Whew, almost forgot about this post! Better late than never, I hope.
In watching my critique video from this semester, I noticed that I still seem small and defensive standing next to my work. However, I did notice some positive changes as well. I feel better about the work I'm creating this semester (I've even been excited most of the time), and I think it shows. I appeared to be a lot happier about taking suggestions and hearing what everyone had to say about my collages this time, and some of my nervous habits (oh the lip biting!) subsided a little bit.
Again, I found the critique video to be very helpful for working on my speaking skills and shyness. Having the video also proved to be a useful tool for retaining all of the information I was given during critique this semester.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Lecture: Ted Noten
I had the privilege of attending Ted Noten's lecture about his jewelry design career on Tuesday. Noten is a Dutch artist who believes that jewelry is anything we wear or carry on our bodies. His work is very conceptual, yet simple at the same time, following his amusing logic and curious thoughts about the world around him.
The title for the first portion of the lecture was "Once a bricklayer, always a bricklayer." Noten grew up working in his father's brick making factory, which is where he said he first realized that he enjoyed working with his hands. He was expected to follow in his father's footsteps by taking over the factory, but grew bored with the repetitive pattern of bricklaying and began making jewelry at the age of 24.
Of his art school experience, Noten said that he originally struggled with the conceptualization of his work explaining that, "When you make a move with your hands, you have to explain to the art teacher why you did it." As a result, his first concepts originated from historical facts that he translated into jewelry form.
More recently, Noten seems to have absolutely no issue with conceptual thinking. In the last few years, Noten has created quite an interesting body of work. His concepts shifted towards things happening directly around him when he started making the "Lady-K" bags. This series is a group of purses made from acrylic-encased weapons - a response to the violence that he saw happening in the world.
Noten is currently working on a new series, titled "Haunted by 36 Women." For this body of work, Noten chose to depict various female archetypes through different animals and objects in his jewelry designs. Some of the pieces that he showed at the lecture included "The Ice Cream Girl," "The Girl Next Door," and "Miss Piggy." This series is being created by huge sketches Noten puts together of life-size objects, that are then 3D printed into jewelry-size miniatures. This process results in beautiful detail and life-like quality in every piece.
Some of my favorites from Ted Noten's portfolio are pictured below. To learn more about him and his processes, please visit his website here.
Ted Noten, Pig Bracelet from Haunted by 36 Women
September 2009
Ted Noten, Mercedes Benz Brooches for Dutch Fashion Awards
November 2007 and 2008
Ted Noten, Lady K Bag Nr. 4
2007
Ted Noten, Lady-K-Bag
2004
Ted Noten, Murdered Innocence
2005
The title for the first portion of the lecture was "Once a bricklayer, always a bricklayer." Noten grew up working in his father's brick making factory, which is where he said he first realized that he enjoyed working with his hands. He was expected to follow in his father's footsteps by taking over the factory, but grew bored with the repetitive pattern of bricklaying and began making jewelry at the age of 24.
Of his art school experience, Noten said that he originally struggled with the conceptualization of his work explaining that, "When you make a move with your hands, you have to explain to the art teacher why you did it." As a result, his first concepts originated from historical facts that he translated into jewelry form.
More recently, Noten seems to have absolutely no issue with conceptual thinking. In the last few years, Noten has created quite an interesting body of work. His concepts shifted towards things happening directly around him when he started making the "Lady-K" bags. This series is a group of purses made from acrylic-encased weapons - a response to the violence that he saw happening in the world.
Noten is currently working on a new series, titled "Haunted by 36 Women." For this body of work, Noten chose to depict various female archetypes through different animals and objects in his jewelry designs. Some of the pieces that he showed at the lecture included "The Ice Cream Girl," "The Girl Next Door," and "Miss Piggy." This series is being created by huge sketches Noten puts together of life-size objects, that are then 3D printed into jewelry-size miniatures. This process results in beautiful detail and life-like quality in every piece.
Some of my favorites from Ted Noten's portfolio are pictured below. To learn more about him and his processes, please visit his website here.
Ted Noten, Pig Bracelet from Haunted by 36 WomenSeptember 2009
Ted Noten, Mercedes Benz Brooches for Dutch Fashion AwardsNovember 2007 and 2008
Ted Noten, Lady K Bag Nr. 42007
Ted Noten, Lady-K-Bag2004
Ted Noten, Murdered Innocence2005
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Lecture: Paola Antonelli
I am so happy that I went to the Paola Antonelli lecture. After a long day of portfolio review and transporting work to and from school, I was tempted to just go home. However, I forced myself to attend the lecture and I loved it.
Paola Antonelli is an incredibly smart and interesting speaker. Her lecture was informative, entertaining, and inspiring. She began her lecture by giving a brief background describing how she came to her job as senior curator of architecture and design at MoMA. After majoring in economics for two years and discovering that it was not for her, Antonelli studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. She worked as an architect for a couple of years, before abandoning it for writing. Anotonelli then moved to Los Angeles and taught at UCLA until she applied for and received her position at MoMA. Of all of this career-shifting, she simply says "The path found itself."
Antonelli has found design to be her true passion, and her mission as a curator is to ensure that design is recognized as part of natural human creativity. At MoMA, she strives to make her exhibitions "sexy" to keep the audience captivated - most visitors to MoMA are not there for design, and Antonelli seeks to change that.
During the lecture, she showed images from several of her past exhibitions that were amazing. I'm posting one of my favorite images below, from the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition, which combined art and science, resulting in amazing and beautiful work. You can learn more about Paola Antonelli here, and visit the MoMA website here.
Paola Antonelli is an incredibly smart and interesting speaker. Her lecture was informative, entertaining, and inspiring. She began her lecture by giving a brief background describing how she came to her job as senior curator of architecture and design at MoMA. After majoring in economics for two years and discovering that it was not for her, Antonelli studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. She worked as an architect for a couple of years, before abandoning it for writing. Anotonelli then moved to Los Angeles and taught at UCLA until she applied for and received her position at MoMA. Of all of this career-shifting, she simply says "The path found itself."
Antonelli has found design to be her true passion, and her mission as a curator is to ensure that design is recognized as part of natural human creativity. At MoMA, she strives to make her exhibitions "sexy" to keep the audience captivated - most visitors to MoMA are not there for design, and Antonelli seeks to change that.
During the lecture, she showed images from several of her past exhibitions that were amazing. I'm posting one of my favorite images below, from the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition, which combined art and science, resulting in amazing and beautiful work. You can learn more about Paola Antonelli here, and visit the MoMA website here.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Lecture: Richard Roth
I attended the Richard Roth lecture at Reynolds Gallery last night. Quite honestly, I was not interested in the paintings. However, I found his lecture to be interesting, and even amusing at times. Rather than having a grand and pretentious concept behind his work, he merely said that he found them intriguing, and enjoyed the process of making them. He seemed genuinely happy with his work, and eager to get back to his studio to begin creating again.
Formerly an installation artist, Roth is now working in a new way. He has begun creating paintings on birch blocks, roughly shoebox size. Each block is painted on the front, top, bottom, and sides. They are all completely symmetrical, and primarily consist of black, white, and one other color. Due to their size and the fact that they are painted all the way around, they become almost sculptural and at times create optical illusions.
The biography from Roth's website reads: "Richard Roth is an artist and designer whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 1991 he was the recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts. He received an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and a BFA from The Cooper Union. His work has been exhibited at Rocket Gallery, London; Penine Hart Gallery, Bess Cutler Gallery, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Reynolds Gallery, Richmond; Shillam + Smith, London; UCR/California Museum of Photography; the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Feigen, Inc., Chicago; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He is the co-editor of the book, Beauty is Nowhere: Ethical Issues in Art and Design and co-author of Color Basics. He was the Director of Solvent Space in Richmond, Virginia, 2005 – 2009. He is currently a faculty member in the Painting and Printmaking Department at Virginia Commonwealth University."
For more of Roth's work and other information, please see his website.
Richard Roth, Cowboy Magic
Flashe on birch plywood, 11 3/8 x 8 x 4 inches, 2006
Richard Roth, Angelina
Flashe on birch plywood, 11 3/8 x 8 x 4 inches, 2007
Richard Roth, Happy Hour
Flashe on birch plywood, 11 3/8 x 8 x 4 inches, 2008
Formerly an installation artist, Roth is now working in a new way. He has begun creating paintings on birch blocks, roughly shoebox size. Each block is painted on the front, top, bottom, and sides. They are all completely symmetrical, and primarily consist of black, white, and one other color. Due to their size and the fact that they are painted all the way around, they become almost sculptural and at times create optical illusions.
The biography from Roth's website reads: "Richard Roth is an artist and designer whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 1991 he was the recipient of a Visual Artists Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts. He received an MFA from the Tyler School of Art and a BFA from The Cooper Union. His work has been exhibited at Rocket Gallery, London; Penine Hart Gallery, Bess Cutler Gallery, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Reynolds Gallery, Richmond; Shillam + Smith, London; UCR/California Museum of Photography; the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; Feigen, Inc., Chicago; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He is the co-editor of the book, Beauty is Nowhere: Ethical Issues in Art and Design and co-author of Color Basics. He was the Director of Solvent Space in Richmond, Virginia, 2005 – 2009. He is currently a faculty member in the Painting and Printmaking Department at Virginia Commonwealth University."
For more of Roth's work and other information, please see his website.
Richard Roth, Cowboy MagicFlashe on birch plywood, 11 3/8 x 8 x 4 inches, 2006
Richard Roth, AngelinaFlashe on birch plywood, 11 3/8 x 8 x 4 inches, 2007
Richard Roth, Happy HourFlashe on birch plywood, 11 3/8 x 8 x 4 inches, 2008
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Lecture: Christopher Winton-Stahle and Allen Jones for ASMP
Tonight, I attended a presentation on the ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers) given by Christopher Winton-Stahle and Allen Jones. The information that they gave was very interesting and thought provoking. Chris attributes his success (and he is immensely successful, especially considering how young he is) to his membership with the ASMP and all of the networking opportunities that the meetings provide him with.
After the presentation, I am considering joining ASMP. If I were to sign up before graduating, I could get the student rate of only $60/year, which would provide me with all kinds of benefits, including discounts on photo equipment and the opportunity to list myself as an available assistant on the ASMP website. I am all for anything that leads to employment these days ...
At the end of the presentation, we looked at some of Chris' work. I had actually seen some of this last semester, and I still think it's interesting. I'm posting a couple of my favorites from his "Folk of the Blue Ridge" series below.
Christopher Winton-Stahle, The Lowe Family
Christopher Winton-Stahle, The Davis Family
To learn more about the ASMP, see their website. For more of Christopher Winton-Stahle's work, check out his site.
After the presentation, I am considering joining ASMP. If I were to sign up before graduating, I could get the student rate of only $60/year, which would provide me with all kinds of benefits, including discounts on photo equipment and the opportunity to list myself as an available assistant on the ASMP website. I am all for anything that leads to employment these days ...
At the end of the presentation, we looked at some of Chris' work. I had actually seen some of this last semester, and I still think it's interesting. I'm posting a couple of my favorites from his "Folk of the Blue Ridge" series below.
Christopher Winton-Stahle, The Lowe Family
Christopher Winton-Stahle, The Davis FamilyTo learn more about the ASMP, see their website. For more of Christopher Winton-Stahle's work, check out his site.
Research: Color Profiles
Next week, I will be spending a lot of time in the 215 lab, printing my images. In preparation, I decided that I need a refresher on color management/profiles. See the video below.
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