Post 8

This is my illustration for text piece for the last project. I used the Cheyenne creation story about how the world was built on the back of Grandmother turtle using a piece of clay retrieved from the bottom of the ocean by a small bird called a coot, after others such as the snow goose had failed. This story holds meaning for me because I really love the idea of world being alive. I tried not just to illustrate this but to give it energy through the use of lively patterns.

This is the text piece using an excerpt from the story reading "Let the earth be known as our Grandmother and let the Grandmother who carries the earth be the only being that is at home beneath the water or within the earth or above the ground, the only one who can go anywhere by swimming or walking as she chooses." I tried to make the words look like roots or plants in a way that you couldn't tell weather it was on land, be neath it or under the sea as it so states.

This is one of my weekly drawings that is a tatoo design for a friend.

This is another weekly drawing, where I just kind of let my mind wander and make what it pleases without purpose.

This a drawing that I'm in the process of working on about my anxieties toward sickness. I'v been relatively sick this semester and it's beginning to bring back memories of when I was younger and was ether always sick or in the hospital for major surgeries and was not often allowed to leave my house or go out side , save school if I was healthy enough to go.

Mariel VI

These first four are additional pieces made for our 'Read it and Weep' assignment. 

This is my drawing for the week. 

These are the second set of collages I created for our newest 'Photorealism' assignment. 

Post IX

Here is another quick, strange self-portrait I did recently in pencil.

Bruce Nauman is a contemporary artist who has worked in an impressive variety of mediums and styles and focuses on themes of the psychology of the artist and the practice of art making itself. I'm interested in similar themes and I would like to continue to research and learn about this artist.

Post VIII

I was told during a critique last year that my self portraits are my most powerful and psychological pieces and I've seem to forgotten that because I haven't drawn myself much lately... but I want to start making frequent self-portraits again... this was a quick fifteen-twenty second gesture to start me off.

Here are some paintings by Edvard Munch, the 19th/20th Century artist who is most famous for his painting "The Scream". In his early life he was often consumed with anxiety and this problem was reflected in much of his work. He made a decent amount of self portraits as well.

Jordan Post 8

This is a piece by artist Chris Jordan entitled "Barbie Boob Job" 32,000 barbies arranged to depict an image of boobs.  32,000 is the number of breast surgeries performed monthly in the US. I am traumatized by boob jobs, let alone the thought of getting boobs.. or more boobs for that matter. This is a horrifying piece to me. Many older women I know endured a boob job and I always wondered what the mentality was behind it, why they would want these balls of fat that always get in the way and need concealing. The content to me is puzzling.

I don't know the photographer. Childhood dolls and media images probably put the above into effect to a certain extent or the opposing effect.

Here is my drawing for the week, it was inspired by Eduard Gorey. Its a cake done with marker on a thin white sheet of fabric.

Jordan Post 7

Eesh... this is the work of a British artist, Ingrid Berthon-Moine. The first picture is a woman wearing her own menstural blood as lipstick. The artist declares this "Menstrual Activism" stating, "Menstrual activism certainly isn’t new. In 1970, in The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer memorably wrote that “if you think you are emancipated, you might consider the idea of tasting your own menstrual blood – if it makes you sick, you’ve a long way to go, baby”. I do not find this comfortable, however it is a medium that caught my attention.

Artist Lani Beloso has a problem called menorrhagia, where she has 3 times heavier periods and painful. A GIRLS WORST NIGHTMARE! She claims to combat this problem by making period blood art.. Gross.

 Im unsure of the photographer but this representation defines how I feel about periods. Uncomfortable and disturbing. A part of puberty I find myself cursing myself for every 28 days. :(

Below is a picture of my last project using Text with art.

Post for March 27th

GERHARD RICHTER: THE DAY IS LONG

 response:

I think that throughout our academic journeys as artist and along with art theory and process of skill that we learn through the years the interview made me think or or rather reminded me of the importance of a more intangible and emotive quality of the artist in relation to their work. I think its important not to forget the memories and experiences that ultimately shape who were are and and our perception of the world we experience as both artist and people. 

Here are my collages for the current drawing assignment, I haven't worked with collages in a while and the last time I did it was in a more ambiguously abstract response. The Images are from newspaper and my reference folders and sketch books that I use for my drawings and paintings. 

Featured artist 

Kymia Nawabi was recently interviewed in contemporary art magazine Blue Canvas  she does a few different mediums extending to sculpture however her drawings deal with line and texture powerfully.  

http://kymianawabi.com/

Jason Moorer - Post X: Dean Monogenis and Daily Drawing

Dean Monogenis is one of my favorite contemporary artists. When I first starting investigating exterior and interior spaces, I really studied his work and concepts. In his paintings he highlights architectural relationships with natural elements such as mountains and landscapes as well as formal qualities like line, texture and form. He creates these “fantasy, utopia environments” like high rise condos at the foot of a mountain, which are inspired by the sites he sees in his travels. Monogenis mentions that he is interested in “exploring the awkward beauty inherent in development and decay.” His processes include stencils, working on wood panels, and graphic design elements. He challenges space and depth in many of his works, usually with a flat surface juxtaposed with an area of dimension. I enjoy his works because I feel like he has successfully investigated concepts that go beyond just aesthetically pleasing formal qualities of architecture; his forms say something much more, something that many do not consider when looking at buildings or industrial landscapes like factories. He develops a whole new consideration for the forms. I also really enjoy his color and texture relationships and how many of his works look like collages from a variety of different materials.

I made these collages based on interior design concepts from a book published in I believe the early 1970s, late 1960s. I wanted to juxtapose material, texture and color in these collages. Some of the paper had textures that gave the illusion of depth and I liked how viewers would touch the collages. Some are unorthodox, like having textured wallpaper and a “flat” couch, while others were just addressing color concepts. For my collages for drawing, I incorporated Monogenis’ work but added elements to give the illusion of space as well as juxtapose interior and exterior spaces.

Post 7 and 8

I have yet to get a photo of my other text based drawing since it has been in the studio and its not too often i bring my giant camera in. But here is the one which included text and reads "Baba Yaga", on of many versions of an old Russian Story.

Here are my drawings for the past two weekly drawings:

Artist: Leonor Fini

Fini was a Surrealist painter, although she claimed she was not. I have been researching her for Les Amis de Paris and enjoyed more than any other research paper I have done. She was very independent and a kick ass woman. She also had about 23 Persian cats at one point. 

Another artist that I believe some of you might be aware of ( Her images come up in many google searches) is Patricia Piccinini 

Her work is about the ethics of science and how technology impacts her life.