Week 6: Fiber: Materials and Meaning

This lecture is similar to the sculpture slide show with Charles LeDray and Guerra de la Paz artwork. They use fabrics and clothing as their media just like the majority of the these artists in this week's presentation. The feeling I got from this weeks slide was one of a fashion design show event where all of the designers were showing off their works. Just below, I have an image of Guera de la Paz's work Sunt and Ma Ke clothing. They both use found clothing to create their work.

Week 5: Photography

This week's lecture deals with Photography and I was amazed by all of the work that was shown in the slide show. The main theme throughout the lecture is about how light is being used when photographing people or scenery. Gregory Crewdson and Jeff Wall effectively achieve this process and you can see in their work, Untitled (Ray of Light), 2001 and After 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue respectively. These techniques reminded me of a photo I took in Arizona as my family and I were going to visit the Grand Canyon. On our way there, we stopped to take some pictures of the Hoover Dam and I was able to get a very bright shot of the dam take a look.

Untitled (Ray of Light), 2001
'Invisible Man', 1999-2000

Week 4: Sculpture

This lecture really made me reevaluate how a sculpture can be formed through different kinds of media. I witness art piece that had: clothing, wax, paper plates, steel pins, Styrofoam cups, plastic straws, fishing lines, buttons, tar paper, wood, fabric, and even nail clippings. The common theme with most of these artworks is that they are earth friendly material (excluding plastic). When I was looking at Tara Donovan's Toothpicks I was immediately drawn to how this piece was entirely made from only wooden toothpick and this art work reminded me of one of my 3D sculptures I did last semester called Static Turbine. It was completely made from wood-based materials and I spray painted it with a metallic coat. I hope you like it!