PERRY KULPER

Bleached Out:Relational Drawing

These drawings, nuanced dislocations, incomplete thoughts and approximate moments operate as resistance to the fixation of known figuration, or as typological reinforcement- they offer a thickened space of possibilities of growth through multiple, or manifold of relations.

- Kulper 

Central Califoria History Museum, Thematic drawing

Thematic Drawing, detail

For those who are interested, he writes about his work here.
Perry Kulper is also a teacher, and has taught courses similar to this one. Below are a range of works by students in one of these courses.

Project: Generative Removal

These projects focus on erasure as a means of generating an architectural proposition. Instead of contributing to architecture through additive means, the erasure work attempts to produce architecture through subtractive methods. Perry introduces an idea of “5 points of erasure as deconstructing towards a new architecture” which he likens to Le Corbusier’s “5 points of architecture.” 

The work started by creating a diptych which, on one side, had the floor plan of a famous villa or house. The other side of the diptych was to be populated with a series of “marks” whose character and placement was determined by a series of rules. Once the diptych was populated with marks, the work of erasure could begin. Again, a very specific set of rules was used to govern the removal and/or remembering of the marks. The two sides of the diptych were governed by the same rules and meant to be worked as a single drawing.

Catharine Pyenson

Shaoxuan Dong

Harry (Me)

Project: Real Slow

This work tackles what Kulper refers to as Relational Thinking. Students were asked to select an image and then redraw the image by revealing the relationships and hidden connections behind the original image. SImilarly to our first task, the focus is not on recreating the same image, but utilizing drawing methods to reveal what lies under the surface of the image.

Xiang Liu

Catharine Pyenson

Harry

Jeeeun Ham