Artist Collab - Oliver Wasow

So me and K.T. did this collaborative presentation of two digital artists and how they're work was related. I chose to present on Oliver Wasow. He basically takes a ton of pictures, then collages parts of them together to create a new, almost surreal environment. K.T.'s artist (I forget his name ;_; ) would set up a scene and photograph it. A lot of his stuff looked like film stills.

Explanation of theme/links to come.

Word Visualization

Pictogram

Self Visualization (final)

Self Visualization

Progress thus far :)

Parable of the Garden

The week before spring break, our class took a walk downstairs to our little gallery. Our gallery's fun, there's some interesting things down there sometimes. When I went down there two weeks ago, I was kind of sleepy and grumpy, so I don't remember much. I do remember this one magazine though. It was originally online, but the artist gave us permission to print it and show it in the gallery. It was mostly pictures these stickers (mostly political) that people left on public places, like phone booths. Instant vandalism, wheeee! I'd like to pull a stunt like that one day. Not vandalism or anything big, but just produce some sort of art, mass produce it, and just leave it around for people to stumble upon and hopefully provoke some thought. I've actually got ideas, I should vector them out once I start having time again.

DIA Beacon Trip

A few weeks ago after a snow day, I got to skip more class by going on a field trip to the DIA Association in Beacon. First of all, the building itself is amazing. They renovated this old factory, the space was different from anyplace else I'd been to. Then there's all this cool art in there: Kawashima, Warhol, Bourgeois, Chamberlain...I was like a kid in Disneyland.

I saw the whole Shadows series there by Andy Warhol. That piece gets a whole, big room to itself; there's so many of them. Shadows is two images, one labelled the "peak" and the other the "cap" repeated on silkscreens in the variety of garish colors Warhol is known for. I particularly like the idea behind Shadows, how do you depict a shadow? It'd be weird to see a shadow with no identifiable object causing it, that goes against what we've been seeing all our lives. In Warhol's piece, we really don't know what we're looking at. We try to assign a representation to it, but since the image is so fuzzy and vague, we can never truly know. And then Warhol repeats this experience, which frustrated me a little. It was almost mocking.
I'd like to incorporate elements of Shadows into my next project, Self Visualization. You'll see that someday. Till then.