Museum style art

In class we learned about our upcoming project where we have to create a museum style project. Apparently there is a whole community of artists that use techniques similar to ones in museums. One of the artists even went so far as to put himself within the glass box and create plaques to describe himself and his life. We have chosen to collaborate as a group on this project; Jeff, Megan, Ashley, and I. One idea we have come up with thus far is the evolution of the hipster. I even may have found a create display case we could borrow/snatch from the geoscience building. It's just sitting under the staircase so I figure its up for grabs.  It might be pretty comical to put one of use in it with all the hipster cliche items on as part of the exhibit.

The Museum of Jurassic Technology

Garden of Eden on Wheels

The Museum of Jurassic Technology focuses on the history of obscure objects and a strange sense of art. We watched a video of it today in art 108. The museum features exhibits like the one pictured above all the way to an x-ray bat story. The bat was supposedly able to switch the echolocation sense most bats have into x ray waves allowing the bat to fly through objects. On display is a thick lead slab that they used to capture the bat. You can see the print of a bat on the front side as if it is encased within the slab. Other displays include tiny sculptures on needles, mice on toast to show that mice used to be considered a dietary aid, and even a human horn. 

Jim Hodges

Buoyant Monoliths

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Jim Hodges

Jim Hodges is an artist in New York currently but was born in Spokane Washington(right up in my neck of the woods). Hodges explores many types of media not just installation pieces like the boulders above but also graphite drawings, and photographs. Buoyant Monoliths is a piece created from using gigantic boulder and covering them in reflective colored metal to give off distorted mirror images.

Chris Fraser

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Chris Fraser

When I stumbled upon this artist I was instantly intrigued. Chris Fraser uses light to create installations that are precise and vary on the light spectrum. The roots of his work date back to when photography was being developed; it is photography at it's basic elements. Fraser aims at creating living photography; reflecting life. As stated by Fraser, "The camera is not a device but a situation; and rays of light that we walk into, wear, and change. Even the smallest of gestures have aesthetic consequences."

Tamir Sher

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Tamir Sher

Tamir Sher is another artist who uses discarded outdated items to create beautiful works of art. He is a photographer that takes famous paintings and iconic cultural figures transposing them onto records. Photo taken at variable speeds on a record player give the swirled effect as seen above. These works are not just blurs but they are recognizable. Not only repurposed records are used but also the images themselves are taken to another level.

Gerhard Lentink

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Gerhard Lentink

Dutch sculptor Gerhard Lentink carves wood into almost puzzle like figures. The complex woodwork is very detailed yet provides a see through effect with the intentional blank spaces. The work is suppose to represent society and how we carry certain loads, and adapt to our surroundings. The wood grain to me is very beautiful and if painted it would distract from the raw nature of humans and the piece. 

Amanda Skibska

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Anna Skibska

Skibska is a glass artist who uses thin glass filaments to highlight the object underneath, but still allow for an airy sense to come across. The objects are suspended to allow for the glass to catch light creating a shine for the viewers to see. We learned about Skibska in class very early on as an example of a skeleton and skin project. 

Louise Burgeois

Maman

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Louise Burgeois

Louise Burgeois is a very famous sculptor known for contemporary art. We learned about her early in the semester in art 108 as we were introduced to various famous artists in the 3 dimensional art world. A French-American woman who made great strides in the art community, and in the American art world.  

Richard Serra

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Richard Serra

Giant metal installations are Richard Serra's speciality; another artist that was presented to me in art 108.  The walk through installations aren't only visually appealing but as stated in class the smells and textures help make the experience even better. They are made from iron and other metals which change in color and smell with different climate changes. The huge metal sculptures are very impressive to me, the sheer scale is mindblowing.

Rita Ternes

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Rita Ternes

Rita Ternes is a well known ceramics artist that was introduced to me in 108 earlier this semester. She is cuts out shapes from clay as most people cut shapes out from paper, using these shapes to create 3 dimensional objects. She also paints the forms with lines or other geometric shapes to mimic the overall shape of the piece. This particular piece is very appealing to me due to its non-representational concave slopes.

Andy Goldsworthy

Broken Pebbles

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Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is an artist we studied in class, we watch an Art 21 video on him. He is a european artist who lives in Scotland that uses nature to create artwork. His art is usually photographed due to its ephemeral nature. He creates pieces of work out in nature away from humans, creating large egg like sculptures is one of his favorite types of work. Stacking rocks to balance them into a structurally sound piece.

Chuck Close

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Chuck Close

Chuck Close is an artist who has gone through some extreme medical conditions, he has been paralyzed since 1988 and suffers from prosopagnosia, even with this he continues to make enormous portraits using photo realism and pointillism. I really admire his artwork and am so impressed by it and him. 

Book Project

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Morgan Braun

For this project I wanted to use a political approach to create meaning. I bought a used John McCain book then carved a Republican elephant out of floral foam and painted it red(the color of the republican party). I displayed the elephant holding a cross to show how Republican ideals are christian based, that the Republican party hold religion above other things. I made the elephant carving thrusting out of the page to show how in our faces some Republicans are with their beliefs.

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Antony Gormley

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Antony Gormley

Gormley does strange metal work mainly with the subject matter of humans bodies. This sculpture is the width of the room showing a outstretched arm span from an average size human body. His works make the viewer interact within a shared space, creating the audience to wander around the artwork under the arms.

Maya Lin

Landscape

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Maya Lin

This huge installation is done by Maya Lin. The use of  50,000 pieces of small 2 x 4 inches Sustainable Forestry Initiative certified woodblocks have been made into a giant hill showing that the earth can be a sustainable place. If we pay close attention to how we place trees like how Lin placed and used these wood pieces we can create a beautiful vast world. 

Tom Burr

Sentence 

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Tom Burr

This installation consists of four different pieces, one resembles a closet, another a ladder with a parachute on it. They are all a bit random to me. The use of line is what Burr's main purpose is within this installation, or at least that's about all I can see. I don't especially like his work due the fact that it seems like nothing is done purposefully. 

Zhang Wang

On Gold Mountain 

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Zhang Wang

This work is the city scape of San Francisco, Wang takes interesting rocks sculpted by natures elements and mold stainless steal around them. The shapes made from these rocks are made into these larger sculptures like the one pictured above. Wang took rocks from the San Franciscan region to establish the history behind the sculpture. In this case Wang used the influence of the chinese immigrants working in gold mining during the nineteenth century.

Jean Shin

Sound Wave 

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Jean Shin

Jean Shin is an artist who reuses average objects to make meaningful installations that reflect upon society. Sound Wave is a wave shaped object made from old discarded records, this work to me is a take on how society discards the outdated without regard to its effects on the world. Records are made from plastic; plastic is polluting the oceans. Therefore creating a wave from plastic discarded items reflects on the pollution caused by mankind.