Poetics of Space

weekly artist Glenn Ligon - victoria

I feel most colored when i am against a harsh white background, i feel most camouflaged when i look the same as someone who is indefinitely different from me

weekly drawing- victoria

Keystone, the emblem of the pennsylvania state, with the soldiers creed embedded within it.

Weekly Drawing #7

I love interactive drawing!

Authorship Assignment

meg - weekly drawing

alexander mcqueen

One of the many things I love about Alexander McQueen is his ability to use nontraditional materials so well.

his show at the Met

DJ Spooky and John Cage-Victoria

Is it enough?

crit works victoria

Each image has something connecting the soldier to the world outside of the space their in. No matter where they are they always have something that will remind them of home and keep them safe in their mind.

Crit Pieces

These are images of my work from the critique. The checkerboard and pyramid-like sculpture piece were both methods of interjecting an element that would override the dominance of the corner 'point' (where all three edges converge), by which we can identify the corner. One method, the checkerboard, was an optical/perceptual approach and the sculpture piece is physical and perceptual, by both physically blocking one from approaching the corner and mimicking it - but reversed.
The digital image pieces (internet collages) were random assemblages aka samples from the image searches I did with randomly generated strings of letters. The grid format was not only a simple method of arranging the images but also referred to digital imaging. The later variations of this large compilation (462 images total) have their resolutions destroyed so to reduce the entirety of each individual 'sampling' to a single or few local colors, making both a 'digital' image as well as a reference to color swatch painting.

crit pieces

vija celmins makes me want to get my works to really smoke and or steam

life, light and gue

in response to a friend's dumb request

things I stole from mike dias

Jishua Petkar

I think this guy's stuff can be little uneven, but in general I like his acidic color palette and use of negative space.

Michael Krebber

This is art my Dad would make if he had the gumption to cut up surf boards. But I'm sure he might create some dialectic by saying when he was younger he used to make them. Surfs up, Pop. This one's for you!

http://www.greenenaftaligallery.com/artist/Michael-Krebber

Becca's Weekly Drawing

These two drawings started from a brush mark in my sketchbook. When I was using blue latex, I rested the brush and then closed the notebook, creating a mirror image on the mark on the next piece of paper. When I opened the notebook again, parks of the paper had torn off as a result of the drying, altering the exactness of the mark. I then went in with soft pastel to enhance one of the drawings, and the dark green areas are where the paint was torn off and stuck to the other side. The first picture is of the untouched paint mark, the second is with pastel.

The artist I am posting this week is Lisha Bai (checkerboard floor). This image is from her installation work at Franklin Art Works Gallery in Minneapolis, "RE:Vision". The checkerboard is made from cut tiles to produce the optical illusion. She also recently showed at Jolie Laide Gallery on N. Juniper street, although those were her cast sand sculptures, not the tiles.
The Drawing I posted is a new variation of my line webs/nets, but this time I was using curved and straight lines as well as erasure as a means of creating a line instead of merely taking an additive approach. I also attempted to further the notion of obscuring some of the net by using steel wool to soften the hardness of the lines in some sections.

Raqib Shaw

He uses enamel and moves it around with a porcupine quill. His stuff reminds me of Persian miniatures on a huge scale.

http://www.whitecube.com/artists/raqib_shaw/

Drawing Week 7 - Kate

4/for part 2

ARTISTS:

Makoto Saito (Left)

Raymond Pettibon (Below)

Gert and Uwe Tobias (Left)

Gerald Laing (Below)

**Ok, sorry formatting on these is so weird but I'm bad at blogger-ing (!). These are some artists that I've been looking at for the second project, dealing with collage and recontextualizing images !!