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"Figuratively Speaking" The Latest Exhibition of the Sac State Sculpture Club

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The Sacramento State sculpture club does not restrict its members to the medium of its title. The members of this club work in any aspect of their choosing, leading to exciting and varied exhibitions. On this small gallery floor, you will see drawings, paintings, sculptures of metal, clay, plastic, and in one case--honeycomb.          "Figuratively Speaking" is loosely based on the artists consideration of form, considering what makes an object recognizable, and playing with viewers expectations of that object. Courtesy of Sacramento State University art students. Captured by the author. This use of multi-media sculpture, as well as the manipulation of scale and perspective, has been engaged with by many contemporary artists. The Surrealists and Dada artists of the Modern era were masters at upsetting expectations of the viewer by creating an impossible and unnerving object in the realm of visceral reality. Object  (or  Luncheon in Fur ),