Tine Regula

Hello, I'm Tine Regula- a sculptor and performance artist, with a BFA in Sculpture from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Here on this blog, you'll find my progress work for my senior thesis. check out www.tineregula.wordpress.com to see the finished result (both photo and audio!) and PLEASE check out my currently active blog at www.tineregula-pewter.tumblr.com

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Oh this old blog? This is my senior bfa thesis--what's WAY MORE interesting is www.tineregula-pewter.tumblr.com !!!!

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-Tine Regula- Pewter Sculpture

Tine Regula, born and raised in Buffalo, NY, graduated from State University of New York at New Paltz in 2012, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture, with a minor in Theatre...

If you've found yourself on this old blog, please direct your attention to my more active blog at www.tineregula-pewter.tumblr.com! Though, feel free to still leaf through to your liking. :)

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Tine Regula

Sculptor, Puppet Fabricator, Props Artisan, Performance & Sound Artist

Hey all! Please check out my new website on wordpress! <3

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I know I've created successfully engaging interactive sculpture when children intuitively know how to play with it. :)

Tine Regula, No Evils, 2012.

steel, pewter, sound.

Installation covers an area of 11' x 8'

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Wayyyy too happy about being a classy welder chick ;)

Not to mention the opening of my bfa thesis exhibition at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art!

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My work, No Evils, is an interactive sculptural experience! I wrote three free form prayers that correlate with each animal totem. This is an offer to listen to my voice, look at the totems, and be still within the constant movement of the the crowds through the gallery--through life itself. -Tine Regula, sculptor & performance artist.

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It's finally happening!!! :)

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Installation in progress of my BFA thesis sculpture work, No Evils, at the Samuel-Dorsky Museum of Art

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Testing my sound art that will be a part of the my interactive BFA thesis sculpture work,No Evils

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Installing my BFA thesis sculpture work,No Evilsinto the Samuel-Dorsky Museum of Art

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pretty pretty AND comfy sitting platforms that will conceal my cd-players for my audio-tracks. Headphones will come out from a small hole in the platforms, encouraging viewers to sit, listen to my sound art, and chill to look at my steel sculptures at the same time--instead of passing by quickly, as so many art viewers do.

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:)))) newly finished Artist Statement for No Evils: 

In blind transformation, the Snake introverts to the darkness of Sight.

Through a current of Sound, the Fish enters mystery of thought.

By cessation of Speech, the Crane finds awareness of breath.

            Through working with steel and pewter, I am exploring metal’s innate power as a material of protection—specifically as armor within the realm of spiritual life. Throughout human history, metal has been artistically crafted to form power amulets, ritual objects, and monuments of religious devotion. My process in creating No Evils became a method of personal healing and forging of my own spirituality.

            I fabricated sculptural abstractions of a snake, a fish, and a crane, elevating their animal identity to that of a totemic deity. Each animal totem is paired with an audio recording of my voice, speaking my own prayers. The prayers are free form, mixing elements of Catholicism with Paganism, separating the ritual from traditional religious structure. By doing so, my prayers embrace the liminal space between dark, primal emotion and childlike fantasy. My interactive work, No Evils is my offer of a meditative experience—an invitation to self-isolate and open awareness to the very true fact that

you are here.  

                                                                                    Tine Regula,

Sculptor, and Performance Artist

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The three steel animal totem sculptures, blackened after their surface treatment by quenching in peanut oil. Fish, Snake, and Crane.

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Snake Totem sculpture after peanut oil surface treatment

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Fish Totem sculpture after peanut oil surface treatment

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Here on the bottom jaw of the Fish totem sculpture, you can see the color shift between the half that was quenched in peanut oil on the left and the half that is raw and untreated on the right.

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Crane Totem sculpture after peanut oil surface treatment