DUE MONDAY @ MIDNIGHT:
Upload 7 new images to BOTH blogs.
http://www.reframingphotography.com/content/artists-gallery
Visit
the above website. Peruse the artists there and post your favorite
artists' link on our blog in the space provided (I will provide my fav
as an example). You will have to log in as photoliciousuwf@gmail.com to
do so. The password was emailed to your school account a few weeks ago.
DUE TUESDAY @ MIDNIGHT:
Choose an artist from the list that your classmates provided (other than your own choice).
Discuss
in a well written paragraph (or two) the elements of the that artists'
practice or body of work which you find engaging. Also please note who
you posted as your fav.
I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this or not, but here it is anyway. Here are five links to the artist websites featured on the reframing photography website that I found to be most interesting.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.jandunning.com/histories.html
http://www.filimowicz.com/
http://www.varvarag.info/
http://www.ucalgary.ca/gerald_hushlak/
http://www.antoinelheureux.com/
here are my links!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/julie-cassels
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/anna-helgeson
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/gerald-hushlak
Here are my links along with the artist websites:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/ross-sawyers
http://www.rossawyers.com
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/rebecca-cummins
http://rebeccacummins.com/
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/jan-dunning
http://www.jandunning.com/
Here are my links :)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/rebecca-cumminshttp
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/chris-twomey
http://www.reframingphotography.com/content/lesley-dill
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/jenny-hyde
ReplyDeletehttp://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/j-thomas-pallas
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/fred-skupenski
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/louise-short
My links:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/andrew-neumann
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/vesna-pavlovic
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/anna-helgeson
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/j-thomas-pallas
My faves:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/fred-skupenski
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/gerald-hushlak
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/j-thomas-pallas
My favorites:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/rebecca-cummins
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/anna-g-norton
http://www.reframingphotography.com/artists/kurt-weston
Of all of the artists my classmates listed, I found Ross Sawyers’ to be most interesting. Most of his photos show what appear to be enclosures made of modern building materials. In almost every case, the enclosure has been damaged in a way that somehow manages to create a sense of balance in the resulting photo. I think the images are in a way soothing yet somewhat lonely and cold. There is a complete lack of living things in all of his work. Life seems to have been replaced with mathematical precision and corresponding geometric shapes. Sawyers relies heavily on the use of negative space to communicate emotion in his works.
ReplyDeleteI listed five different artists in my original post, but of those five, I liked the work of Gerald Hushlak the best.
Fred Skupenski's photographs of discards shows how abandoned objects can be displayed beautifully under a spotlight. He collages his findings into compositions we can identify as abstractions of life- a guru, a gang of boys, a box of chocolates. What I find most interesting are his titles that create connections between what we know the objects are and how they're presented. All of the photos in this series are in black and white, adding to the objectification of the subject matter, which I enjoy very much.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite artist from my list is Julie Cassels because she uses old photographs to resurrect/recreate the past.
Of the artists my classmates posted, I like J. Thomas Pallas the best. It is amazing to see what he makes using stamps. I also like that he uses the stamps to make portraits of highly recongnizable faces. I really wish his website was finished, but in the meantime, I did view quite a few of the artwork he does have posted. The thing I find most interesting is his ability to make the pictures look 3-D with just using a stamp over and over again, to give the picture the lights and darks.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite artist was Rebecca Cummings. I really like the clean, simplicistic look of her work, even knowing that it is much more complicated than it looks.
I liked Rebecca Cummins, the best out of the Artists my classmates posted. She uses light and natural phenomenon for her artwork. I love how she used wine glasses as lenses. It was very interesting to see how the image through the glass changed as she poured water into it. She also uses pieces of metal and water to make rainbows. I'd like to walk through it with an umbrella as she noted that she also uses sound like "singing in the rain" and "raindrops keep falling on my head". I found that very intriguing.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite artist that I posted was Thomas Pallas. I love the way he used a small stamp of Madam C.J. Walker to make a larger mural of her. Its very interesting to watch him work on it because of all the greys, instead of just a black and a white. It looks amazing.
Of the other artists my classmates posted, I was particularly interested in Anna Helgeson who used images of forgotten women in history to demonstrate the unfortunate lack of knowledge attributed to them. I am currently taking in Gender Communications so this topic was very relevant to me. It's not surprising that in a patriarchal society, men are much more often remembered for their accomplishments. I was intrigued how she made multiple copies of each one that eventually faded until they were unable to discern. The image and info disappearing with each print provides strong imagery of the cultural amnesia that occurs in our society. With each generation, less is known, remembered, or appreciated about women like this. It is a shame that while for the most part men's names are solidified in history books, many women's identities are slowly fading into obscurity.
ReplyDeleteOf the artists I posted, I especially liked Rebecca Cummins. I was fascinated by her manipulation of light and natural occurrences to illustrate the strange beauty of our world.
I really enjoyed J Thomas Pallas artwork. I found it very interesting how he made the profile of Madam C.J. Walker out of stamps. I found it so interesting how he even captured the shadow and light on her face. It look just like a painting or a print and for a distance you would never know it is made up of small stamps that even represent her. I like how he uses an unexpected medium that is rare.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite out of my list would be Chris Twomey. I the different materials she used. The fluffy cloud material is different and I also like how she incorporates the video and the pictures with the fabric as well. She uses many mediums together in one show and it flows nicely.
Julie Cassels Traveling Light piece was very interesting because of the history she was attempting to recreate. She took photos of a bag similar to the one that Nellie Bly supposedly traveled around the world within 72 days, as opposed to Jules Vern traveling the world at 80 days. I tried to look up more information on this, but her website is a bit lacking and doesn’t have any further information on it.
ReplyDeleteOf the artists I posted Anna Helgeson was undoubtedly my favorite, because her piece showcases the unknown or forgotten women that contributed to many male accomplishments.
Vesna Pavlovic's photographs of American homes on display make such a brilliant reference to film sets, that -at least for me- the images cross the uncanny valley.
ReplyDeleteWhen homes are in open house, they are groomed for display in such a way that potential buyers are invited to imagine their own furnishings in the home.
Just enough furniture and decor is removed or played down so that buyers are encouraged to fill it themselves. Sometimes walls are repainted and yards are manicured.
This process is called "staging", an obvious theatre reference. Pavlovic's work immediately references the effects of the process. She likens them to film sets indirectly by displaying them through projection onto plexi-glass panes. Her method of display essentially "flattens" the spaces into merely a shimmering appearance, which is conceptually very much like an open house or a tv-studio's faux stair case. Although my favorite was actually Gerald Hushlack, I particularly enjoyed this work because, like early painters, she (in concept) preoccupies herself with turning three-dimensional spaces into two-dimensional appearances.