Final Portfolio/List

Final Portfolio Review [due May 3rd]

 

 

 

-          Please use the fixative for all drawings with significant amount of media

-          Erase all smudges and marks from each drawing that are accidental

-          Each drawing must include your name on the backside

-          Secure a cover sheet of newsprint/ glassine paper for each large drawing

-          Assemble all drawings in portfolio in the order listed below

-          Write your name on the portfolio

 

 

Portfolio

 

Assign. #5 – White on Black/ white pastel

Assign. #6 – Portrait on Toned Paper

Assign. #7 – Master Copy Self-Portrait and Artist Statement

 

In-class and HW studies (refer to syllabus)

 

-the most successful figure study/ life model - male

-the most successful figure study /life model-female

- study of a skull

- self-portrait with torn paper

- portrait study of a classmate

 

 

 

Internet Research Project

Artists I like:

jaeho jung Just do it! Digital print, adhesvie vinyl on painted wall 2010 Dimensions variable   Barbara Hatfield Drawing 10.31 Ink and graphite 2006 "12 x 9" Sergio voci empire and animals crayon, pencil and fibre tips on paper, enamel on pvc print, 4 shredders, wood 2009 102" x 70" Anna Schachte Watery Grave acrylic, silkscreen, collage on paper 2009 17" x 18" Felipe Mujica Sunrise and Fall Installation (wood, hardware and water based paint) 2005 Dimensions variable Artists I did not like/understand: Jeffrey Beebe Map of Western Refractoria Ink on watercolor paper 2010 36,75" x 46.25" Lisa Iglesias Ghost of a Season graphite on paper 2013 19" x 15" Evelyn Rydz 1000 years pencil and color pencil on Drafting film 2012 61" x 55" Suzanne Silver Drawing a Blank neon 2008 25" x 36" x 2" Tom Hooper Mr. Divescus & Maureen pencil, ink, and latex paint 2005 30" x 40" I felt like I could most likely relate to artist Mary Shindell because most of the work she completes is related to the desert the the enviroment we live in she takes bits and pieces from the desert and makes incorporated into her drawings.  It is very fascinating to me that they also represent what she feels is a topographical map view of a location.  She described using google earth  in order to better see the desert environment around her.  So technically you could add a computer into lists of materials because she used it to comprehend the desert even better.  The one I chose appears to be bits of flowers made into looking like maybe mesas with eroded spots or possibly barren towers of rock surrounded by desert sand.  Another one she has looks like cacti but I do not see a topographical map incorporated but then again, the more you look at her work the more you start to see.  This is another reason why I think that they are very nice works because  you just can not get enough looking at them.  I did not grow up here in the desert but I love it here anyway.  The landscapes and plants and sunsets are so beautiful that I can hardly resist them.  ALl of this comes to mind when I see work by Mrs. Shindell.  What is my favorite part about the actual drawing techniques is that the viewer can very clearly see the illusion of 3-dimensional objects.  You can tell she put a lot of hard work into every single element incorporated. I chose this piece in particular because it reminds me of ghost ranch which is a place I very much love going because of the natural beauty of the environment and the beautiful colors that it gives.  I also feel like her work is sending the message that things are not always what they seem, which is often under appreciated when people can quickly just move on to the next image online or work or art if in person.  In this day in age it is very easy not to pay attention and move away when an image or idea is too complicated but the more I see, the more I want to see of her other works.  It caught my eye because it likes to have texture that is popping back at you, when in fact I know it does not.  I would very much like to see this work in person just because of that very illusion.  Her work is also a reminder that these beautiful landscapes and environments are right outside our doors in New Mexico and some people have not even been out there to see it with their own eyes.  Her work and others like it goes to show how that nature is a miracle and that it is vastly under appreciated. Satellite 1: wildflowers, sand graphite, ink, Prisma 2008 22" x 30"

LORENZO ANZALONE
I do like

ONE YES GOOD

The artist creates tattoos on public spaces (skins) on commission. Prayers are written and covered inside the designs. High-gloss latex.

TWO YES GOOD

Ink on film

Justin Francavilla

His art is about competition between men, survival, in a more mechanized digital world. Humanity leaving waste and losing touch with reality. Mostly ink on paper without any mechanized help, by hand.

THREE YES GOOD

Alice Leora Briggs

Ciudad Juarez's violence. Her work deals with madness.

She uses different medium, the main is the sgraffito technique. 

FOUR YES GOOD

Bombing

Mirror Vibration

Kalika Gorski

Her work is from the aftermath of 9/11 attacks and the wars that sparked after that. She focuses for the most part on Muslim women and war zones. She uses watercolor and ink.

I don't understand

ONE NO UNDERSTAND

Sheila Ross

TWO NO UNDERSTAND

Nicole De Brabandere

THREE NO UNDERSTAND

Punch drunk monk

by Jason Watson

FOUR NO UNDERSTAND

Jason Noushin

FIVE NO UNDERSTAND

Jordan Buschur

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FIVE YES GOOD MY FAVORITE!

detail of inside

inside detail

Home-Sweet-Home #2

2011

10x6.5".

handmade paper, pins,

xerox transfer, tissue

"Refuge" a book

Pam Cooper

Pam Cooper was born in the UK but moved to the States (where she is working now.) She has studied in Nueva York at the Pratt Institute. 

What is the feeling of "home," or sacred/secret place. This place of tranquillity is supposed to allow an identity and a mental inner space to emerge.

She is concerned with childhood and how kids relate to a house and their surroundings; this is a reflection of society and the environment that will affect their lives. The house becomes a kind of prison under the pressure of social problems, the children are confined inside and are vulnerable. "our young girls today are coming of age in an American culture that celebrates dress, beauty and popularity at the expense of nearly everything else." 

Mixed media. Sculptor, printer, paper maker of hand made abaca paper. Drawings pinned on the wall. Metal allowed to rust and stain. Xerox transfers. Subtle xeroxing of pencil and charcoal lines. Stitching. Small wooden furnitures. Pins, thread, hangers, buttons, scissors and needles from a bygone era. Drawings based on old family photos. Constructions, installations, works on paper, books.

Her style is minimal, static, has got continuity; it's representational and abstract with the use of different medium. No use of color beside the rust. Closed form. Sculptural framing. Realistic proportions in miniatures. Values distorted by xerox and positioning inside the 3D spaces. Unity.

I would steal her simple approach of clear positive and negative spaces. Great variety in the use of different medium. I appreciate her combined use of sculpture and drawing. I love her houses, almost like a fable; they also look like toys. I love the scenarios and the intimate areas that she creates and that can be made my own with the imagination. I love that she made her own paper which seems to be made of leather, to be heavier. There is a view from the outside and one from the inside, outside of the sculptures/drawings and inside of them; outside of our memory and inside of remembrance and reevaluation. The characters go in and come out of the 2D surface, they are "alive." I love her clear (even though sophisticated) approach with a vast and multiple subject.

http://pamcooper.com/default.htm

Internet Research Project

For this assignment, I will be discussing five artists I admire, five artists I do not understand, and one artist, and then my favorite artist overall.

Five Artists I Admire:

Artist: Margery Freeman Appelbaum
Portrait of Women on a Swing
Mixed Media

I enjoyed this artist, because she had a very creative way of incorporating parts of the human body into her work. Most of her work is done in mixed media, as well, which I find interesting, and very non-traditional. She puts a collage of layers of wax and oil to create her work.

Artist: Tom Smith
Strobe
Acrylic and collage on panel

This artist caught my eye because of the bright colors he selectively and carefully used to create his composition. He uses both geometric and organic shapes, and his use of curved and diagonal lines give a sense of dynamic and explosive movement. 

Artist: Candice Smith Corby
You be a... I'll be a bear
gouache on wallpaper

I enjoy how Corby always uses furniture to create the composition in her work. It is interesting to see how each piece seems to support each other so well, it feels like she herself set up the composition and painted it. She also always uses soft colors to portray the moods of her paintings, and creates interesting designs in the fabric, which always looks like there is silky texture.

Artist: Simon Lourenco
Dita
Paper cut-out, collage

I admire Lourenco's craftsmanship, and his designs. He was inspired by the plant kingdom and patterns, which can be easily seen because of his unique and organic models. I think the colors he uses are beautiful, and his work is three-dimensional as well.

Artist: Devin Powers
Chorus
Gouache and pigmented PVA on kozo paper

I absolutely love Powers' designs and how he uses simple lines and geometric shapes to make something much more grand and exquisite. He creates form, and it almost looks like his drawings pop out to his audience, even though it is two-dimensional. I enjoy how his work makes my eyes move from one area to the next effortlessly, and it feels like I can look at his work for hours.

Five Artists I Do Not Understand:

Artist: Beverley Hood
Madame I
3D animated film

I did not really like or understand this, maybe because I did not see the actual film, but in my opinion, it looks a little bit unprofessional and unpolished. 

Artist: Catrine Thorstensen
Red Byte
Color pencil on paper, mounted on aluminium plates

Thorstensen's work was a little bit difficult to understand, because it was a three-dimensional drawing, however it looks very simplified with not much detail. Everything looks very smooth and round, so it was a little difficult to distinguish what her work was.

Artist: Chiara Zizioli and Alessandro Lorenzini
BENVENUTO A CASA
Wall Painting

The artists focused mostly on word and text art, which I don't understand very well, because I prefer mostly traditional art.

Artist: Noah Simblist
Untitled
graphite and gouache on paper

This artist creates many interesting pieces, but I found it difficult to understand what they created or what their statement was through their art.The artist claims it represents his political relationship with religion and state.

Sasha Kopelowitz
Leaning
gouache and acrylic on paper

I enjoy this artists's works, however I cannot help but feel like it is a lewd depiction of the human figure. It is hard to understand this artist's work, because everything looks so distorted.

Favorite Artist:

Artist: Paul Fabozzi
Corviale #1a
colored pencil on Mylar mounted on archival pigment print

I really enjoy Fabozzi's geometric shapes and diagonal lines that creates something that looks like the top of a town, in my opinion, if the piece was rotated. I also really like how he uses soft colors in all his works, because it gives a really soothing and relaxed tone and mood. He incorporates splurges of darker and brighter colors in segments of his piece as well, which leads the eye to different corners of the work.

Internet Research Project

Sonja Judkins

ART106.006

Julia Lambright

4/20/2016

Out of the massive volume of artists contained within the drawing center viewing program, a few caught my eye. My favorite mediums tend to be digital painting and design and watercolor. I tried to branch out for this assignment and get a good sampling of art using different mediums, themes, and styles than I am used to. My favorites still tend to fit my old patterns, but in this observation I saw many interesting pieces.

Five I Admired:

Davide Zucco

Liar

ink pen, water colors, oil on paper

2010

29 " x  21 " 

Burning colors trying to turn my blood black

ink pen, pencil color, oil color on paper

2010

30 " x  22 " 

While I do not fully understand all of Davide's work I admire the dark, abstract nature of it all. Probably my favorite genre of art, writing, movies is the story of existential dread. The creepy imagery and detached horror of the subjects found in his works appeal to that part of myself that is constantly anxious. It's a cleansing of sorts to see representations of my own fears in such symbolic and gorgeously articulated pieces.

Chancellor Page

Thanatos Tongue Depressor 3

Ink

2011

24" x  18" 

Forget

Mixed media

2007

60" x  40" 

Chancellor is another artist using the abstract and more conceptual to depict dark themes and anxieties. Page has stated their work represents losing oneself whether it be to drugs, grief, or even meditation. I really appreciate this concept as I have my own problems with self identity. I feel like I lose myself in these works the same way the people in have lost themselves to the surrounding chaos.

Maya Gatewood

White Hole

Graphite on Paper

2004

30" x  37"

Hanging Bubbles with Sheres

NuPastel on Paper

2006

26" x  40" 

Maya's drawings are extremely nebulous and aesthetic over directly conceptual. She has written in her artist statement that her focus is the vortex, a concept I adore. I have always been fascinated by massive astronomical objects be they stars or black holes and I can feel such enormity in these works. The eye is instantly draw into the darkness just like the pull of the objects they represent. Though I typically prefer art with defined figures, I greatly enjoyed the feeling of smallness before such daunting and yet peaceful objects. A single human being is nothing up against a vortex.

Amber Kempthorn

Sorrow

pastel, graphite, ink, collage

2011

44 " x  30 "

Untitled (Triptych) Panel 3

pastel, graphite, ink, collage

2009

30" x  22 1/2"

I absolutely adore the wide open spaces and fantastical themes of Amber's pieces. They capture my imagination and make me long to dive into the worlds she creates. Her use of color is also extraordinary and exiting without being to busy or distracting from the figures.

Aquiles Hadjis

Baobab (seen from the corridor)

Sumi and Shellac Indian Ink on Paper

2004

0 " x  0 "

Sotakun

Ballpen, graphite, fudepen and Ink on Paper

2009

0" x  0" 

Aquiles' drawings draw on feelings of loneliness and insomnia. The figures are alone in the setting created for him and the emptiness of the spaces around them draw these feelings into the realm of real experience. Many nights spent laying alone in bed or wondering around an empty apartment, these scenarios play out easily and fully upon viewing of this work and have had a profound affect on myself. I can relate to the emotions behind these works and so feel a personal connection to their creator.

Five I Didn't Understand:

Holly Boruck

5-13-13 Stravinsky's Riot

Ink, watercolor, color pencil on paper

2013

9 " x  12 " 

Her art is simply to abstract for me. I can admire the dark themes but it is at the same time too graphic and not grounded well enough for me to get more than vague impressions of ideas from her pieces.

Hector "Greg" Rubio

Blood Knot Archery Target

fabric, yarn, thread, graphite, acrylic

2008

58 " x  48 "

Hector's work is also entirely too aesthetic for me. I can't discern any of the meaning behind his designs and don't find them particularly visually appealing. Pain is the only thing I can read from multiple pieces pierced with arrows, but past that I'm at a loss.

Francesca Gagliardi

Make-up

Tempera on indian paper

2006

10,6’" x  10,6’"

While Gagliardi's paintings are very colorful and well composed, I can find no emotional or objective meaning in her collection. Like I said, the design is fairly well done, I just need to get an emotion from an artist to really enjoy their work.

David Leggett

300

Color Pencil, Ink, and Acrylic on Paper

2011

12 " x  9 "

Yet another case of not understanding the emotional themes. His work is definitely ripe with them, but as he caters to the black experience and has stated in multiple pieces that it is to culturally black  people his references apply I am an outsider. This is not to say I can't appreciate his skill or some of the messages he is trying to portray, I just have no personal experience to relate to his work.

Lorna Leedy

everything I can think of to fill this page

pen & ink

2008

10" x  10"

Her works are too cartoonish and not emotive enough for me. I get nothing from viewing them other mild curiosity to understand their organization but no real feeling or concepts have formed in my mind to make sense of them.

Favorite Artist:

Drew Bechmeyer

slope

oil, ink, acrylic on wood

2009

18" x  24"

10 abstract shapes on a shelf, on a dresser, in front of a window

acrylic, charcoal, crayon on paper

2010

40" x  30"

i was nothing good, but now i'm everything.

ink, pastel, markers, colored pencils on paper

2008

50" x  40" 

Drew's pieces draw me into his chaotic and often lonely dreamscapes. Each one seems to represent a moment or memory filtered through either the insanity of an overactive dreamer or an LSD trip. The original feeling and basic details stay the same, but both the visual understanding of the situation and the environment around core of the memory are either heavily distorted or completely lost. I feel something with each of his pieces, like I have been given a window into a moment of someone else's life and the emotions and thoughts they had in that moment have been displayed across their vision.I think I may have found not only a favorite artist for this project but a new all time favorite.