hello, hello.
monday should prove to informative. i would like everyone to bring the 3 images they have selected to analyze by their respective artists. color images are ideal. in addition, be prepared to discuss with the class what you have discovered, as well as bringing your in-progress work you have created for INTERACTION ABSTRACTION.
please stay tuned for additional information!
in the meantime, check out fellow student kathryn d.'s contemporary drawing journal, lots of interesting things going on in there!
http://drawingiv.blogspot.com/
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
FEATURED ARTIST: JEREMY FLICK
deliciously abstract work by artist jeremy flick:
www.jeremyflick.com
www.jeremyflick.com
You Seem Not To Be Listening, 2008
Digital pigment print on canvas
40 x 32 inches
jeremy in his own words:
"My recent works are premised on the dull impulse of relating to the artistic investigation of the found patterns of tinted security envelopes. The works are not mere formal, reductionist exercises, but very self-conscious investigations of abstraction that signal both its history and poetic possibilities. Most of the envelope patterns I have collected (I believe it is close to 400 different patterns) allude to ‘painting’ in both their geometric and gestural aspects. Many of the patterns seem to reference specific modes of abstraction typically associated with High Modernism, though the envelope itself, the site of the pattern, is banal and nothing more than ephemera—transitory, mechanical, mass-produced, and not intended to be retained. I am currently interested in the idea that when removed from their common, everyday usage these patterns could be mistaken for serious critical investigations of abstraction. Through works ranging from traditional drawings and paintings, to meticulous, serial installation, the displacement of the patterns is one of mindful fragmentation, redirecting the attention focused on the pattern away from the context of the envelope to reposition it in the rubric of abstraction. By combining mechanical and digital methods with other painterly processes, I transform pieces of ephemera into works capable of symbolic and communicative exchange as a way to offer the understanding that even the most banal or trivial, and the most marginalized patterns and decorative motifs can become symbolically, even poetically, vested with meaning."
Digital pigment print on canvas
40 x 32 inches
jeremy in his own words:
"My recent works are premised on the dull impulse of relating to the artistic investigation of the found patterns of tinted security envelopes. The works are not mere formal, reductionist exercises, but very self-conscious investigations of abstraction that signal both its history and poetic possibilities. Most of the envelope patterns I have collected (I believe it is close to 400 different patterns) allude to ‘painting’ in both their geometric and gestural aspects. Many of the patterns seem to reference specific modes of abstraction typically associated with High Modernism, though the envelope itself, the site of the pattern, is banal and nothing more than ephemera—transitory, mechanical, mass-produced, and not intended to be retained. I am currently interested in the idea that when removed from their common, everyday usage these patterns could be mistaken for serious critical investigations of abstraction. Through works ranging from traditional drawings and paintings, to meticulous, serial installation, the displacement of the patterns is one of mindful fragmentation, redirecting the attention focused on the pattern away from the context of the envelope to reposition it in the rubric of abstraction. By combining mechanical and digital methods with other painterly processes, I transform pieces of ephemera into works capable of symbolic and communicative exchange as a way to offer the understanding that even the most banal or trivial, and the most marginalized patterns and decorative motifs can become symbolically, even poetically, vested with meaning."
Monday, January 25, 2010
LET THE INTERACTION WITH ABSTRACTION BEGIN!
in the spirit of our new assignment, "interaction / abstraction", read this compelling article on the resurgence of artists working abstractly...
new abstract art.
wednesday should offer some interesting discussion, (hint-hint, wink-wink).
new abstract art.
wednesday should offer some interesting discussion, (hint-hint, wink-wink).
Sunday, January 24, 2010
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