, himself, admitted to being fooled by the chairs function. \u201cI nearly leaned on the Berg\u00e8re once. I\u2019m not sure if I was proud or embarrassed.\u201d
\nTomczyk\u2019s work will be featured in the Millard Sheets Art Center\u2019s upcoming exhibition\u00a0The Art Classic<\/em>.<\/a>
\nPlease join us this year at the\u00a0LA County Fair<\/a>\u00a0to view Vincent\u2019s work and the other artists profiled in this series from the\u00a0Los Angeles Art Association<\/a>\u00a0who were selected for this year\u2019s exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A profile series on the artists and individuals of\u00a0The Art Classic, one of this year\u2019s exhibitions at the LA County Fair \u2013 September 4-27, 2015. \u201cI\u2019m compelled to produce work that is visually poetic by using a medium that defies perceived limitations.\u201d \u2013 Vincent Tomczyk Vincent Tomczyk is a Los Angeles-based fine artist who despite…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,11,14],"tags":[75,79,541,612,754,755,832,1118,1209],"class_list":["post-6634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-entertainment","category-fairnews","category-funatthefair","tag-art","tag-artwork","tag-hyperrealism","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-art-association","tag-millard-sheets-art-center","tag-the-art-classic","tag-vincent-tomczyk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}