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These past posts have been very engaging. For those of you still not posting I should remind you all of the point of all of this. I want to make sure that you are actively looking/thinking about art and design outside of our class context. I want you to form a dialoge about ideas.

Also, these posts were meant to serve in some way as a grade booster. Each post is an easy A. Unfortunately for some of you, this blog now seems to have the potential to negatively impact your grade.

All of the log in information has been posted on this blog and I also handed out a sheet with the new information. I look forward to looking over all of the new posts.

Don't forget to put your name at the end of your posts and responses.

Have a good break and I look forward to seeing you all soon. Good work this semseter.

Robert

Lori Earley @Opera Gallery show in Soho,New York. In this show the artist Lori Early, featured in elongated female figures that were reminiscent of figures from the Nightmare Before Christmas, movie. All of her works were sold out prior to the opening of her show, many buyers appreciated her unique style. All of her female featured paintings contained long, strait, hair and large intense eyes.These figures were thin with delicate soft hands. In all of her paintings the figures have a mysterious, mythical quality, complimented by their leisurely poses all contained in ornate frames. This show was very successful and interesting. by; Ebony Mccoy

Victor Grippo
Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Cameron Irving
The artists Grippo had a show at Camden Arts Centre. He uses an emphasis on his metamorphosis from chemist to artist. His set ups of chemical experiments were simplistic. One of his set ups was a free stanging set of doors, that lead to a bench top displaying an variety of organic and culinary artifacts, it includes pieces of corn that undergone effects of heat. Many of his technical drawings and wall-based sculptural pieces played with the physical principles of balance and motion were Grippo’s best-known works, take the electrical potential of potatoes. Analogy 1, Second Version, or Energy, stood next to, a table covered with white linen that gave them the appearance of elongated altars with of grubby, sprouting potatoes. Elevating the status of a vegetable to a religious level. Analogy 1, Second Version, or Energy includes a DC meter in a small box, allowing viewers to read the exact measurement of electrical charge produced by potatoes connected to a tangle of wires suspended over the table.This artist has a incredibly unigue style that many viewrs at first would not appresticate. His requires a respect for science and deep thought. by: Ebony Mccoy

New York
Eva Rothschild
303 GALLERY
525 West 22nd Street

I was searching through Art Forum tryign to find something to catch my eye and came across a piece that seemed to be floating in mid air. It is an image in Eva Rothschild's New York solo debut, and "White Wedding" seemed to go over pretty well. It consists of an aluminum ring corseted by woven strands of black and white leather, and the piece’s thin leather strips drip to the floor like streamers. In all honesty, I cannot find anywhere online how this pice is hanging like it is. I suppose it's a well kept secret. It really has an amazing feeling to it and all of her pieces in this show create a really cool atmosphere. I highly recommend checking her out!

autumn oser

Reading Juxtapose as usual... (May 2007)

It seems there has been an insurgance of skateboarders who are artists these days, or maybe always but now they are getting the credit they deserve. The article that caught my eye was about Mark Gonzales who is a legendary skateboarder and also a film maker. I love his use of the medium as a message. His last video which was a skate video was filmed on VHS and only released on VHS. This I think is a proprietary message, a kind of f.u. to those who are dvd nazis and will only buy things on dvd. His next video is a futuristic skate video with a cat-tailed skateboarder and all indoor ramps with a set design of a city which he calls "Punt". The whole article is him describing the city and the characters that inhabit it. The idea of making a skate video wth a coherent storyline is very much an idea of the future, and I support him! He may bring skateboarding videos to a whole new level, and there is a distinct possibility that he will reach an audience much larger that just skateboarders with it.

http://artforum.com/inprint/id=12933
Kara Walker does paintings about slavery and the south after the Civil War. She has a really nice style where she works with silhouettes. I've always liked her work, it reminds me of kindergarten when my teacher made silhouettes profiles of everyone in the class on black construction paper. The article is about a couple films she made using silhouettes, and manipulating them like puppets. It sounds really really cool, I hope I get to see them. The things I've seen of hers have been pretty tame compared to how graphic and violent the movies sound, but I'm really interested in learning more about her and her work.

--Chloe Crawford

I went to the Philadelphia Art Museum, and got to see Jan Van Eyck's painting, called, Francis Recieving the Stigmata. It looks so shiny for an oil painting. I found out its an illuminating piece that uses gold. The painting is only 5x4 in siza, so it looks like an index card. Upon close examination, you don't get to see many of the intricate details the are in the background. I saw some pictures that were enlarged, and you can literally see horses and people in the background situated in a city!! So awesome! I also found out that there is another one just like this, accept in is the size of a sheet of paper. They look so identical. There is some conserversy surround the Philadelphia painting, for some believe it is a copy created by one of his apprentices. If you ever go to the Art museum, check out this tiny painting yourself.

Bethann Mullen

hello everybody!!

I had to do some research on Leonardo's Adoration of the Magi done in 1481. It was an unfinished painting of his done in yellow ochre and brown ink on canvas that was the pasted onto a panel. But anyway, I learned that Leonardo studied the connections between sight and insight, and vision and perception. It was interesting to look at all his sketches of how the eye looks at things and what is reflected back. He took what he learned from that and put in into everyone of his paintings. Each person in his painting is looking in a way where you can tell what they are thinking. Also Leonardo thought out exactly where each person sat in each painting, they are spatially organised according to the perceptions of the actors and their degrees of enlightenment. (There is a common triangle made by people in his paintings which represents that they are the "most enlightened.") If you look at the painting the man at left is supposed to be looking within. The young man at the right is suppposed to show that he is possesing less knowledge than the man on the left, and he looks without. We all already knew Leonardo was pretty crazy but i just figured i would let you know how crazy he was, and how purposeful everything was in his paintings. I know i don't put that much time into people's eyes when i draw them.


Jaclyn Garvey