Contemporary Portrait Photographers

While doing some research for my photography class on contemporary portrait photographers, I came across this guy, Steven Gelberg. This guy is amazing at what he does. The main reason I fell in love with his photographs is because they remind me of charcoal drawings, in the way they are composed and printed. I wanted to share the link with you guys to see if you like them as much as I do.

http://www.portraitphotographersonline.com/gal_gelbergsteven.htm

Speightstown Project con't......

I'm thinking about building the replica out of cardboard and have the signs (or something close to, due to copyright purposes.....lol) of the stores I had selected to compare to those in Brigdetown. I want to have pull outs showing comments of workers and the details of prices, items and target market. I will show you guys some sketches by Wednesday.

Clay Sculpting (so cliche)....lol

I was searching for complex and interesting clay scupltures and i found one that caugh my eye, I love the concept and the composition. For some reason I laughed when I saw it......anyways just thought I would share it with you guys.

Art 21....Mark Bradford

Short Bio

Mark Bradford is an artist who incorporates ephemera from urban environments into mixed-media works on canvas that are rich in texture and visual complexity. Though he has experimented throughout his career with many different artistic media, including public art, installations, and video, his signature and best-known work takes the form of massively scaled, abstract collages that he assembles out of signage and other materials collected, most frequently, from his own neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. Bradford’s aesthetic language makes use of such elements as bits of billboards, handmade advertisements, foil, string, and permanent wave end-papers from beauty shops, which he arranges, layers, singes, sands, and bleaches into brilliantly hued, painterly structures that appear to sprawl and swirl. Loosely gridded and often cartographic in character, these pieces both reflect his interest in the formal traditions of modernist abstraction and reference the communities from which he culls his materials. Glimpses of partially legible text and imagery within his map-like works evoke a multitude of metaphors and suggest intricate systems in a constant state of flux. In the multilayered tableau Los Moscos (2004), bursts of bright yellows and reds radiate through a predominance of darker fragments, calling to mind clusters of pulsing city lights viewed from a collapsed and distanced perspective. With this piece and numerous others in his increasingly ambitious body of work, Bradford is developing a visually arresting means of representing in two dimensions the dynamism and depth of the sites and streets he excavates.

Mark Bradford received a B.F.A. (1995) and an M.F.A. (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts. His work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions at such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, among many others.

Some Works

This piece of work, like most of his pieces, reminds me of Robert Raushemberg's work. the use of images to create a collage of shapes, form and color is remarkable on his part. What really drew me to this piece was the rough or rugged look it has, the vigorous application also caught my eye.

speightstown project

I have decided to do a replica of the mall where we had parked the cars. Remember I will be doing an evaluation of who these stores are targeting, what they sell, the prices, etc. And MAYBE compare them to another town, Bridgetown.

Check Out this Website....

http://www.ballatamas.com/kreativ/en_creative.html

Another alternative method....think about new media to use for sculpture or any other class....this website was cool.

Disgusting but Interesting Medium....

When i saw this video, it reminded me of my links project for Ewan. This was very interesting AND a little unsettling to watch for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_L8po2y2UU&feature=watch_response

What do you guys think??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDZs__m5iAI

I think this was pretty spectacular. I enjoy all types of art, even culinary......What do u guys think....some feedback would be interesting.

Definition of New Media Art According to Wikipedia

New media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art technologies, computer robotics, and art as biotechnology. The term differentiates itself by its resulting cultural objects and social events, which can be seen in opposition to those deriving from old visual arts (i.e. traditional painting, sculpture, etc.) This concern with medium is a key feature of much contemporary art and indeed many art schools and major Universities now offer majors in "New Genres" or "New Media".^[1] New Media Art often involves interaction between artist and observer.

New Media concerns are often derived from the telecommunications, mass media and digital modes of delivery the artworks involve, with practices ranging from conceptual to virtual art, performance to installation.

some art pieces i found interesting

http://www.preview-art.com/features/noguchi.html

comunicacion es la clave de "success"

Those words above translate to "communication is the key to success" (obviously I have forgotten the spanish word for "success." Anyways I've decided to talk about communication because I have been hearing it a whole lot for the past few weeks. The icing on the cake tho was yesterday at my cousin's wedding where her pastor had spoken for the church. She mentioned that there are three things that make a marraige work: money, sex and more importantly....yes, you've guessed it, COMMUNICATION. It is only these days that I have come to realise that communication is extremely important if one wants to succeed. Whether in any type of relationship or situation, husband and wife, boyfriend and girlfriend, student and teacher, brother and sister communication plays a big part in getting along and making these relationships work. So for the remainder of this semester and hopefully for the rest of my life, I would try to place this thing called communication at the top of my priority list. I think everyone should. In the end communication really is the key to success.

comunicacion es la clave de "success"

First Critique

So...we had our first critique of the first year in Bachelor's. It did NOT go well, for most of us that is. I felt for Asbone because Werth didn't give him a chance to explain himself, yes explain, not excuse. In terms of the work that we have produced tho...mwe deserved the "chopping" that we got. I don't agree with the whole "buy good paper thing" and I didn't think that if I had handed in my work on "lesser" paper I wuddnt have gotten as much marks as I wud have using the "proper" paper.