2/26/13 The object is not what matters. What matters is the occurrence or moment that produced the object. What if the production was a performance? What if the performance also involved the audience, also involved their participation to be part of and immersed in that moment? What if making the drawing was a performance and… Continue reading Artist Journal #9
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Exhibition Review: “Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting”
SCAD Museum of Art Curator: Melissa Messina The contemporary painting world is constantly experimenting with ways to discuss the history of painting through creative uses of media. In the exhibition “Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting” at the SCAD Museum of Art, a narrative is created throughout the history of fibers from Sheila Hicks… Continue reading Exhibition Review: “Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting”
Survey of Art: Tobia Makover
Image credit and property of Tobia Makover Wax Surface Mystery, childhood, concealment- these are the first words that rang through my brain as I gazed at Tobia Makover’s photograph entitled “Sandstorm.” In her recent photographic work, Makover has been experimenting with Encaustic Photography. Encaustic art is created using a wax medium that is heated to… Continue reading Survey of Art: Tobia Makover
Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 10: Death and Life
Past Echoes The chapter opens up with a direct and forward discussion about our current cultural portrayal of death, and how this is “endlessly in the media but in real life is hidden away in hospices and nursing homes…” One of the roles of art has always been to bring discussion and understanding of death,… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 10: Death and Life
Artist Journal #8
2-20-13 I created an intense large scale drawing during my model session Monday night. I’m not yet sure what to think of it. I often find that when something scares me, it normally means I’m heading in the right direction. When I draw, I feel connected with the materials, the paper, the surface, the subject.… Continue reading Artist Journal #8
Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 8: Painting Space
Experience of Space The chapter opens up with an important distinction between place and space: “place is where we stand at a particular moment in time, space is everything else.” Throughout the history of painting, creating spacial illusion was key to developing a believable ‘window to the world’ effect. In contemporary painting, exploration of spacial… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 8: Painting Space
Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction
Finding Identity Reading Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction in Painting Today was akin to a metaphysical trip through my own mind. I related to many of the key concepts discussed behind abstraction and its keen ability to retain “the integrity of the human hand, and thus the integrity of the human identity.” Unlike in Chapter 5,… Continue reading Painting Today: Commentary on Chapter 6: Ambiguous Abstraction
The Color of Collaboration: an essay on the history of pigment in southern France
Ochre began in its pure form, as drawing media in early ancient civilizations. This iron oxide mineral is an element of the rocky limestone landscape of Roussillon, the mountain town just above Apt in Provence, southern France. Its ancient use was referred to as “skin paint” and in present day is used to color “everything from soap… Continue reading The Color of Collaboration: an essay on the history of pigment in southern France
Commentary on DER LIEBE GOTT STECKT IM DETAIL: Reading Twombly
“The wall metaphor, the dirty graffiti, the emphasis on tactility, the sparse and additive configuration of the works…” Twombly’s work takes on a new concept of ‘human scale’ in which the markmaking more closely immitates the mark of an average person, even within the context of a larger space. “Twombly…exemplifies the importance of the little.”… Continue reading Commentary on DER LIEBE GOTT STECKT IM DETAIL: Reading Twombly
Commentary on Metaphysical Feelings in Modern Art
The theme of this article focuses on aesthetic, or purely formalist art vs. metaphysical, or art with meaning. “There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.” Beginning with the question of truth and beauty, even early religious art depicting realistically rendered figures in a space is viewed as more humanist then religious. Newman goes… Continue reading Commentary on Metaphysical Feelings in Modern Art
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