December 2010
12 posts
Collection Diary Explained
It has been suggested during many of my classroom critiques that there is a performative nature to the paintings and installations that I make. I have not entirely wrapped my head around what exactly this means. Does this mean that me building and taking apart the piece is more important than the piece itself. That seems like a very narrow minded perspective very much akin to the ideas of the...
Collection Diary 12-22-2010
Weather:
Occasional snow. Total snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches. Lows in the upper 20s. Northwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of snow near 100 percent.
Dress:
I wore a flannel Woolrich shirt, my orange vest, a checked wool jacket, a lined winter hat, and my mother’s double knit mittens. I carried my military ruck sack for stowing materials.
Course:
I started...
Tryin to Match the Thoeretical with the Whimsical
I have been having trouble. One half of my brain is really into this idea of theoretical artwork with a big bang. On the other hand I want to make artwork that everyone can understand and love. Where is the line here? Should there be a line at all? Am I just missing something that is right in front of my face?
Whatever the story may be, I’ve started to make one of my...
Inspiration & a trip to Chelsea
The Meca MFA students traveled to New York City’s Chelsea district to peruse some contemporary artwork this past weekend. Several artists really caught my eye as people that were working in a similar vein to my current thought process.
The two most impressive works were by William Earl Kofmehl III and Roxy Paine. “Dear Father Knickerbocker, I just Googled You” was...
End of Term Presentation & Feedback
Today marked the official end of work for the Fall term in my graduate program. I developed my presentation as a time line chronologically describing my Installation and structural projects. I stated how the work ended up where it is now and where I intend to take it in the near and distant futures.
Largely I spoke upon the idea of memory and individual history as represented through a piece...
Where Do We Go From Here?
I have been thinking a lot about different locations for installations or sculptural site specific works. I have also been thinking about the graphic heads as a a means of linking a history to the materials that I am using in the actual sculptural work. To enhance this thought I have also been playing with the idea of the use of more hats in the work, to make the age and time periods that the...
And Jenny Holzer Came to Portland
I had mixed feelings during the Jenny Holzer lecture last night. The woman does amazing work, had seemingly grassroots origins, and has been wondrously prolific over the past 30+ years. She’s made work for Dia Foundation, the Guggenheim, Rockefeller Center, and onto the Potomac River from the Kennedy Center for Performing arts. The woman is quite simply a rock star in the art world. ...
Thinking Some More about the Graphic Arts &...
There are 2 major drawbacks that I can figure with my work on found wood. The first is that for some reason I prefer to keep the edges and construction raw. There is something aesthetically pleasing to me about rough edges, but at the same time I paint over top of so many of the pieces that it would seem if my point were to emphasize the roughness that I would have missed it in the...
A New Installation Setting & Some Thoughts
Today was my final critique for the fall term. Last night I thought that I would just review what I had done up to this point in the term and talk about next term, but at 12:30 or 1:00 this morning I had the bright idea to try to re-install one of my feel good emotional signs and to try to bring the second head in the series to completion.
I decided to install the sign at the end of my road...
Installation Sketches
I’m working on a new installation based off of what I’ve learned from the first installment. The sketches are for very large constructions and I think that I want to create some sort of interactive piece with the next couple incarnations.
I am also speaking with neon artist, Meryl Pataky, about a possible collaboration on the next one! It should be great, though the impact is...
Culmination of the Trimester