Leading toward the Last Project

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ROT Installation

ROT: Mission Accomplished

Armed with only my cell phone, I tried to capture the fruits of our labor.

Not to be Negative, but...

My intent is not to be negative, but seems most of you are not doing your part. There were only four of you present to install the Faculty Exhibit. I ended up working on the installation and lighting on Monday until 9:30 PM, then finishing touches on Tuesday before the opening. It was part of your class responsibility yet only a handful of you came to the reception.
The Santiago Project presented itself, but I don't think any of you went to see the space. Although, looking at the comments on the blog I noticed there is interest. I am not sure if it is still an open offer.
Your second project is due this weekend. You can't expect the same few that helped hang the Faculty show to do all the work. This is a class project. You are not expected to be the artists, but you are expected to be the curators, as well as installers, and everything else. Depending on how it goes this weekend I may change the final project to a conceptual project, more similar to the portfolio project. Lets see... Remember, these are not my projects. They are yours.

Work still in progress

Description:
The piece is 24 inches tall, 12 inches wide. When it is finished, the mask will be secured inside the back of a canvas frame which is lined with text (song lyrics and editorial content). The edges will be completely covered with images -- I am still deciding which among those that I have collected I will use. I also have some found and fabricated objects that are part of the piece, and I anticipate painting, drawing and other final treatment as I see fit to convey the concept. Since nothing is permanently secured yet, I could not shoot the piece hanging as it is intended to be viewed.

ROT - Disenchanted By Raul Esparza

Disenchanted, 18 x 24, Mixed Media, 2010

well, i'm finally finished.

the other two drawings will be finished by this thursday, hopefully. 

they are 8x10 and drawn in the same style as above.

raul

Questions + project update

Hey everyone! Adrienne, Laura, Xiao (??? Sorry....can't spell) and...uh...Nate? Zack? I dunno. Thanks for showing up at the Faculty Show installation. It was loads of fun and pretty quirky by the end of the night. Laura! I owe you lunch!

Update on my project: I finally got all the footage I will be using for my performance. Went to Skid Row today. It was much less dangerous than the last time I was there (5+ years ago) but still just as depressing. I should have a rough edit to post for everyone to see by Wednesday-ish.

Just a few questions to the class as a whole. Will we be serving food + drinks at the opening? How will we fund this? Who will prepare, etc. Will we be playing music? What, who and how?

Also, don't forget about the Faculty Show opening on Tuesday 6pm-8pm! ((Is this right, Habib? I have the worst memory.)) The art club is usually there but more hands are always needed to help set up and clean up. Plus, you get hours for class. If you will be helping to set-up, be there by 5:30pm. Helping to clean-up, 8pm.

Lastly, in reply to Habib's email. I am all for the Artwalk project.

Faculty Show Installation

Adrienne, Laura, Sheika, and Xiao (sp) sorry I don't know how to spell your name!... showed up to install the faculty exhibition. Between the four of us, with some help from (...uhhh damn I forgot his name, how embarrassing... Zack? pshhh it will come to me), and a little chiding from Habib, we got the job done. Xiao had to leave a bit early and by 7:30 p.m., we were all kind of loopy and couldn't add 2+2, but we accomplished the task. I was so ready to go by that time that I didn't think to take a picture of the gallery with the work in place. It was great experience. Laura had awesome form with the drill!
http://art.lbcc.edu/index.html

Andrew Hahn - Closing reception & performance

http://www.wpala.com/index.html

“Paintings for Achillia” features three oil paintings that continue Hahn’s investigation of the female portrait, but here his ghostly cinematic and disembodied faces achieve a grand scale, and the figurative fragmentation of bound feet shows up in two of the paintings..."

We visited this gallery in Chinatown the day of the class visit to POST.

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Herbert Bayer a Austrian grafic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental & interior designer and architect.

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