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Ralph
Martel
Professor
Performing and Creative Arts
Degrees :
Certificate of Design, Cooper Union 1962
BFA, The Cooper Union
Biography / Academic Interests
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Professor Ralph Martel studied at Cooper Union graduating with honors in 1962. He worked as graphic artist in NYC from 1962-68. He began his tenure in 1970 when CSI was the Staten Island Community College. Professor Martel refined the foundation sculpture course Art 150 to include two and three-dimensional design and were integrated with MAC-CAD programs. Art 250 & 350 Professor Martel teaches techniques through works in carved stone and wood pieces and sculpt forms with TIG welders using solid and transparent silhouettes as well as the cast-shadows. These were developed with CAD studies. In Art 120, Professor Martel teaches drawing uses rendering techniques instructing students to render with strong photographic chiaroscuro qualities.
In “Studio Art, Theory and Practice” (ART 175), students use geometric ideas to organize their paintings. These concepts were adopted from Albrecht Dürer’s publication of the Dresden Sketchbook, 1528. Professor Martel adopted this concept of order to include Phyllotaxis, which is basically leaf arrangement or the laws that govern them. The tendency of leaves to grow in a specific manner give patterns to a visual study of natural geometry, thereby opening the way for the artist to bring it into focus and exploit a new challenge.
Scholarships / Publications
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1968, first prize “Experiments in Art and Technology,” for “Heart Beats Dust. Shown at MOMA, NYC. The Brooklyn Museum, MOMA, San Francisco and St. Thomas Museum, Houston in Pontus Hulten’s “The Machine”
1990, Mellon Foundation Grant for paper on Albrecht Dürer’s “Four Riders of the Apocalypse” at Graduate Center CUNY.
1991-2006 research painter’s geometry in 90 paintings.
2001 gave Dürer paper on the Apocalypse at the CADE conference, Glasgow, Scotland.
2003 Drexel University set 5 Dürer papers at mathforum (“what’s new” 18 May 2003).
2004 Antonio Natali, Renaissance studio, authorized use of Uffizi Gallery slides of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Annunciation” and “Baptism of Christ”.
2006-08 presented “Durer at 13,” for middle school geometry teachers and geometric phyllotaxis images from photos of woodlands at Discovery Institute’s Technology Conference.
Professor Martel exhibited: OIA exhibits in NYC, Staten Island Institute, Westbeth, NYC, from 1970 to present. Beauborg Centre Culturel Pompidou, Paris, Sigma Group Bordeaux, Coltejer Bienal, Columbia, S.A., Chancellor’s Show, Shangai, China, Mueso de Anthropologia y Arte, Rio Piedras P.R. , 1979 CAPS Fellowship.
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