Sunday, November 11, 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
I could not post my power point presentation on blogger but I was able it upload it onto this website that hosts documents. Click the link to view my project.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
My Work
The majority of my work is done
with pen and oil based colored pencils. Bright vibrant colors, tight clean lines
and smooth shading can be seen in all of my work. I try to astound my audience
with seemingly adolescent subject matter that sometimes has an eerie twist. Precise
shading and attention to subtle color changes gives my curious subject matter a
realistic feel. All of my art starts out with a light gestural line drawing that
I build upon with different line weights and thicknesses to establish depth.
I don’t remember when I started
being interested in art. Drawing has
just been something I have always just done. I really started gaining speed
with art what when I realized I could draw pictures for my friends. My drawings
made them laugh and were funnier than any joke I could think to say. My usual
medium back in those days was on lined paper with a number 2 pencil. As it
stands today my favorite audience is still my laughing friends but I use many different
mediums.
I work almost exclusively in sketch
books and I rarely ever complete any of my creations. In the past 5 years I
have filled every page of 10 visual journal sketch books from front to back
with drawings and ideas. I have never made any large works and I have only actually
finished a hand full of pieces in my life. The pieces I considered to be finished
are small and not extremely detailed like the majority of my sketches. I would like to start pushing my self to produce
art outside the pages of my sketch book and be able to display some of my art.
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Nam June Paik
Nam June Paik
Technology:
There are 25 silent televisions stacked inside of a black
shinny cabinet. Vibrant flashing images blink in rhythm producing a
compositional element which makes sense because Paik started his art career as
an avant-guard musician.
Tubes, hoses, copper piping, and plastic buttons and
doohickeys adorn the steel covered plywood cabinet. The silver and copper
colors give the piece a futuristic feel.
Technology’s gothic inspired arches and points put the
viewer in mind of both medieval architecture and space exploration. Paik is
famous for his juxtaposition of past and present in his works. The images that
flash on Technology’s 25 TV screens
are a memory bank for the future showing both the failures and triumphs of
technological advances made by humans. Call it what you will object or art Technology is a remarkable Technicolor
summary of our civilization.
K-456:
During the 1960’s Nam June Paik started work on the Family of Robot series which he
continued to add on to until his death in 2006. K-456 was the first member of Paik’s Family of Robot, K-456 traveled with Paik to exhibitions around the
world until his demise in 1982. Out side of the Whitney Museum as a part of
Paik’s retrospective exhibition K-456
was struck by a moving car. Paik describes him self as having “been rather
successful finding a new combination of machine and man.”
K-456 was built in Japan and was supposed to be an
interactive piece of art where it would interact with pedestrians on the
street. K-456 is a relatively simple construction with a basic anamorphic
figure. His body consists of metal tubing that form thick squat legs, square
shoulders and a rectangle head. Wires and electronic components are strung
along his legs arms and torso that connect in a large mass at the bottom of his
left leg. There is a fan where a belly button would be and a speaker in place
of a mouth.
Electronic Superhighway: Continental US, Alaska, Hawaii:
Electronic Superhighway: Continental US, Alaska, Hawaii was created in 1995 and is
on permanent display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. This map of
the United Stated has political boundaries that are sectioned off with
multi-colored neon lights. Televisions are positioned within the different
state lines and show constant loops of film. Each state has different video
loops that correspond to the area. For example scenes from wizard of Oz repeat
from inside the Kansas border.
Paik’s
sculpture is done on a massive scale, 15 x 40 x 4 ft, it fills an
entire wall of the museum. The looping video images Paik suggest that American
culture is heavily influenced by film and television. This statement is
exemplified by the state specific looping clips that represent each region. Constant
maintenance and upkeep is needed to preserve the tube televisions. Electronic
Superhighway: Continental US, Alaska, Hawaii epitomizes American culture and whether it
is a positive or negative critique is debatable.
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Goucher College's Silber At Gallery is currently exhibiting a show called Geo-Structure. The show is open from Tuesday, September 4, to Sunday,
October 7, 2012. The artists are Jessica van Brakle, Ryan Browning, Mimi Frank,
Magnolia Laurie, Bill Schmidt, Richard Vosseller, and Jowita Wyszomirska. There are installations, paintings, and drawings of structural themes and repetitive components. Many of the works depict man-made structures and others have organic elements.
The Geo-Structure artists make observations and comments on how humans live and interact with their surroundings. Some of the artists make comments different organic and cultural relationships . The viewer will see many different examples if artistic mediums at Geo-Structure. Jowita Wyszomirska utilities tape and wire in her work and Mary Annella "Mimi" Frank uses repurposed chairs in her work. All of the artists exhibited at Geo-Structure make interesting observations about the structure of our culture.
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The Geo-Structure artists make observations and comments on how humans live and interact with their surroundings. Some of the artists make comments different organic and cultural relationships . The viewer will see many different examples if artistic mediums at Geo-Structure. Jowita Wyszomirska utilities tape and wire in her work and Mary Annella "Mimi" Frank uses repurposed chairs in her work. All of the artists exhibited at Geo-Structure make interesting observations about the structure of our culture.
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
These three examples of my work were
all created with prismacolor colored pencils and drawn on white paper. The Bee
and the Orange are on 8.5x11 card stock paper and the tree Mouse picture is on
12x18 poster board. The tree mouse drawing is the largest drawing I have ever completed.
It is also one of the most involved; I usually never bother to establish a
setting for my drawings. The majority of my drawings are like the Orange and
the Bee, either small or incomplete.
I drew the little bee to put on my
business card for work, I work at a place called Mr.’s. The Orange was drawn in
2010 and it is inspired by the work of Nick Baxter and Greg Simkins.
The tree mice picture was an ambitious and long over due project for me, I
wanted to take my time one something and actually finish it. It took about 15
hours and I worked on it periodically for a month and a half. Hopefully this
piece will be the first of many large involved works.
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