So Eric L. and I collaborated designing this poster starting with the image in the center that I designed. Lilly R. came with the idea of the names of all participating in the exhibition and from there Eric L. worked on the layout. He emailed me the file which then I took and modified some alignment and poster requirements. We were all pleased with the final version.
Original layout as designed by Eric:
Final layout:
Filed under: The Process of Art | Tags: horizon, Janine Anthony, Lick and Lather, Moor, rope
Janine Anthony is an artist that focuses on the process of making art with the use of her body. In the first video above she discusses how she attacks a problem from many different angles. Her art is thus not only what we see in a museum but how it was made. She calls this art her object, and when this object starts changing her she believes that it might be able to change someone else.
Anthony also wants the viewer to engage and empathize with her art. She believes that by using the body, the viewers will empathize with her and connect more with the object.
Filed under: The Process of Art | Tags: building projections, jewish, memories, Shimon Attie
Shimon Attie is an American artist with a jewish background and upbringing. This is important to mention because many of his works focus on the questioning of the memories people have of what today is now in history books and has now been forgotten by the newer generations.
In his project The Writing on the Wall project (1991-1993)he projected slides in the streets of Berlin of what the neighborhood looked like before the holocaust. He used old photographs he found in archives and tried to project the pictures in the exact location where they were taken.
In his project Memories Unseen he collected memories from the people who lived in the upper east side of New York. The neighborhood went through a lot changes and immigrant waves having Jewish, Dominican, Puerto Rican and Chinese people. He met with several people and asked them to write their memories in a piece of paper. Those writings were then projected on the buildings as if someone was handwriting them.
The major challenge many artists have is how to be able to communicate their ideas and generate discussion with their art. I believe Attie is successful in doing so as the projections and writing on the walls are just not random things but have a meaning to someone and generate discussion on remembering the past. I was unable to find a video of his work but if you ever come across it it is worth watching.
Although they are really not comparable with Attie’s work, below are a couple videos with awesome projection mappings on buildings just for fun.
So this week was my official back to school week. I am taking maybe more courses than I can handle without turning insane but all the classes seem fun and interesting – and I am a little insane already. Today at my Process of Art class we learned about a silhouette artist name Kara Walker. I always find these videos really inspiring as they help my thought process and let me come with ways to implement ideas borrowed from each of the artists I watch and make them my own, appropriate them.
Already I have a project for another class that I think the use of at least one silhouette will be a great focal point for it. I liked about Kara Walker that she talked a little bit about the theme for her art and how passionate she is about it. I believe you have to be passionate about the message to be able to create good, meaningful art rather than just images printed/painted on paper.
