Week 14: Installation

Sara Sze's Art of Losing, 2004 is reminiscent of one of my works in terms of layering:

This sculpture is made purely out of cardboard and glued together by hot glue. As you can see I have layered numerous square cardboards together to create a spiral staircase similar to how Sze installation has a staircase-like gesture.

Week 12: Street art and Graffiti

This week's lecture was about Street art and Graffiti. The lecture automatically reminded me of my adventures at the Wynwood District Art walk in Miami. It featured some psychedelic street artwork that I found very entertaining and comical take a look:

Week 11: Art and Life: Organic Design

I really enjoyed looking at the different variety of organic art from different artists ranging from Frank Lloyd Wright, Fritz Haeg, and Samuel Mockbee. Their work really inspired me to pursue a career in architectural design.    

Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water (Built in 1934-37)

 I always had a knack for uniquely built structures. Wright's Falling Water design exemplifies this with the layering of concrete vertically and horizontally all the while sitting on top of a waterfall.

Fritz Haeg, Sundown Salon Schoolhouse
Haeg's geosphere dome also falls into this category. The structure is almost reminiscent of the geosphere dome at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fl.

Samuel Mockbee, Glass Chapel

Mockbee's structure is impressive because of his choice in such a delicate material in glass. I can only imagine how his workers were able to construct this building without any broken or chipped glass.

Week 10: Identity and Politics

This week's entry is about Political Culture and Sexual Identity and lecture was very informative but not inspirational for me. However a just around this time a year ago in my Drawing I class at my community college we were fortunate enough to attend the Wynwood District Art walk down in Miami. It was a very inspirational trip. I was able to witness artists work on their pieces live and appreciate their techniques up close. While I was walking around different exhibits I stumbled across these two artworks and I figured that these have somewhat of a close relation to Political culture.


This is an artwork President Obama being held together by wire on the wall and on a make shift stand. Notice that there is a blue clothing outstretched on the ground. This represents his tie and what I found comical about this piece is that this artist is incorporating not only the wall but the ground as being apart of the painting. It make the work seem larger than life-size.








As you see here there is a headless man who is struggling to walk around with his walker while grasping a cordless gas guzzler. This sculpture is discussing the high gas prices that has affected many Americans who are dependent on gasoline. And how it is such a struggle to see the prices at the pump continue to rise.
This has been one of the many hot topics in politics.

Week 8: Artist's Books/Collage

In this week's lecture about Artist's books/collage I found that all the work exhibited in the lecture slides were intriguing. One in particular would be David Hockney's collage piece.

David Hockney's Place Furstenberg, Paris, 1985.
   
What I enjoy about this collage is how Hockney is able to use the grid method to effectively place each panel in an overlapping manner to create a kaleidoscope effect. It brings a different perspective from the original piece.

In the fall of 2010 in my Design Fundamental class I created something similar to a photo collage:

These two artworks required a lot of construction paper and an very sharp X-acto knife. For the first art piece I created a stencil of a spade with card stock on Microsoft Word and traced the cut out spade stencil on the construction paper then I carefully scored the traced spade and glued it on the panel as well as triangles and miniature arrows and rectangles.

The bottom piece required the same technique also I created a stencil of the Miami Heat logo with a card stock paper but I decided to cut out geometric pieces of around the white space where the logo and the team's name appears. It was a very exciting project and it is reminiscent of a photo collage where you have to effectively sort geometric piece around your preferred work space and bring it all together as a whole.

Week 7: Performance Art

This week's discussion about Performance Art proved to be an usual form of art. When I think of Performance art I imagined people dancing and putting on a play for the audience however when I viewed this week's lecture slides I was misled from I what I thought I would be viewing. Apparently Performance art is supposed to evoke discomfort and awkwardness. I felt that way about some the artwork that was displayed...






 
 (First Photo)
 Carolee Schneeman, Interior Scroll

Schneeman's work brought about an awkwardness to me. I find it very unusual that she stuffs a wrapped sheet in her vagina and attempts to string it out of her like a scroll. I didn't find her work hard to look at tough as compared to the next artist below.
(Second Photo)
Orlan, Reincarnation of St. Orlan.

Orlan's work proved to be very uncomfortable from the get go; she records her series of surgeries and is awake during all of this. I think what really made me look away from this piece was the fact there was so much blood being shown here and the look on her face that makes me feel very sorry for her. 

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.