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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
just found this today
Try all the flavors in student exhibit
By KEVIN COSTELLO
CORRESPONDENT
Published: Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 2:41 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 7:13 a.m.
The 8,000 square feet of floor space and 25-foot high ceiling of Mack b Projects, located just east of Highway 41 on Tallevast Road, is the area's largest and most progressive commercial art gallery.
ART REVIEW: 33 Flavors, A Fine Art Thesis Show
On view Friday through May 2 at Mack b Projects, 500 Tallevast Road. Gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, noon to 3 p.m. Saturday. 359-0654; mackbgallery.com.
"33 Flavors," the Ringling College of Art and Design's fine arts thesis show on view at the gallery, lives up to expectations based on previous years in its diversity of ideas in contemporary art. The title of the show refers to the number of graduating seniors and is apt for such an abundance of styles, attitudes and materials on view. Everything from geometric and lyrical abstraction, Surrealism and Neo-Expressionism to variants of Conceptualism are here in materials ranging from traditional painting and print media to wood, metal, plaster, glass, fabric and found objects.
A sampling of the flavors includes Corrine Grier's soft, voluptuous biomorphic sculptures made of stuffed fabrics that address issues of female body self-image. The paintings of Mathew Knopf seek to reconcile a multiplicity of appropriated cultural icons into a single vision by recontextualizing the icons so they lose their original meaning for an implied new one. Ruben Kern keeps alive the primitivistic tradition of contemporary art with mixed media figurines that could have been exhumed at an archeological dig.
The tall glass and steel square columns of Brandon Petefish are conceived as subjective self-portraits while asserting the continuing aesthetic potential of architectonic sculpture. Carl Pomposelli, having sauntered through the aisles of office supply and dry goods stores for his materials, presents an installation that nudges the definition of visual chaos relative to order one step closer to the former without losing sight of the latter.
Various interpretations of Surrealism abound. Lynda Bostrom infuses her mixed-media sculptures with surrealist aesthetics that reflect on the tradition of Quietism seen in the context of family history. Sara Watson's bas-relief sculptures made of yarn add warmth and humor to the ongoing metamorphosis of feminist art toward less strident, reconcilable terms.
Art in the hands of the young carries the assumption that painting and sculpture can expand or contract perceptions at will in the mind of its audience and infuse the viewer with insights about the need for conceptual flexibility as necessary to a healthy society. It is a reasonable philosophical position for artists to take, one with a foundation in history and needful of an empathetic audience if we are going to nurture the visual poets of the future.
http://www1.heraldtribune.com/article/20080424/FEATURES/804240363/1013/FEATURES05
By KEVIN COSTELLO
CORRESPONDENT
Published: Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 2:41 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 7:13 a.m.
The 8,000 square feet of floor space and 25-foot high ceiling of Mack b Projects, located just east of Highway 41 on Tallevast Road, is the area's largest and most progressive commercial art gallery.
ART REVIEW: 33 Flavors, A Fine Art Thesis Show
On view Friday through May 2 at Mack b Projects, 500 Tallevast Road. Gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, noon to 3 p.m. Saturday. 359-0654; mackbgallery.com.
"33 Flavors," the Ringling College of Art and Design's fine arts thesis show on view at the gallery, lives up to expectations based on previous years in its diversity of ideas in contemporary art. The title of the show refers to the number of graduating seniors and is apt for such an abundance of styles, attitudes and materials on view. Everything from geometric and lyrical abstraction, Surrealism and Neo-Expressionism to variants of Conceptualism are here in materials ranging from traditional painting and print media to wood, metal, plaster, glass, fabric and found objects.
A sampling of the flavors includes Corrine Grier's soft, voluptuous biomorphic sculptures made of stuffed fabrics that address issues of female body self-image. The paintings of Mathew Knopf seek to reconcile a multiplicity of appropriated cultural icons into a single vision by recontextualizing the icons so they lose their original meaning for an implied new one. Ruben Kern keeps alive the primitivistic tradition of contemporary art with mixed media figurines that could have been exhumed at an archeological dig.
The tall glass and steel square columns of Brandon Petefish are conceived as subjective self-portraits while asserting the continuing aesthetic potential of architectonic sculpture. Carl Pomposelli, having sauntered through the aisles of office supply and dry goods stores for his materials, presents an installation that nudges the definition of visual chaos relative to order one step closer to the former without losing sight of the latter.
Various interpretations of Surrealism abound. Lynda Bostrom infuses her mixed-media sculptures with surrealist aesthetics that reflect on the tradition of Quietism seen in the context of family history. Sara Watson's bas-relief sculptures made of yarn add warmth and humor to the ongoing metamorphosis of feminist art toward less strident, reconcilable terms.
Art in the hands of the young carries the assumption that painting and sculpture can expand or contract perceptions at will in the mind of its audience and infuse the viewer with insights about the need for conceptual flexibility as necessary to a healthy society. It is a reasonable philosophical position for artists to take, one with a foundation in history and needful of an empathetic audience if we are going to nurture the visual poets of the future.
http://www1.heraldtribune.com/article/20080424/FEATURES/804240363/1013/FEATURES05
Friday, November 21, 2008
"Human beings are a part of the whole we call the Universe, a small region in time and space. They regard themselves, their ideas and their feelings as separate and apart from all the rest. It is something like an optical illusion in their consciousness. This illusion is a sort of prison; it restricts us to our personal aspirations and limits our affective life to a few people very close to us. Our task should be to free ourselves from this prison, opening up our circle of compassion in order to embrace all living creatures and all of nature in its beauty."
---Albert Einstein, cited by Ivone Gebara in Women Healing Earth
---Albert Einstein, cited by Ivone Gebara in Women Healing Earth
Thursday, November 20, 2008
some imagery (for folks who are uninteressted in my writing)
undergrad work:
death is an irreconcilable thing
death is an irreconcilable thing
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Grad School
soooooooooooooo much reading and writing. If you don't care about sleep than you're fine. As for the rest of you... you won't get much art done(I think this semester is the most I'll have to read and write for awhile)
Colab work with Frank Frank
(Hence the altering of the same piece over and over again)
I'm still not worried (not too much anyway) I will conquer this hairy beast of an institution!
Colab work with Frank Frank
(Hence the altering of the same piece over and over again)
I'm still not worried (not too much anyway) I will conquer this hairy beast of an institution!
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