Archive for the 'Art' Category
Apartamento is a recent online discovery that appears to be a good looking magazine that might just be worth our reading.
Apartamento is a new international editorial project dedicated to the world of interiors, born to tell the story of personal experiences and lifes through the spaces where we live and work. Everyday stories, seen without the usual masks of look-a-like interiors perfect to the millimeter, because in real life the variables are infinite and unpredictable, since every environment has got its own dynamics and peculiarities that make it special.
Apartamento aspire to be a source of inspiration, a new stimulating force to show how common people live, decorate their home and react to the same everyday life events that at some point might happen to all of us.
Recently visited Mass MOCA to view several great exhibits with the family. The second photograph is from Projections by Jenny Holzer and the third photograph is from Sculpture and Paintings by Anselm Kiefer. See more photos on the Flickr stream.
MASS MoCA is the largest center for contemporary arts in the United States. The institution is dedicated to the creation and presentation of provocative visual and performing arts pieces, and of works that blur conventional distinctions between artistic disciplines.
A collection of the most colorful currencies from around the world.
The Bolívar Fuerte includes illustrations of Francisco de Miranda, Pedro Camejo, Cacique Guaicaipuro, Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi, Simón Rodríguez and Simón Bolívar, on the fronts. On the backsides, the notes feature Amazon river dolphins, a giant armadillo, an American Harpy eagle, the hawks bill turtle, a spectacled bear and the red siskin.
Tomorrow night is the senior art show at school, a friend and I are displaying our work from over the past year. My collection of work is made up of three different series of typographical work combined with visual work.
The combination of typography and visuals.
The balance of words and images.
The mixture of statements and sights.
Personally, I am so intrigued by the concept of this visual moving imagery. I think that within this work you will find an important message of hope, change, and the possibility of peace. Along with possessing an aesthetic appeal accompanied with the perfect music, the meaning is deep. When the news anchors look straight into the camera with nothing to say, it almost has a feeling of relief. This is the day there was no news.
The multidisciplinary studio called Neuarmy has some great work to show for. Been spending some time looking through their portfolio online and so should you.
When looking for inspiration I was going through some sites that I have saved and I loaded Jonathan Harris’s website. And up came a brand new project that this visual artist, interaction designer, and storyteller from New York City! It is called I Want You to Want Me. It is an installation piece in the form of a large touch screen at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Design and Elastic Mind Exhibit. This piece and exhibit opened about eight hours after I left the museum and headed back home on the train, so needless to say I was disappointed to miss it. (I had dragged my friends all the way up to the top floor that day, only to find that something was being installed)
This project takes a look and explores the world of online dating. For more we turn to an excerpt from the projects website.
I Want You To Want Me chronicles the world’s long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, gathering new data from a variety of online dating sites every few hours. The system searches these sites for certain phrases, which it then collects and stores in a database. These phrases, taken out of context, provide partial glimpses into people’s private lives. Simultaneously, the system forms an evolving zeitgeist of dating, tracking the most popular first dates, turn-ons, desires, self-descriptions and interests.
Harris always seems to find interesting topics to cover. And in doing so, he just doesn’t create art, but creates masterful visual experiences which tell stories. That is what I enjoy so much about his work.
Learn more about I Want You to Want Me.
Learn more about Design and the Elastic Mind at MOMA.
See other projects from Jonathan Harris.
(Images and quoted text from Jonathan Harris)
Everybody is born an artist, I am pleased that I have decided to stay one. As I child I remember my mom would always have crafts for me to do. Not just play-doh and paint but some things out of the ordinary. I remember the smell of a new box of crayons, it was so good. It is weird cause I have not used crayons in the longest time, the computer and the fancy drawing pencils have taken over. There was a time when I wanted to make websites, I didn’t really care that much how they looked. But I remembering coming up with a business plan and logo and presenting it to my parents, they said no, and for good reason. The next phase was the internet and the new direction it started going in, with blogs, online communities, and social media. Through that I found design.
At first, I enjoyed looking at it the most, but then I started finding out the principles behind design, who designers were, how they lived, what the proccess of design is and much more. And all of a sudden I was viewing a large ammount of design, art, photography, illustration, video and more online. After learning more about the graphic design industry I decided this was what I wanted to do. That was about one and half years ago. From that point on I wrote about design, read books about design, emailed designers, made books, and most importantly I started designing. Design has really introduced me to art as a whole and has shown me what creative thinking can do.
Design and creativity is what my life is going to be about, and I couldn’t be happier.
On Saturday, my mom and I headed down to New York City for the day. We first stopped at the Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design. There we saw several exhibits, but our favorite by far was Ingo Maurer’s exhibit that includes mostly sculptural and installation pieces with light. We then went out for some lunch and headed downtown to the Jen Bekman Gallery. (Photo below of Kate and Mike signing books. The other two people are Natalie and Ben, two great people that I met!)
When we walked in we were imediately recognized by Kate Bingaman-Burt who has been great to me as we have been in contact online for some time now. It was great to finally meet her in person, seeing that she lives in Mississippi! I had arrived early to film some interview footage and we set to work on that. After that Mike Perry showed up and it was great to finally meet him as well! I have greatly enjoyed both of their work and they both are contributing artists to Grab Bag Book (the collaborative visual book that I am making). We talked for a little bit and then shot some footage with Mike. People started arriving around now and we got ready for a talk by Kate and Mike. (Photo below of Mike and Kate’s shoes during the talk)
After the talk we hung out for a bit and talked to Kate and Mike more about there work, college, and more. I got Hand Job, Mike’s book that recently came out and that Kate is in, signed by the both of them. At this point we hugged, shook hands, and said our goodbyes. Thanks to Mike and Kate for being so great to me!
Today, I attended the opening of art show at my school. The three artists involved where my three art teachers, each one displaying a collection of work different from the other artists. It was interesting to see all of it together for the first time since I have seen all of the work being developed and have witnessed the creation, process, and thought behind them. When I was looking at it all tonight, I realized that I do not really have a “style”. My work does not have a consistent visual appearance. My work is either still life drawings, posters involving a good amount of type, or other design work. While I am fine with this and enjoy doing them, I am looking to create a body of work that has the relatively same visual appearance. When I find time I will share with you my plans and my progress. Until then, I am happy to be designing and drawing, and thus creating a strong portfolio for the college admissions process.
More thoughts and reflections on what it is like to be planning on studying graphic design and entering the proffesional field after college - coming soon.
At my recent visit to the bookstore I browsed through the magazine section and picked up Print Magazine in order to find Kate Bingaman-Burt’s contribution to the magazine. It was pretty exciting to see her in the magazine after meeting her online and following her blog. Oh, and she also has a show in NYC that is opening next month which you should go check out. And she is also going to be in the next issue of Dwell.
My brother has started a knitted hat business. You can purchase them at his online store.
I recently did a reproduction of “Big Self Potrait” by Chuck Close.
On Thursday, I headed down to New York City with a couple art classes. (2 teachers and about 15 students) Here is my account of the day.
Elizabeth Murray Subway Mural
We arrived in Grand Central and took the subway to the 59th street subway station where we checked out Elizabeth Murray’s Mural.
My friend named Brian and I came up with this analysis of two shoes on either side of a door and the show laces being tangled above the door way….
The shoes laces represent how we can all come together through the chaos of being tangled up. The door way sends us out into the world with the ideas and values that we have learned at the mural. Once we pass through the doorway we are on our own. The shoes represent us stepping through the doorway.
Comic Abstraction
I saw this exhibit for the second time and really enjoyed it. My two favorite pieces are Untitled by Arturo Herrera and Lisa de Cohen with Adaptive by Franz West.
Dan Perjovschi
I met Dan at the museum where he was drawing on a huge wall white wall with fat magic markers. His drawings comment on political issues. I waited my turn as some important people from the museum talked to him. When I talked to him he explained the project and told me he would be there for two weeks working on it. He is originally from Rome and this is his first exhibit at a museum in the United States. I invited him to be part of the Grab Bag Book and he gave me his email. I can’t wait to see the wall when he is done.
“Perjovschi has made his drawings spontaneously in museum spaces, allowing global and local affairs to inform the final result. For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, the artist will draw witty and incisive political images, in response to current events, on one wall…” -From the MoMA Website
MIscellaneous
-Did some drawings on the train.
-Went to Queens
-Checked out some portraits
-Tried some Indian food, an later ate pizza.
The whole idea here is that you can write and draw on the side of a building or wall with a laser. What you write or draw with the laser is picked up by a camera and is run through a computer program then is projected by a projecter onto the surface. It was done by Graffiti Lab check out their project page.
Frank Gehry is one of the best architects of this generation. I just watched his documentary entitled “Sketches of Frank Gehry” which was directed by Sydney Pollack. The film was quite good and gave a great insight on to how he creates his buildings and what he his all about.
“Master Class” is a play that take place in an Opera classroom. As you might have guessed, it is about a opera master class. We are producing this drama at our school and am looking for an image of a opera house from the stage. Here’s what I have found.
Andy Goldsworthy is the man. You should really check out his work. He creates art using nature. Visual stunning.
