Ara Peterson is an American born sculptor who specializes in the medium of laser cut birch and paint. Using clever placement of color and geometric shapes she creates a psychedelic blur of color. In her piece the tube she uses black and white on the out side with a crazy blend of rainbow colors on the inside, a really cool looking effect, you have to appreciate oppositions side by side!
here is another example of her tube effect this time in all black; its really cool how she uses the computer and a laser cutter to make her pieces perfect every time allowing her to make such intricate patterns with this wood, she almost seems more like an engineer than an artist with the use of some of this soft ware, its really cool.
First the foremost the extension of the body project... DAMNIT!!! i should have just left this shit, the shellac still didn't harden and now my shirt which used to be perfectly aligned and exactly how i wanted it but not freestanding is now a freestanding pile of steaming shit. not only am i pissed that my project turned out like this but this was an expensive ass project, seriously.. over 50 dollars for a failed project. its particularly frustrating because now i have to have it critiqued, which is just annoying, i feel like i have nothing to show for except a hole in the pocket. I feel like i'm just so mad and disappointed because when it comes to stuff like this, art with unconventional mediums, you need to be the one who is practical and solves the problems allowing you to complete the project you desire. i failed in that mission for this project, i took a leap of faith and instead of noticing that this probably wouldn't work i just kept covering it in shellac. another problem was my choice of materials and the fact i used a flannel shirt and not a regular dress shirt.. stupid stupid stupid. Well epic fail for this project sir, bummer. Next time on a brighter note i really liked this idea and really want to find a way to make these out of plaster or something actually rock hard and use this same idea because i feel like there is a lot of ideas and values to convey in clothing minus the human form constantly associated with it. hopefully next time i will think things through a little more and not end up in this situation, disappointing either way, note to self try to avoid large last minute modifications....
Just a brief blog about kitch. Kitch is so grand motherly and just strange, why on earth any one would collect these things is beyond me. is it so ugly and gnarly that people are fascinated by it? like an ugly sweater party perhaps? i recently had a good little experience with kitch and thought it should be shared with the blog. Sunday after being very hung over, me and the room mates were on the hunt for food around the vista area, my hommie chads sister told us about this spot called cookie lady. The cookie lady specialized in cookies but also made bomb sandwiches, after mentally preparing our self for such a place of magnitude i was quite surprised to see where we were seated; the kitch korner. A corner of the store that is entirely decorated in kitch, from little old lady's holding baskets of goods to cat clocks. this place has a decent collection of items from Mrs muffet on her tuffet to the spider that ate her whey. or something along those lines, if you dig kitch and cheap sandwiches with a real down to earth local busi. check out the cookie lady!
To be honest, i feel like this project im the least clear on. what the hell is the body? how do express such a thing that interpreted in so many ways, obviously you can express the human body in a human like figurine but thats a cop out, especially in regards to this class. how can you challenge the body and what it means, what it feels. In class today we watched the art 21 of Tim Hawkinson and Yinka Shonibare; i really wish we would have watched these EARLIER! they were super sick and gave a really interesting perspective of the human body and not really what it looks like or what it means but what it feels, what its subjected to, how it reacts, it would have made a killer introduction to the project, really awesome film erin!
Tim hawkinson reminded me of a star trekie type of guy, super into technology and our interaction with it. Almost all of his pieces are technologically advanced yet he chooses not do really plan a lot before doing he says in the film which was cool but seemed un-practical. The first piece self portrait had cut out pieces of his race attached to pistons and electrical "rotators" (haha sounds official...) moving his face almost in an emotional way, but not really, more in a confused what the fuck is wrong with you face. The best part is the way the face movements are controlled, they are hooked up t a black and white tv with light receptors that interact with the light levels moving his face... to me that was just like the exploration of the idea of mass media and television and how we just suck it in.. subconsciously.. its absurd to think about really and the people we've become.
In another one of his pieces he uses timed circuit boards and pressurized hoses to created a musical effect of squirting and dripping water into buckets with pie crusts in the bottom to amplify the sound. the hoses were twisted and tangled and all over, this stuck out to me and i had to just criticize cuz that's just what i felt like doing. he totally could have organized the hoses in a more interesting way... make a big ass octopus i don't care, i feel like it had more potential. with that said it was really awesome and i really like the idea of controlling rain drops! Check out super organ and other stuff below on a previous post a couple weeks ago.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
So we left off with the sculpture as an extention artists / various sculpture artists...
Tim Hawkinson from San Francisco Bay is yet another one of these artists. One of his most famous pieces entitled uberorgan, is a stadium sized bag pipe type instrument. Tim was quoted to say hes always been fascinated by noise and music and its influence. He also made a bird out of his own fingernail clippings and a large scale tree made of card board which i always like that analogy of the idea of trees made of paper, cardboard. etc...
Ann Hamilton from Lima, Ohio specializes in sculpture, but also used mediums from installations, photographs, videos, etc... A piece she is well known for was her tooth pick suit, in which a suit was carely woven with toothpicks in a porcupine like style, many of her pieces are thought to be sensual and often deal with fabrics and film. Much of her work doesnt influence the body in the way we are talking about, one piece she did do that does however was her mouthpiece camera taking a picture everytime she opened her mouth giving you a strange view of the world as if you have been eaten by a whale and are looking out to escape!
Nick Cave, probably my favorite of this list, is a fabrics/textiles artist who also specializes in dance. His frist piece was a suit made of twigs which he initally thought he couldnt wear, once he wore it he discovered it had noisy capabilities earning it the name sound suit. This started a revelation for nick and he kept going with it making several more suits. These influence or represents the human form very blatantly but in ways never seen before, the mixture of creative photography and motion (dance) just photographs so well and looks so bad ass. i really like the idea of the natural coming into context with the unnatural, like a suit and twigs, its an ironic opposite and i really like the idea of them harmonizing together. a short film that will completely fill you in on "sound suits" is below, check it.
He has many sound suits by now and they are just getting better, more wild with color and more perfected. Below are some other versions of his sound suits.
Matthew Barney : American artist, works mostly in sculpture and short film as his medium, between 1994 and 2002 he created a series of short films called the cremaster cycle, considered one of the best avant-garde films of all time. Barney is from BOISE IDAHO, rep. rep! He caught national attention for his idea of drawing constraints and drawing in weird places like jumping on a tramp, drawing up on stilts, silly stuff like that, pretty sick idea but not a lot of quality art to show, the finished product isnt much and that disappoints me because for ME its about the journey but more importantly the destination, i really enjoy the finished, physical product of your tedious labor.. this dude is friggin nuts man.
“I am a lonely runner, but I am a long-distance runner.” as said by Louise Bourgeois, this quote really stood out to me, i think i could be surrounded by ten of my closest friends and still find a way to feel lonely so the way i interpret that is meaningful to me. Louise was a french-american artist specializing in spider scupltures earning her the nick name spider woman, she also started making sculputres of betrayal, fucked up house holds, anxiety, loneliness, forced intimacy, etc.. ha yes many know the feelings. Many of these feelings were said to come from a traumatizing situation as a child where she found out her English teacher was also his fathers mistress... tiga tigga woods yall! Sorry but all of our parents do messed up shit, get used to it. And the spider above is one of my most favorite things EVER!
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Monday, October 25, 2010
Oh man o man sorry my dear blog, i have been freakin homeless for the past minute and during mid terms week, what a bitch. sorry i have neglected you but thats how its gotta be. Anyways, inspiration wise... i ran into an old friends down town last Saturday and he was wearing a hat he had colored all over, really bad ass. i wanna do something similar so i might go hunt down a white hat. I also think i will be starting a new painting that's really psychedelic and vivid in lue of a crazy night at the red room. atleast things are slowly coming back together after some several unfortunate events.
