Shelby Fleming 10/8/2017

 Mid-Term
Questions of the week:

·         What are you doing and why?

·         What do you want the viewer to get out of it?

·         Are the spine self-portraits a way for me to try and find answers for myself?

·         Is everything I’m making right now Strawmen? Is it trying to prove that I should still be making the old work? Is the new work a fake, a put on to justify that the old work should be made.

·         How do you transcend new materials like the old work did?

·         How do you know what I am making is important?

·         Why do you make what we make?

·         Images/stills: What are they doing? How do they function?

·         What does personal narrative do?

·         What is the role of subject matter in art

·         What do you want the viewer to feel? Anxiety

·         Ask questions through work?

Side notes of the week:

·         Let go harder, DO NOT EASE UP!!

·         Tone has changed: Old- Transends materials New- materialness is still

·         Everything still relates to the body or figurative quality, Building becomes body

o   Color affects environment.

·         Material investigation, Materials could be referenced more, Push materials/ transformation of materials

·         Performance/film stills: references gestural drawings, energy, rightness of poses, more reflection, safety pins creates a common ground for the viewer, everything is not easily identifiable and attracts more interests, gives the viewer more questions to ask.

o   Environment as body, They are images not performance, what are they doing?

o   Turn bubble wrap piece into a performance (wrap person or create instillation)

·         Mirror: Mirror references microscopic, functionality, A lot of the spine pieces are self-portraits, Passive way to present the information, relay info, empathies. (why isn’t it a text book? Wouldn’t it give the same type of information?)

·         Universal vs. Personal

·         Pillow plaster: Most bizarre with the most questions.

·         Do not completely throw out old ideas just find different means of communicating

Artists of the week:

Marilee Salvator

 Spread

Salvator draws inspiration from the repetition of mark making, bilologica forms, and plant life. an exploration of shape and pattern. She is interested in cells for their shape, patter, reproduce, mature, and spread uncontrollably.
"I find it fascinating how something so detrimental as cancer, can look so beautiful under a microscope." -Salvator







Jessica Stockholder 

Skin Toned Garden Mapping

Draws influence from how we experience the physical world, and how its form and our own forms  determine how and what we are capable of thinking. She also has a consciousnesses of the objects she is appropriating and the distinct time periods and contexts the object might have.