Nicole's 6th Post

Things have started to slow down a little. On the bright side, my ink pieces are almost complete! I just need to finish mounting the last one.

My digital pieces are coming along slowly, but I feel confident that they'll be near completion fairly soon.

Schai Bilger -Current Works/Ideas

                                   

        

   

    

Link to GIF file: https://ello.co/schailain/post/wjwzlt3lgvq00jsrdrxhww

My work is an exploration of the human experience, creating commentary on issues pertaining to social justice, military, feminity, and religion. As I have developed as an artist I found it challenging to only put myself into a single category or box when it comes to creating work. I never have a solid focus on any single message or idea I want to convey; but rather, think, talk, and act on the issues of the world around me as they occur. My work and ideas constantly evolve depending on what is happening in the moment. I am thinking of creating an installation or interactive work that I will elaborate on later. Sculptures will build off of ideas I created previously. Currently my work includes painting, gif (which I want to create as its own series), and digital posters. 

kendyls week something

heres the progress ive made since last critique

Kayla- Something or Another

A haiku:

The artist's road block

Stream of consciousness dammed

What am I doing?

Bree Pt. 3 - Nov. 8th Edition.

Second blog post for the night. Sooooooo. I have altered some of the eye photographs. I have an obsession with eyes when exposed to bright sunlight. The colors that are brought out are some beautiful colors and it shows the texture in the iris and just how could you not love it? So to make my series different, I changed some of the cropping in the eye photos and I dodged the iris' but only the iris and lowered the rest of the exposure, giving almost a creepy sort of unsettled vibe. This was just an experiment while playing around with Photoshop while thinking about what I could do differently and I actually really like the outcome. I am still playing around with the skin pictures and might have to end up doing some re-shoots but ya know, it happens and it's all good. Anyways, here is some edited photographs from the eye series and I am still in the process of editing and re-shooting the skin series. I also might have a side project that I am going to start may decide to put it in the senior show possibilities folder, but that's a surprise for another time. Goodnight!

Bree Pt. 2 - A review of the last several weeks.

Alright y'all. I am sure I am not the only one to say this but this semester is whooping my butt like no tomorrow. Any more I barely get more than one day off of work a week and adding the course load of all my other demanding classes, I feel like I am drowning. But, nonetheless, I persist.
 A few weeks ago I changed my idea from the dreams, phobias, and philias over to two mini series: SKINtimate and EYEdentity. The basis of SKINtimate is that there are defining factors of someone that is not in their personality. I wanted to focus on this part of them that, at the end of the day, you cannot wash off. Things like tattoos, birthmarks, scars, stretchmarks, everything that cannot just be wiped off like makeup. These marks are forever on your skin, with the exception of some tattoos after laser removal. When you think of these physical features, sometimes you don't always think of these things as a defining factor, but they are the most permanent one of all other than the eyes.
This brings me to the other mini series: EYEdentity. There are photos previously seen of people from the tip of the nose up and just with a set of eyes and some eyebrows, that is all the information your brain needs to instantly know who that person is if you knew them prior. I wanted to take this idea and play around with it in reference to a previous portrait I did in Photo 3 with my friend Aaron (included). I wanted to focus mostly on the pure fact that with such minimal information, your brain can instantly recognize someone. BOOM. Isn't that weird. Well, here are some photographs I had so far as of October 23rd.

Hattie's 4th Post

I have been working on my artist statement lately, it started as word vomit but I’ve been cleaning it up and condensing it to be precisely what I want, but it focuses a lot on me and how I’ve been feeling juxtaposed with the work I create in a desire to be liked. This is getting to be more and more of an exploration in letting go for me, and I have created some pieces that I’m actually starting to feel good about. I’ve been working with double exposures and mixing that with alternative processing, and Andreas spent several hours in the darkroom with me helping me experiment and that has really fuled me. Also, I have been working on a 3D piece where I’ve been folding a book and am creating a design. I should also have some self-portraits that I've been working on for photo class but have turned into a personal project about how I feel about the craziness that is my life currently. Can't wait to see everyone's stuff at critique!

Here's a quote from Helmut Newton whose show I got to see on the NYC trip which was super exciting to see!

Minh Ng. 5th Blog

Nam's 5th post

Since the last critique, I have been experimenting with some different directions. The concept of lost perks gradually lost its appeal and I even almost forgot about it at one point. Though plainly humorous at its core, the idea constantly borderlines on demeaning. Since I don't have a strong relationship with the blind community, keeping track of potential sentiments has appeared increasingly difficult.

A following discussion with my adviser provided a fresh perspective on the mismatched socks poster, eventually sparking a new conceptual idea: Now with Lookout, the blind are more aware of the world, and thus if something like mismatching socks happens, it is a deliberate decision rather than a mistake. So instead of saying "no, you just lost your perks," the new ideas below say "hey, you can now do what used to be perks of the sighted."

Then another direction: Things that blind people no longer need to rely on, are now treated differently.

11/8- OK

Hi guys,
one more blog of process for today,
 I do not have finished work, everything is half done.
What I started was the second half of my project which is more portraits of me and parts of my body(like hands) and began to use them for my main project.
Currently working on a design for my frame that I will be using, I finally did some prints to test out the project and what I have so far.
So I do not have anything to show at the moment but I will have for critique. Until next week!

Helen Ross November 8

Since the last time we've had a critique I have done 4 more body paintings. When thinking about the critique I needed to work a lot harder on my thesis statement so hopefully it will also help my art as well. I have tried painting of different places on the body. With this I want to create a ying and yang effect with body art. My preliminary idea was emotion through art which I did think that I captured however I want to create opposite end of the spectrum of emotion for the paintings. A piece of art work will have two in it that create a cohesive one.

Reb5 Influences

For the last few months I have been collecting a running list of influences for my work....

Here they are:

Self portrait assignment-

Cindy Sherman: I love Shermans work. She has a video on Art21 titled "Characters" that I have watched numerous times and used as a huge influence for my self portraits. She uses all odds and ends (such as fake press on toenails) as accessories for her work. This is not about a fantacy. People think that Shermans work in about her wishing to be a certain image, but she thinks of it more as a growth from her own dreams and emotions.  She finds it as a "preformance" Much like the controvercy behind my heavenly headpeace and religion, Sherman had depicted herself in blackface. 

https://art21.org/watch/extended-play/cindy-sherman-characters-short/

Gertrude Inturbide:  She photographed social injustist of the leftist parties in Mexico and had her works featured at the Frida Kahlo Museum in  Mexico City (she even shot in Kahlo's bathroom).

Her subjects spoke volumes without eyecontact which was extremely intreaguing to me. 

https://blog.nmwa.org/2011/03/17/photographer-graciela-iturbide-capturing-the-spirit/

Mary Ellen Matthews: 

Matthews always was one of my favorite photographers and I think its because her photos are so commercial and whimsical, which is exactly what I love. 

I always reflect on Matthew's work for ideas in props and facial expressions. 

https://copiousmanagement.com/mary-ellen-matthews

Underwater Assignment (photo/video)-

Katy Grannan in "San Francisco Bay Area":

She tells how she likes to go places and shoot places in which she has no control. Her objective is to create "beautifully unsettling images". 

She also did a bunch of Self Portraits.... Check out the series "Boulevard". Extremely raw and unposed but it made me realize that I wanted posed imaged. 

“Discomfort is a really important feeling, and it might help you recognize some of your own limitations and the way you see the world. Or just the fact of other possibilities.”

Katy Grannan

Vimeo Influence Link:

https://vimeo.com/49012521

^ flowyness is amazing, music, not so much. 

Parroccini 5

Paintings are developing! I have decided to cut two paintings: the one of my mom by the water and the one of my parents by the water with horses behind them. They just are not clicking well. I now have two that are ready to be mounted. I am also struggling with the colors of the acrylic pours not matching the oil paintings. I need to keep pouring and keep trucking on.