Sunday, February 28, 2010
Exhibition Theme Ideas
ROT
Rotting, decaying, decomposing. The end of something OR the beginning into a new existence as a new form.
Rotting, decaying, decomposing. The end of something OR the beginning into a new existence as a new form.
Hive
- We as humans often function as a hive in out behavior.
- Another view could be the plight of the honey bee right now, or both of these ideas joined in some way.
- Maybe architectural projects could be used as well that have this feeling.
BETWEEN LINE AND SPACE or BETWEEN BORDERS
Drawing, photography or painting that is sculptural; or sculpture that references painting or drawing.
Portfolios
Showing of the class portfolios. Best few from each student. Showing the diversity of our class. How would each student design their section of the over all exhibit.
Millenium
Work since the turn of the century that addresses the technological advances of the time.
Simple
Simplicity can sometimes be harder than a large complex design. Lending interest to something basic, simple is a challenge.
Skin
The barrier between vulnerable and the outside world. Protection. Risk.
Industry
A collage of fabric materials hanging from the inside of a box. Everything decorated outside of the box will be materials. I will try and make pictures out of the materials surrounding the box (maybe a globe of the world or just patterns of some sort). It will be very colorful and with a lot of glitz. And this may change drastically.
Site
Work about place. Site-specific or community meditated. Work that engages the gallery space, investigates the gallery within the context of the school, city or area or engages the community.
Street
Graffiti and art influenced by street vernacular, tattoo and alternative subcultures.
Touch
Physical, emotional, spiritual. Superficial or deep. The connection between two forms or beings.
Hats
Literal, figuratively - people wear different "hats".
Reflections
Self-reflection, self-portrait, introspective/outer appearance, water, glass, m irror, metal > lens, eye.
Surface
Physical, to emerge, things hidden beneath the surface, face value, superficial
50 or Fifty
Units of time-space-quantities. 50 days, 50 hours, 50 seconds, 50 meters, 50 months, 50 years, 50 inches, 50 feet, 50 liters, 50 sides, 50 lbs, 50 oz, 50 whatever. 5 (five) 0 (zero)
Reconstruction
Starting over, fixing what is broken into something new. Building upon whats already there.
The Machine
A working creation, product of destruction. man's illusion of a forever moving clock.
Paint these hands with life
With our own hands we construct what is already here. With art we make life beautiful. We create, construct, built in better color.
Eyeline your camera lens
Focus on the sense of how you capture what you see through your eyes, creating a picture of meaning; or something so little but what you know is there you want to show others.
Everyone
This exhibition would be about ideas of exclusion. It would consider that citizens, hobbyists, athletes, artists, restaurateurs, musicians, politicians, physicians, scholars and scientists all seem to be specialists but at the same time part of a general mass of "everyone". Because of this, it might be considered, what is an inclusive body of interest or practice. Most modern people assume that "money" and monetary application create the respectable example of various masters and practitioners. Or maybe espionage does it better? Or maybe quality creation? Or a private and secret practice and meeting? Why would or should some practitioners be excluded? Is exclusion ever fair? Is fairness even regarded as a valid consideration when looking at "mass" desire and appropriateness and class? If fairness has nothing to do with various types of applicable ways and means, then does happiness? Rhetoric is still the fairest way to gather and display "everyone".
It might be interesting to create an exhibition showing how different "everyones" have done bad things to one another?
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
ROT-defined
rot
/rɒt/ Show Spelled [rot] Show IPA verb,rot·ted, rot·ting, noun, interjection
–verb (used without object)
1.
to undergo decomposition; decay.
2.
to deteriorate, disintegrate, fall, or become weak due to decay (often fol. by away, from, off, etc.).
3.
to languish, as in confinement.
4.
to become morally corrupt or offensive.
–verb (used with object)
5.
to cause to rot: Dampness rots wood.
6.
to cause moral decay in; cause to become morally corrupt.
7.
to ret (flax, hemp, etc.).
–noun
8.
the process of rotting.
9.
the state of being rotten; decay; putrefaction: the rot of an old house.
10.
rotting or rotten matter: the rot and waste of a swamp.
11.
moral or social decay or corruption.
12.
Pathology. any disease characterized by decay.
13.
Plant Pathology.
a.
any of various forms of decay produced by fungi or bacteria.
b.
any disease so characterized.
14.
Veterinary Pathology. a bacterial infection of sheep and cattle characterized by decay of the hoofs, caused by Fusobacterium necrophorum in cattle and Bacteroides nodosus in sheep.
15.
nonsense.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Windpowered, Walking Kinetic SculpturesPublished by jwbjerk
on
December 9, 2006
in ARTS
"Well, maybe there are new things under the sun.
Theo Jansen has built lots of these otherworldly moving sculptures, which when blown by the wind, actually walk. The one in the picture above weighs 2 tons, and can still be pulled b
y a single person or blown by the wind. And it has seating.
It’s hard to describe, you have to see them in motion."The most interesting part of these sculptures, other than the fact that they are constructed in such a visually interesting manner, is that they are powered by the wind. When you look at the video of Strandbeest, it looks either like some one is inside moving it like a puppet, or that it is some kind of robot. These other more skeletal wind sculptures have an airy nature that reminds me of fossils or ancient dinosaurs come back to life.
http://www.strandbeest.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcR7U2tuNoY&feature=related
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Man on Wire Documentary
Man on Wire is a very interesting Documenta
ry that I just happened to see today. The whole movie is about an hour and a half. The documentary seemed a little surreal since the main Icon of this documentary no longer exists. It's about a man, Philippe Petite, whose life was consumed by this idea...when he was 17 years old, he was sitting in an office waiting to see the dentist, as he was suffering from a toothache, he noticed an article in a magazine. It was an artist's conception of the Twin Towers in
NY, which had not been built yet. He took that picture and drew a line across in the shape of a tight rope. Everything he did from that point on was to accomplish what he believed the towers were made for. He believed they were made for him to walk across the tiny rope that joined the them. This is the story of his love for the towers, and his relationships with those who helped him and were considered his friends, back in 1974.
It's interesting to me that this man, although he may not have sought life as a performance artist, his life was art. He lived and breathed tight rope walking. Now all that he has is his rope. He lost all his friends. This movie reminded me a lot of the movie Wings of Desire because of the city shots. Also there's an interesting theme of life and death, and what it means for this man to live, and at what cost. It asks, "what would I risk my life for?"
ry that I just happened to see today. The whole movie is about an hour and a half. The documentary seemed a little surreal since the main Icon of this documentary no longer exists. It's about a man, Philippe Petite, whose life was consumed by this idea...when he was 17 years old, he was sitting in an office waiting to see the dentist, as he was suffering from a toothache, he noticed an article in a magazine. It was an artist's conception of the Twin Towers in
NY, which had not been built yet. He took that picture and drew a line across in the shape of a tight rope. Everything he did from that point on was to accomplish what he believed the towers were made for. He believed they were made for him to walk across the tiny rope that joined the them. This is the story of his love for the towers, and his relationships with those who helped him and were considered his friends, back in 1974.It's interesting to me that this man, although he may not have sought life as a performance artist, his life was art. He lived and breathed tight rope walking. Now all that he has is his rope. He lost all his friends. This movie reminded me a lot of the movie Wings of Desire because of the city shots. Also there's an interesting theme of life and death, and what it means for this man to live, and at what cost. It asks, "what would I risk my life for?"
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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Monday, February 1, 2010
MISS VAN' Street Art & Paintings
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Female graffiti artist Miss Van. Born in 1973, Toulouse France, VanessaBensimon started wall painting at age 18. She has gone to exhibit canvases in
galleries across France, Europe, and the US. She is an inspiration to the
graffiti scene for her drawings, paintings, and as a female artist.
Bergamot Station
Bergamot Station
Here is the link. Don't forget, we are meeting there around 10AM on Tuesday, February 2nd instead of meeting in class on Thursday the 4th.
Here is the link. Don't forget, we are meeting there around 10AM on Tuesday, February 2nd instead of meeting in class on Thursday the 4th.
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