I will be attending grad school. Not right after this is over though. I have done a brief search for interesting programs.
1. Iv herd from stephen westfall that it is a great school for painting so looked into that one.
http://www.bard.edu/mfa/school/
2. http://www.location1.org/ this is a residency i found. 3 to 9 months you get a studio in NY emerging artists welcome. This seems more like what i am going to be looking for once by bfa has been achieved.
3. i recently herd about the very competitive Skowhegan school of painting and sculpture. This is a 9 week program in Maine. Hosts provide room board studio and working materials.
http://www.skowheganart.org/
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
The Fair "quotes"
1. "When you first start collecting, you're intensely competitive, but eventually you learn two things....First, if an artist is only going to make on good work, then there is no reason to fight over it. Second, a collection is a personal vision. No one can steal your vision." pg 82-83
2. "...it's not just about buying a piece. It's about buying into somebody's life and where there going with it. It's a mutual commitment, which is pretty intense." pg 84
3. "When gallerists are confident about demand for an artist's work they wouldn't dream of surrendering to the first comer or the highest bidder. They compile a list of interested parties so they can place the work in the most prestigious home." pg 88
4. "hurry hurry collectors who go to hurry hurry galleries to buy hurry hurry artists" he likes artists "who are on a slow burn, very good, very serious, not in the fast track, but persuing their own artistic interests with tenacity, quirkiness, and confindence." pg 90
5. "An artist entering an art fair is like a teenager barging into his parents bedroom while there having sex." pg 94
2. "...it's not just about buying a piece. It's about buying into somebody's life and where there going with it. It's a mutual commitment, which is pretty intense." pg 84
3. "When gallerists are confident about demand for an artist's work they wouldn't dream of surrendering to the first comer or the highest bidder. They compile a list of interested parties so they can place the work in the most prestigious home." pg 88
4. "hurry hurry collectors who go to hurry hurry galleries to buy hurry hurry artists" he likes artists "who are on a slow burn, very good, very serious, not in the fast track, but persuing their own artistic interests with tenacity, quirkiness, and confindence." pg 90
5. "An artist entering an art fair is like a teenager barging into his parents bedroom while there having sex." pg 94
The Kandinsky Show
I went to see the Wassily Kandinsky retrospective at the Guggenheim. I chose this show because i enjoy Kandinsky's work, not that it has any influence on my own, or not that i know of. However, after the third or fourth circle i realized that i couldn't fully get behind what he was doing. This i found very amusing, because it seemed to reflect some of my thoughts towards making work. Iv seen his work before and have admired it, however it was only one or two at a time at like the met or something. I have never been exposed to such a massive amount of Kandinsky. His later work couldn't help but be reminded of art hung at a department store entrance.
This show sort of reinforced my reluctance towards working abstractly. I had made abstract art in the past and my work was basically trying to find a way for me to unite that with representation, but recently i have found myself working only representationally and also responding more to representation. I have read his book "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" and sort of understand what he was doing, in terms of trying to use music as a sort of visual language. I think the problem for me is here. Music is naturally more abstract then any sort of 2D visual expression. It exists in a time and space while painting exists in a 2D space manifested by the artist so music in its creation is subject to natural order of our physical world. This allows there to be more standards and structure in music then in painting, which means there is less room for interpretation at the basic level of music (tones notes chords) so they cant be equated to basic levels of picture making (line form color) because every mark can be interpreted differently.
I went to this show thinking cool, massive Kandinsky show and the Guggenheim (awful museum btw) is free, its gunna be a good day. I was expecting to get blown away by tons of abstract paintings and it turned out that it was his early representational stuff done on dark paper or canvas is what i really wanted to see. I left a little disappointed but after a while of thinking about the shows affect on me i realize how important of a show it was.
There was also an awesome site specific Anish Kapoor sculpture installation thing called Memory. It was a gigantic iron eggish form that was stuffed into a room and the only way to view it was through 3 different doorways.
This show sort of reinforced my reluctance towards working abstractly. I had made abstract art in the past and my work was basically trying to find a way for me to unite that with representation, but recently i have found myself working only representationally and also responding more to representation. I have read his book "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" and sort of understand what he was doing, in terms of trying to use music as a sort of visual language. I think the problem for me is here. Music is naturally more abstract then any sort of 2D visual expression. It exists in a time and space while painting exists in a 2D space manifested by the artist so music in its creation is subject to natural order of our physical world. This allows there to be more standards and structure in music then in painting, which means there is less room for interpretation at the basic level of music (tones notes chords) so they cant be equated to basic levels of picture making (line form color) because every mark can be interpreted differently.
I went to this show thinking cool, massive Kandinsky show and the Guggenheim (awful museum btw) is free, its gunna be a good day. I was expecting to get blown away by tons of abstract paintings and it turned out that it was his early representational stuff done on dark paper or canvas is what i really wanted to see. I left a little disappointed but after a while of thinking about the shows affect on me i realize how important of a show it was.
There was also an awesome site specific Anish Kapoor sculpture installation thing called Memory. It was a gigantic iron eggish form that was stuffed into a room and the only way to view it was through 3 different doorways.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
The Zimmerly wood cut show
Yesterday i went to see the new show of woodcut prints at the Zimmerly museum. I liked looking at the range of woodcuts uses in making an image. The applications of the medium have a very wide range, depending on the artist's hand, which make it an excellent medium for any style of working. This has to do with woods physical properties. It is very hard and has a grain so very precise and hard edged images can be made, like Donald Judd's minimal abstractions. Woods hardness and grain can also produce very expressive gestures if the artist decides to fight its physical properties. This was a trademark of the German expressionists.
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