walking around at Final Friday only two places reallystuck out to me. One of them was WSU Shiftspace. Upon entering the establishemnet I realized that this building was tiny. There weren't alot of people in the room and there was only about elven or twelve pieces of artwork in the whole space. The video that was playing was interesting because it showed what looked like to me stuffed animals in their original habitats, which was kind of ironic to me due to the fact that they were stuffed. The video also jerked around alot, which was quite unnerving because it looked like an old horror film whe it did that. Another piece that caught my attention was a piece by Landon Taylor, this piece was a collection of multipe photographs each showing a different section of one area and then placed together with the others to make a bigger area. What I found really interesting was the fact that he seemed to change the time of day in each photograph because there would be subtle differences between them. Overall that piece was my favorit. The second place that caught my attention was a place called Bedazzled. When I first walked in for some reason I did not expect to walk around a store. Everything in that store was beautiful. Each piece of jewlery use color in a different way than the last one. Their big thing was hearts by their featured artist Alan Fullrich. In the store there was this giant wire horse that caught your attention. This horse had teeth which was kind of funny because usually you don't see a horse with teeth. In the very back of the store there was a place where you could stand and watch people make the things that were out in the rest of the room. That was really interesting and I could have stood there and watched them for hours. Overall Final Friday was a big hit with me.
Laura Bearth
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Final Friday
This Final Friday I attended Gallery 12, City Arts, and Shift Space. It was interesting to see what Dale Stratman has made throughout the years. Some of his work had very interesting composition but some seemed to lack planning. I saw some work by Brooke Lyman. He did a really amazing landscape painting. The artist had materials to build on to the canvas so not only did his shading help to make the art work seem realistic but it actually came forth like cliffs would. I had asked him politely if I could photograph his work and he told me about his trip to Europe where he had been taking pictures when he noticed a no photos sign in a foreign language. The other works that I found intriguing was Brady Hatter at Shift Space. It was a bit disturbing but it was definitely unique. The fact that she used an actual animal's remains and depicted it as art to represent its death was eye catching. Final Friday was no where near as busy as I had thought it would be.. The Tangent Lab has a piece of glass with a projector that appeared to be a touch screen but in reality it had a motion censor so it was almost an illusion. I can't wait for summer when Final Friday is more active. _Adrean
Final Friday 1/30/09
Margaret Raymond submits comments re. Shift Space, City Arts, Beadazzled, Fiber Studio, Fisch Haus, Jones Gallery, and Go Away Gallery.
Ditto Ann's comments re the collaborative pieces at Fiber Studio. I also always enjoy Marilyn Grisham's woven tapestry and fiber fusion work. On her loom is a project in progress. Attached to the castle of the loom are several photographs relating to the subject matter and colors she is using to create the tapestry and a small color drawing of the project. I am a weaver/fiber artist and can appreciate all the work that goes into planning and creating a woven tapestry. Marilyn blends several yarns together on her shuttles to produce subtle color mixtures and variations.
"Noise" was interesting somewhat with all the mirrors and sterno fires but the "light show" and electric guitar just reminded me of the 1970s.
The Jones Gallery had the best live music. The space is a bit awkward and narrow. There were four narrative drawings of a small child from the perspective of, I assume, a parent by Aaron Hill that reminded me of childrens book illustrations more than fine art. All portrayals were simply done on a white background. All the photography on exhibit here was rather bland, although the color photographs of fire by T G Williams were more interesting than the black and white posed sets by L. Hill Harris. Because of the arranged quality of these portraits, I got no sense of spontaneous moments, character or intimate feeling like I experienced with the wonderfully composed and candid photos and thoughtful appreciation of the subjects shown by Dale Strattman at City Arts.
All of the pieces at Shift Space dealt in some way with nature or natural materials combined with technology. The most successful pieces there were Stephen Martonis' Cicada Data and B. Hatter's prints with dead animals. These were hung too widely apart from eachother in my opinion and I wanted to bring them all together as a series because of their shared similarity of background and subject matter. Cicada Data was the most unified piece there. It combined natural elements, man made materials and light and sound technology in a well crafted and considered fashion.
Fisch Haus was a bit too dark for me to take in all that was displayed but the steam and laser light interactive piece and the industrial sized rotating propeller set against a circular purple light spot, the humming sound effects and the musical instrument installation along with the casual and industrial ambience of the gallery space enticed me to stay longer than I thought I would at first. I always enjoy art that includes handwriting so the schematic drawings with notes were also pleasing to me. Everything had a solid and yet ephemeral quality.
At Beadazzled I was more interested in the beadwork than the paintings. I was so disappointed with these decorative and unspecial pieces I did not even bother to see who had produced them. This only affirms for me that quite a bit of the "art" seen in stores just does not exhibit the same quality of that generally observed in galleries.
This gallery crawl brought me to a greater sense of awareness of my personal preferences in art. I am drawn more to photography like Strattman's, fiberarts, ephemera, sculpture, collage and mixed media than to generally technically correct or carefully painted pieces. I appreciate craftsmanship in combination with creativity.
Ditto Ann's comments re the collaborative pieces at Fiber Studio. I also always enjoy Marilyn Grisham's woven tapestry and fiber fusion work. On her loom is a project in progress. Attached to the castle of the loom are several photographs relating to the subject matter and colors she is using to create the tapestry and a small color drawing of the project. I am a weaver/fiber artist and can appreciate all the work that goes into planning and creating a woven tapestry. Marilyn blends several yarns together on her shuttles to produce subtle color mixtures and variations.
"Noise" was interesting somewhat with all the mirrors and sterno fires but the "light show" and electric guitar just reminded me of the 1970s.
The Jones Gallery had the best live music. The space is a bit awkward and narrow. There were four narrative drawings of a small child from the perspective of, I assume, a parent by Aaron Hill that reminded me of childrens book illustrations more than fine art. All portrayals were simply done on a white background. All the photography on exhibit here was rather bland, although the color photographs of fire by T G Williams were more interesting than the black and white posed sets by L. Hill Harris. Because of the arranged quality of these portraits, I got no sense of spontaneous moments, character or intimate feeling like I experienced with the wonderfully composed and candid photos and thoughtful appreciation of the subjects shown by Dale Strattman at City Arts.
All of the pieces at Shift Space dealt in some way with nature or natural materials combined with technology. The most successful pieces there were Stephen Martonis' Cicada Data and B. Hatter's prints with dead animals. These were hung too widely apart from eachother in my opinion and I wanted to bring them all together as a series because of their shared similarity of background and subject matter. Cicada Data was the most unified piece there. It combined natural elements, man made materials and light and sound technology in a well crafted and considered fashion.
Fisch Haus was a bit too dark for me to take in all that was displayed but the steam and laser light interactive piece and the industrial sized rotating propeller set against a circular purple light spot, the humming sound effects and the musical instrument installation along with the casual and industrial ambience of the gallery space enticed me to stay longer than I thought I would at first. I always enjoy art that includes handwriting so the schematic drawings with notes were also pleasing to me. Everything had a solid and yet ephemeral quality.
At Beadazzled I was more interested in the beadwork than the paintings. I was so disappointed with these decorative and unspecial pieces I did not even bother to see who had produced them. This only affirms for me that quite a bit of the "art" seen in stores just does not exhibit the same quality of that generally observed in galleries.
This gallery crawl brought me to a greater sense of awareness of my personal preferences in art. I am drawn more to photography like Strattman's, fiberarts, ephemera, sculpture, collage and mixed media than to generally technically correct or carefully painted pieces. I appreciate craftsmanship in combination with creativity.
Final Friday from ann
I saw Adrian and Margaret from class tonight at Final Friday. I went to all the galleries on Commerce St, and Shift Space, City Arts and Tangent Lab. Has anyone out there ever made it to all of the galleries in one evening?
I loved the collaborative work of April Scott, Buz Johnson, and Charlotte Martin at the Fiber Studio. Johnson made wonderful vases, urns, bowls and pots from clay, then Martin glazed them in painted designs, and finally, Scott added fibers, shells, beads, and buttons to the vessels. The fibers were minimal and the results were beautifully colored, well porportioned pots with wonderful textures just begging to be touched. On the other hand, "Noise" at the Go Away Garage (in this case, aptly named) was tough for me to handle. A man with an electric guitar in the large room played very LOUD and at times discordant chords while whirling spheres of lights were displayed on two screens. I wanted to try to absorb the images and the experience, but I couldn't because the darkness punctuated with flashing lights and the very loud electric noise made it difficult. The artist's statement was about the some of the difficult and annoying feelings some noises create; so, perhaps this was a successful endeavor. The Jones Gallery had some interesting mixed media pieces by Kevin Kelly that included junk food in the titles. I really like the colors and textures in Cool Ranch Doritos and Aquafresh. Anyway, it was a fun and interesting evening. My son and daughter and their friend came with me and we all found something we really liked. ann PS: Check out the William Kentridge youtube video Monika mentioned.
I loved the collaborative work of April Scott, Buz Johnson, and Charlotte Martin at the Fiber Studio. Johnson made wonderful vases, urns, bowls and pots from clay, then Martin glazed them in painted designs, and finally, Scott added fibers, shells, beads, and buttons to the vessels. The fibers were minimal and the results were beautifully colored, well porportioned pots with wonderful textures just begging to be touched. On the other hand, "Noise" at the Go Away Garage (in this case, aptly named) was tough for me to handle. A man with an electric guitar in the large room played very LOUD and at times discordant chords while whirling spheres of lights were displayed on two screens. I wanted to try to absorb the images and the experience, but I couldn't because the darkness punctuated with flashing lights and the very loud electric noise made it difficult. The artist's statement was about the some of the difficult and annoying feelings some noises create; so, perhaps this was a successful endeavor. The Jones Gallery had some interesting mixed media pieces by Kevin Kelly that included junk food in the titles. I really like the colors and textures in Cool Ranch Doritos and Aquafresh. Anyway, it was a fun and interesting evening. My son and daughter and their friend came with me and we all found something we really liked. ann PS: Check out the William Kentridge youtube video Monika mentioned.
Schweppervescence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRFfJJjLpqw
While browsing YouTube, I found a video that caught my attention. This video, a commercial for Schweppes, uses ultra slow motion capturing 10,000 frames per second. I found the commercial interesting because it brings the focus to the water balloons rather than the people in the background. It is almost like these inanimate objects have more life than the human beings that are also in the commercial. I think the commercial does a good job at showing the beauty/artwork that can be associated with things in nature and the reactions they have to surrounding objects.
Daniel Rogers
While browsing YouTube, I found a video that caught my attention. This video, a commercial for Schweppes, uses ultra slow motion capturing 10,000 frames per second. I found the commercial interesting because it brings the focus to the water balloons rather than the people in the background. It is almost like these inanimate objects have more life than the human beings that are also in the commercial. I think the commercial does a good job at showing the beauty/artwork that can be associated with things in nature and the reactions they have to surrounding objects.
Daniel Rogers
Few things I would like to say,
The Fall is an amazing movie with beautiful imagery. I suggest watching it if you get the chance. The story line is also amazing.
A few artists that I appreciate are Cy Twombly and my friend Chris Trenary. Their pieces just suck me in. One artist that intrigued me is Alexis Murray. I came across her work on drawingcenter.org. You can view her work at http://www.alexismurray.com.
Tonight for Final Friday, I am looking forward to the photography competition winners photos at the Tangent Lab, and the work hanging up at Blank Page. The artist is Christopher Ware who was incarcerated in the Sedgwick County Detention Facility for seven months awaiting trial. All of the pieces were done while he was incarcerated. It should be incredibly interesting.
Check it out!
-Emily Ritter
The city of cards
The other day i was watching television and a lexus commercial came on and i saw this city sculpted by playing cards that surrounded the car. The idea was to demonstrate the smoothness of the engine. The thing i was captivated about is the time and patience that it took and to see it all fall in the end was just sad lol. Here is the link for more info about how it all went down
www.lexus.com/cards
RJ Carlino
www.lexus.com/cards
RJ Carlino
Thursday, January 29, 2009
The Black Blood Alliance comic
Hello!
Brooke, here, and I would like to share with everyone one of my online friend's comic. Back in 2003 Kay and I designed wolf characters(this is how we met)for a freelance animation studio. The movie(which isn't out yet) is called wolf. http://www.wolfmovie.com/
Anyway, Kay and I then talked about creating our own comics. Of course, I've been so busy I really never got the chance to start the art part of my comic, but Kay has gone a long way with hers. She has since paired up with a background/special effects artist who does all the background, shading, and certain effects for Kay's comic. Kay draws the wolves, and wrote the story.
It's an interesting read, and has some awesome digital backgrounds, as well as some intriguing perspectives. Check it out :)
http://www.theblackbloodalliance.com/ Click on the wolves to the left side to navigate the site!
Brooke 'Ochiba' Edwards
http://www.ochiba.deviantart.com/
Brooke, here, and I would like to share with everyone one of my online friend's comic. Back in 2003 Kay and I designed wolf characters(this is how we met)for a freelance animation studio. The movie(which isn't out yet) is called wolf. http://www.wolfmovie.com/
Anyway, Kay and I then talked about creating our own comics. Of course, I've been so busy I really never got the chance to start the art part of my comic, but Kay has gone a long way with hers. She has since paired up with a background/special effects artist who does all the background, shading, and certain effects for Kay's comic. Kay draws the wolves, and wrote the story.
It's an interesting read, and has some awesome digital backgrounds, as well as some intriguing perspectives. Check it out :)
http://www.theblackbloodalliance.com/ Click on the wolves to the left side to navigate the site!
Brooke 'Ochiba' Edwards
http://www.ochiba.deviantart.com/
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
intaglio blog
Hi Everyone,
I have created a blog for my intaglio class, so make sure that you are posting to the correct blog.
Thanks
MMM
Final Friday is this Friday!!!!!
Everyone,
This Friday is Final Friday (January 30). Some exhibits to check out:
All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Eat at Heterotopia 1714 East Douglas
Emily Houtz at Twist 607 W Douglas
Shift Space, group exhibit curated by Mason Monigold
Also, some movies to watch:
The Fountain (this movie has so much to offer visually, it wold be a very good thing to blog about!!!)
No End (a very depressing Polish movie by Krzysztof Kieslowski, yet it has a very well told story)
La Jetee/Sans Soleil (two AMAZING movies by sci-fi director Chris Marker)
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (this movie is a must see for its' visual and narrative effects)
All available on netflix!!!
Happy looking!!!!
MMM
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
I think there are several interesting ideas to be seen at notcot.org. I was especially amused by the Kit Kat advertisement.kitkatbench.jpg I think the artist(s) were very succesful in their use of texture to create the illusion of chocolate.
Jordon May
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
some links
As I have said before, and I will continue to say, looking at art is one of the most valuable experiences that an artist/designer can have. As you will learn, looking is a lot harder than it seems, so it should be practiced often. The following link has a lot of great artists/designers/and just a great deal of fun stuff: www.notcot.org
Also, follow the link below to see one of William Kentridge's drawing animations. We will talk about these in class because they are amazing and can teach us a great deal about the process of drawing.
Happy Drawing!
MM
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Blog Start
Hello Everyone,
Welcome to this Foundations Drawing II Blog.
As a general class guideline, everyone should contribute to this blog on a weekly basis. Your contributions should come in the form of links to artist websites/videos/galleries/Wichita art events or anything that is related to class content.
This blog will be a part of the ongoing conversation that we start in class on January 21st.
Happy Drawing!
MM
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