FINAL PROJECT in special topics with wendy babcox, december 09

This project is a continuation of the type of work I was doing with the narrative project. In the studio, I asked the models just to look at the camera, and these images are the result. I layered multiple images together from the shoot, so one can really see the lapse of time and subtle movements within the person. Like in my last project, I wanted to emphasis the concept of time being intrinsic to humans. When looking at the images, it is interesting to me to see that the subjects tend to make the same facial expressions over and over (as in, some people more serious or more smiley) but each person has there own unique movements and gestures. To me, shows an important part of their personalities and what they represent to the world.

Narrative project

This was a series that I did that was in reference to St. Vincent's "The Apocolypse Song". These pictures are very open to interpretation but give way to the notions of time and light being central to human existance, as well as the digital world becoming intrinsic to human nature.

GERHARD RICHTER

So, its pretty ironic that I find this image a day after my critique when Forrest asked me what artists i am inspired by. This piece, titled "Deer" is really on track with what I turned in for my narrative assignment. i have seen Richter's paintings/photographs before, but not this one. This piece is very inspiring to me.

I think for my final, I want to continue exploring this path and see where it takes me.

In his abstract pictures, Richter builds up cumulative layers of nonrepresentational painting. The paintings evolve in stages, based on his responses to the picture’s progress: the incidental details and patterns that emerge. Throughout his process, Richter uses the same techniques he uses in his representational paintings, blurring and scraping to veil and expose prior layers.

Richter’s abstract work is remarkable for the illusion of space that develops, ironically, out of his incidental process: an accumulation of spontaneous, reactive gestures of adding, moving, and subtracting paint. Despite unnatural palettes, spaceless sheets of color, and obvious trails of the artist’s tools, the abstract pictures often act like windows through which we see the landscape outside. As in his representational paintings, there is an equalization of illusion and paint. In those paintings, he reduces worldly images to mere incidents of Art. Similarly, in his abstract pictures, Richter exalts spontaneous, intuitive mark-making to a level of spatial logic and believability.

Nearly all of Richter’s work demonstrates both illusionistic space that seems natural and the physical activity and material of painting—as mutual interferences. For Richter, reality is the combination of new attempts to understand—to represent; in his case, to paint—the world surrounding us.

st.vincent

go to this site! 

its a link for st. vincent's song, "the apocalypse song"

i am taking a piece of her poetry for my next project, the part where she talks about light and time being what all people are made of. i find this to be a very interesting concept because it's the perfect combination of essential aspects of the physical and metaphysical world. 

http://www.imeem.com/artists/st_vincent/music/JtoQWCMb/st-vincent-the-apocalypse-song/

colors and kittens!

Top image is by Joe Van Watering, this is his artist statement:
With my work I try to use bold, contrasting colors that work in tandem with geometric shapes to create abstract visions of everyday life
i heart kittens!!!!!

Bottom images are by the timetravelgroup and its called "story of a barfight". its absurd and bright and has patterns. loves it

Panorama project

opinions?

Elijah Gowin

I really like this series by Elijah Gowin called Of Falling and Floating. 

The process is interesting as well as his concept, check out his website at www.elijahgowin.com For each series, there is a series statement you can click on. 

He also has a series on baptism that I like a lot. His work poses some big questions and leaves the viewer with a lot to ponder. 

His themes tend to deal with the relationships between technology, human experience, and faith.

sometimes i make things

saul becker

Meditative/Vegitative
http://www.saulbecker.com/index.html

I've always been interested in the fusion of music and art. If you want to hear something really awesome, go to the site above, click on sculpture, then meditative/vegetative

ivan navarro

Ivan Navarro, Death Row, 2006

book assignment:

so, for the book project, i have been focusing on the idea of lack of real connection and communication between people having to rely on machines vs actually being with the person. i feel sometimes it is as if the machines are playing a mean joke, having human qualities, but still actually just being a machine, and therefore the people relying on machines never get a real sense of connection. i have encountered this in more than one way over the past month.

for my project, i am going to make portraits of telephones that have been purposefully broken as an attempt at regaining control over the alienating effects that some machines induce.

artist you should love:
ivan navarro, whose work i saw over the summer at the venice bienalle in the chilean pavilion. he uses lights as a reference to human life/energy. death row is made only using one light in each of the coffin-shaped rectangles.the lights that trail back are an optical illusion, created with mirrors. when looking directly into the doors, your reflection hits it and you become a part of the piece, moving darkness, surrounded by infinite light.
i am amazed and obsessed with his work; you should be too.





http://www.chilepavilionvenicebiennale.org/thresholdsoglia/

This is a video that I took, maybe it well better explain his piece.

mammaw's

I recently had to make a trip to West Virginia, where my grandmother lives, because my family got news that she had a stroke. Unfortunatly, she passed away. I decided to take pictures of her home, in which she lived as a widow for 20 years, but was constantly visited by family and friends. She was still very active in her community and helped my uncle out at his antique shop all the time. This home was built by my uncles, grandfather and father. A lot of memories are there.
Hope you enjoy these snippets into my mammaw's life

multiples assignment

I wasnt able to make last critique, but this is what I made. i didnt photoshop anyone to be floating, i asked the models to jump, fall back, lay down, or sit in a chair to get the shots, and then reworked the composition of the frame.  i wanted these pictures to have a dream-like feel to them, with the subjects representing a state of mind of the anxieties, freedoms and restrictions found in my mind every day. 

please let me know what you think since i wasnt able to be there for critique! 

thanks

 

multiples project

what ive been doing with my time lately..
finished product will be in a diptych format, more colors, and will have a male model in the opposite frame, in similar positions.
what do you think?

come to this show!! saturday sept 4 7-10pm!

you know you want to go! bay to bay boulevard
doooo it

the woodwork

photo i took in downtown tampa the other day for my friends in a band called the woodwork

other notes on the multiples project

to see the whole thing, i think you have to click on the picture

i saw this artist in venice at the biennale this summer, her name is anju dodiya and this was her first attempt at printmaking. this particular piece is titled, "the seasons"

i am in love with this work and its a good example of a triptych

i know its big but it has a lot of detail!

this is a really interesting way to interpret some of the things that have been swishing around in my brain about my next photo project (multiples).
i want the pictures to be dreamlike, with an interesting use of body composition, elements of symmetry using the diptych format and have extraneous objects layered in at a low opacity level to give some variation in color since id like to take them in the studio. to make the pictures more dreamlike, id like to make them looks like they were taken in a room filled with dust just as the light shines through; little dots to soften the image.
i want my pictures to appear as if the person in them is floating in the air, but i dont think i want them to look like they are actually photoshopped to be floating. thats what i like about the angle in which this is shot. just changing the direction of the picture gives it a totally different feel. i love the use of water as an element. the reflections make it more surreal
the lighting on this piece is really nice also, it highlights the legs really well
iheartmyart:
Nils Riedweg

i just wanted to share a site that i found that has a lot of contemporary artists on it,
www.iheartmyart.com

i like this site because it has all mediums and it has a wide range of artists