One
of my favorite artists and my dear friend, Michael Macfeat produced a
series of "Trading Cards." This particular image is from a set about Lies and The Truth. More info can be found here.
Hello All,
Please
click the comments link below and post Ten Lies and Three Truths about
the art work you have been creating and your modus operendi. The
objective here is to carefully craft these lies. Remember, as we
discussed in class, to simply say "I never use red." is a thin and
poorly constructed lie. Your concocted falsehoods would be weak and
transparent if we were presented with images of blue and green
paintings. The objective of "lying" is to have someone believe
your story! When posting your assignment, do not indicate which are T/F.
The challenge will be for your audience to figure it out. Sample
fabrications can be found in the comments section below. Please format your response in the same manner. (no nick-names please)ALL students should post the Lies and Truths assignment as well as comments on the first group of readings by Midnight on Wednesday, 9/4. (To be clear, reading comments go under the "Vincent Price Video"...Lies go here)
The following students will be prepared to present current images of work and 14 copies of your Lies and Truths this Friday, 9/6/13. Upload image folders to the desktop of class computer as soon as you get there. Be on Time! Print papers BEFORE class, not during. All students will write comments and suggestions on the "L/TR" papers and return to presenting students at the end of class. (This will be our only paper transaction. All other responses will be digital.) Presentations will be followed by a discussion of Week 1: Writing reading assignments.
Presentations of Artwork & 10 Lies, 3 Truths:
Presentations of Artwork & 10 Lies, 3 Truths: 9/6, Week 2 - Group 1:
1. Stephanie Potter
2. Alexandra Kanzler
3. Yvonne Clark
4. Maeve Griffin
5. Katherine Blankenship
Warm regards,
Terri
SAULIN FROCK
ReplyDeleteTen Lies, Three Truths
1.My work is based on the film The Wizard of Oz. The black and white forms represent Dorothy’s struggle with life. The colored forms represent Dorothy’s transcendence of her victim life and entrance into Aldus Huxley’s world of color and undiscovered territory.
2.My work is a response to inner-city urban life. It is a metaphorical blossoming of hooker, turned social worker.
3.My work is a response to sound, movement, color, light and life experience. It is attempting to translate disparate emotion and form into a continuous narrative. The works are little vessels that grow together. They hold out what wants in and shade the shy lights that peek out.
4.My work is based upon 1980’s sit-coms. The white forms represent the narrative that the characters in the TV show full house represent. From left to right, the characters represent Tutti, Blair, Mrs.Garrison and Joe. They float through the flotsam and jetsam of the facts of life, as they lay anchor to what is important in this world.
5.My work is about the inhumanity of man to man.
6.In my work, I only think about what I can read, discuss, talk, and write about theoretically or critically. It is about the idea. I rely heavily on post-Marxist French philosophy. It has nothing to do with what I see. It is all a social concern.
7.“That’s why you listen to Vikki Carr and don’t touch me… a bride with no head…a wolf with no foot. Men cheat because they fear death!” My work is about the film Moonstruck, I am Cher!
8.These objects come to me in dreams.
9.Absorbed in creation, nothing else matters to me. I am a becoming Victor Frankenstein.
10. ...a becoming-wasp of the orchid and a becoming-orchid of the wasp
11. ...the aparallel evolution of two beings that have absolutely nothing to do with each other
12.Flipping, deleting, expanding, speeding up, slowing down, layering and distilling visual material into art pieces, I create artwork organic in nature and layered with meaning.
13.Although my process begins in sculpture, it develops into drawing (a backward play on the traditional preliminary sketch to final sculpture).
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ReplyDeleteKate Lomax
DeleteBlankenship
Truths/Lies about my work
1. My work is a driving point for a deeper understanding of my anxieties and depression. It is my therapy.
2. Religion is an important aspect of my work and is the core to everything that I do.
3. My work is thrown together and not thought out at all.
4. Personal life experiences form my work.
5. I talk about subjects, which many people can relate too.
6. I draw inspiration from oddities and curiosity cabinets.
7. I am interested in psychology and human nature. Life and death.
8. My work mirrors my own personal identity.
9. I am annoyingly anal about my work.
10. I like simplistic Iconography.
11. I take pre-existing objects and alter them to my artistic visions.
12. I take many happy childhood memories and place them in my work.
13. My work does not deal with my emotions.
14. I want to be a muralist.
15. I use a lot of symbolism in my work.
16. My work is interactive to the public.
17. My work may be fanciful but has dark undertones.
18. Abstract artists influence me.
19. I draw inspiration from mechanical substances.
20. I Objects mean nothing to me. I do not take art seriously.
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ReplyDeleteAlex Kanzer, Ten lies, three truths.
ReplyDelete1. I want my art to be about agriculture and how to understand domesticated nature through it.
2. My art is meant as an accurate image of my experiences of growing up in a modern-day farming community.
3. I work in metal because of a childhood obsession with volcanoes. I wanted to see a volcano, but I could not. The manipulation of metal became my substitute.
4. My art does not have to be well crafted and I do not care about craft and the long tradition of craftspeople.
5. My art ignores the value of the materials used. Silver, gold and copper are nothing more than materials with different properties and any value given to them is irrelevant to me.
6. My art is raw, unedited and unbridled. It goes on Jerry springer and yells,"whateva whateva I do what I want."
7. My art ignores beauty in favor of true grit, whatever that may be.
8. All of my art is wearable and designed to work comfortably with the body.
9. My art is the result of a feeling of great loss and the anxiety of change. I feel crushed beneath my own mortality and the lack of control I have over time.
10. My art is influenced by trends in contemporary fashion. As a jeweler my goal is to create a line of fashionable and salable jewelry.
11. At it's roots my art is anti-corporation. I am against the conglomerate taking advantage of the individual. Corporations are unnatural and do nothing but exploit and should be stopped.
12. I am really inspired by John Wayne, but also John Wayne Gacy. I am particularly obsessed with what happens when people mix the two up.
13. My art is concerned with being Art and I am afraid that my crafts will never be real Art. I have a craft artist inferiority complex.
alex, thank you for this list. i can't wait to hear what the lies and truths are.
Delete1. my work explores the relationship between Harry Potter and Spirituality.
ReplyDelete2. I do not take materiality into consideration when creating a piece.
3. Army of Darkness and Evil Dead 1 & 2 have a significant impact on my work.
4. I craft my own signs and symbols to be used in my works.
5. My performances are created out of a need to understand my frustration, anxiety and fear in my life.
6. My performances are made to make you feel comfortable.
7. I really look to and dissect romantic comedies to use their underlying messages in my works.
8. Kitsch plays a huge role in my object sculptures.
9. Some of my influences in my work are Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and Coco Chanel.
10. Exorcists and exorcisms rituals have no place in my works.
11. Stress and Anxiety are foreign to my works.
12. I enjoy hurting myself when I perform.
13. I am concerned with the viewer understanding why I am doing what I do in my pieces.
Yvonne Clark
ReplyDelete1. My art tends to have lots of bright happy colors that express happiness, love, and peace.
2. My art is meant to evoke national change in the heart of everyone.
3. My art is relatable to any and everyone. You can make it mean whatever you want.
4. My art is only for me and my happiness or depression, silliness or seriousness, etc. and not for anyone else to understand.
5. My art is not a self express of who I am or what I've experienced.
6. I think writing a proposal really helps my work become something stronger then it would have been then if I winged it.
7. I am not inspired by anything around me. My ideas are all original and organic.
8. I only make one kind of art. I hate experimenting. I only dabble in one type of art. form or material.
9. My art form is very structure. I have a plan in the beginning and I stick to it from beginning to end. I do not divert from my original ideas. From size to shape and color.
10. My work has grew to become more then something pretty You put in a house or on a wall. It's developed into something greater then a piece of wall art.
11. My art is never abstract.
12. My art is focused on what's happening now. It goes with the trends of whatever is current right now.
13. My art has strong geometrical forms and contrast, making for more masculine pieces.
10 lies and 3 truths:
ReplyDelete1) My work is about feminism and feminism alone
2) Surrealism and Social Practice are the two art movements which influence me the most
3) The amount of time I spend physically making each piece is much greater than the time spent preparing and coming up with the idea
4) I am genuinely interested in human beings and the human condition
5) My work is more of a self expression then an educational tool
6) Binaries always play a role in my art
7) I think of my work as very minimal
8) Traditional aesthetics are not an important part of my decision making in the studio
9) It is important to me that my work can be commodified
10) I decide what material I will use before I decide anything else
12) If my audience does not learn something then I do not feel a work has been successful
13) excess is a recurring and important theme in my work
10 Lies + 3 Truths
ReplyDelete1. My work is a reference to pop culture and embraces its vapid and self sabotaging qualities.
2. I am always referring to the Top Sellers on my Amazon Mobile app for inspiration.
3. Often times I read the obituaries and attempt to sketch the deceased as a way to begin working. The elderly and necrophilia being quite fascinating to me.
4. Nature is of deep importance to me. Objects found on wooded hikes, like broken sticks and leaves, are primary mark making tools.
5. Appropriation of stereotypical and marginalized roles is my source material foundation. Often I make assumptions that are interpreted as comical.
6. Food is of great importance to me because it helps me articulate the body and its cycle. (ie: Excretion and Appropriation)
7. Humor is a crutch of philistines. Interpreting my work as satire is a misreading at best.
8. Spatial arrangement has no impact on my work. Plop art is what I make. Plop art is what I do. Plop art is what I can.
9. Bathroom humor and puns are never on my radar. Staunch monoliths with heavy gestalt are the highest form of art. I take great influence from the cinder block.
10. I only make conceptual work because Anime-inspired Nail Art is very important to my alter ego. This has been a compromise.
11. I am concerned with the role of cats in pop culture, this is also a journey to find my own place in pop culture because I believe I am a cat. (ie: Gentle Paw Pads)
12. I like to do things once and never again.
13. The Internet, the great archive, holds the most important and weight on my work. I am fascinated by it as a plane of consistency: a flattening of all culture.
1. I work in textiles because they speak to the history of women.
ReplyDelete2. I am most influenced by Chris Burden.
3. My work draws heavily from Sesame Street and cartography.
4. All of my work follows a specific narrative.
5. My work is motivated by personal events.
6. My process always begins with a close reading of a film, which I then respond to with a piece.
7. My work always expresses an underlying optimism.
8. I spend very little time physically working on the objects I make.
9. I care less about the objects I end up with than the idea that motivates them.
10. Writing is an integral part of my studio practice.
11. My work is only successful in my eyes if it can be used as a blanket.
12. My work provides answers for questions I ask myself before starting a piece.
13. My work is directly influenced by coming of age novels (i.e. The Outsiders, The Perks of Being a Wallflower).
Nora Spillane
ReplyDelete1. My work explores childhood fears. The dark fantastical feeling evoked references the dreams and nightmares we have as children and the make-believe worlds we create or believe in.
2. My work is inspired by extreme natural conditions. I research phenomena like tornadoes, tsunamis, and rainbows and then work from their elements.
3. I try to create pieces from a world that looks as if it existed long ago but never has.
4. Most of my work draws from specific scenes illustrated in the The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
5. I am intrigued by Serbian sand art and it has a huge presence in my recent work.
6. My work is based on the medieval time period. The clothing styles, decorative elements, extreme amount of sickness and death, and traditions of the time are reflected in my choices of material and design.
7. My work reflects a dark time in my life. Evidence of my struggle with drug addiction can be seen in my use of restriction and muted color.
8. Metal is my chief material because it's is extremely malleable although it appears strong and sleek.
9. There are many Nordic influences in my work. The land and culture of northern countries like Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Finland inspire the mysterious and cold attitude in my metalwork and prints.
10. I would say my greatest influence is Ziggy Stardust, but most people wouldn't know that from looking at my work.
11. Much of my work speaks about the sea and underwater life. Growing up my family spent as much time as possible near the ocean and that familiarity has allowed me to use the movement, feeling, creatures, and colors of the sea in my work.
12. My work talks about womanhood. Particularly the struggle of being a woman but wanting to contribute to the world in the way that a man does. With direction, without distraction, stern, rough, and unimpressionable.
13. Relationship between the mind and body. In this I mean, the relationship between the wearer and the wearable.
1. Painting is very important to me. It is what fuels my creativity. It is the spinal cord to my body… of work.
ReplyDelete2. I hate digital art and that is the end of that.
3. Before I start my process of creating I lock myself in a dark closet. Wrap myself in a tight blanket . I pretend I am in the womb again. Its a comfort thing. When I am ready to come out, I am reborn, and ready to create work!
4. I take into consideration each brush stroke that I make. If the mark is not the right proportion, color, texture then it is just not art. Perfection is the key to happiness in my book!
5. I take my work very seriously. Every little piece is thought out planned, and planned again.
6. A wise woman once told me that cleanliness is next to Godliness…and by George I think she’s got it! I keep a very clean and organize studio. If my space is too crowded and unkempt then I simply cannot make-work.
7. Like Rome my work was not built in a day. It takes a great amount of time. After all evry brush stroke is considered.
8. Lying is second nature to me. I am so good I can fool myself.
9. I do not consider my videos art. They are a means of entertainment. And art clearly cannot be entertaining…Art is serious.
10. I incorporate astronomy and the inspiration of celestial object into my work. The viewer cannot see it but I know it is there.
11. My emotions do not interfere with my work. I can tune out of them and just continue working.
12. Textiles fascinate me. I draw inspiration from the various techniques used to create different fabrics. The layering and the dying just captivates me.
13. My work is not based off instincts and what “feels right” I have to deeply ponder what am I doing and why. I need to know what exactly each part of my work really means before anyone gives their input.
1) I care deeply about care and craft in my work. The details and craft of paintings really resonate with me.
ReplyDelete2) I believe in always doing work myself and not getting help making or assembling work from others. I like seeing the hand of the artist in a piece.
3) My work is transient and site specific. Any iteration of a piece usually only exists once and not for very long.
4) I don’t like to leave work to the last minute. I don’t assemble working the night of the crit and I don’t make snap decisions often.
5) My work is at it’s best when is it interacted with. I will go to great lengths to create an environment that forces people to directly interact with my work.
6) Dabbling in other disciplines and methods is not something that I’m comfortable doing. I like to stick to one thing that I’m good at.
7) I like work that is brash and bold rather than delicate. Ultra fine detail isn’t something I put into my work.
8) In my work, I don’t like to reuse materials. Once I use something for a project I don’t often see it any other way.
9) My work it comforting, I don’t like to induce anxiety or unease.
10) My work is most compatible with a smooth work surface.
11) My work has a weakness of sameness.
12) Photography in not an important step in my work. I prefer work to be viewed in person.
13) Installation is as important as the work itself.