Now after being back from my exhilarating new york art adventure I find my self thinking about how much I loved the city, but I also think about how much I love Eugene. I like feeling like I am someone and not just a tourist.
The first week being back I found my self, analyzing everything I saw it was awesome but it died down as time went by. Im really happy I went on this trip it definitely was a good experience and I cant wait to do something like it again.
Monday, May 12, 2008
The Armory Show
The ARMORY SHOW
WOW as a women of color coming from a low income family I have never felt so out of place in my life. No joke and it is not a understatement at all. All these people with their imported Italian suits to important to talk to anyone without a suit. Their was a point when a man asked a women working, how much these flimsy construction paper rockets cost, she responded the artist is asking for 18 thousand. The man then said oh lovely I think my child would like one of them. REALLY? That is two years of college tuition for me. Anyway some art was really interesting, it gave me a few ideas for my own work but other then that it was a very awkward place for me to be in.
WOW as a women of color coming from a low income family I have never felt so out of place in my life. No joke and it is not a understatement at all. All these people with their imported Italian suits to important to talk to anyone without a suit. Their was a point when a man asked a women working, how much these flimsy construction paper rockets cost, she responded the artist is asking for 18 thousand. The man then said oh lovely I think my child would like one of them. REALLY? That is two years of college tuition for me. Anyway some art was really interesting, it gave me a few ideas for my own work but other then that it was a very awkward place for me to be in.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Sculpture Center
I was not really sure what to expect, specially after walking out of the subway and walking a few blocks and then Kartz calling SC to see if we were going the right direction, I was skeptical by the surroundings we were in, it was a lot different from the other museums we had visited.
To my surprise the Sculpture Center was not at all crowded and rushed it was a open space, once use to be a trolley repair shop. The building interior was ancient but the space works for the center. In the main part was Tom Burr’s ‘Addict Love’ exhibit. Thank god for the tour guide other wise I would of not understood any of his work. Tom Burr’s work is very minimal all his work had some background history relating to Chick Austin, Ger
trude Stein Frank Ohera and Robert Raushenberg. His work is very simple and if not knowing what it all means its boring but if one knows that relevance it becomes quite interesting to most, but not to me ha. Im not really into sculpture I just don’t understand it I guess. His piece that I did like was the one depicting bodies in a geometric form, the three black folded pieces of board. Each figure had magazine clippings, one had images of alcohol called bent booze the other called hinged haze and the other propped perfume. They were all high class alcohol and perfumes he really liked showing off these expensive brands.The down stairs was absolutely insane their even was of my own interpretation a doggie heaven or a entrance to heaven, only because it starts out with dozens of vacuum cleaners going off when pulling on a lever, then after walking past the vacumes you are illuminated by different circles of light and random toys. By far insane, I had fun down there.
PS1: WHACK! art and the feminist revolution
WHACK! The name says it all, its bold and in your
face. The feminist revolution of the 60’s and 70’s was incredible. All these women from around the world working for this cause to reclaimed their bodies to be treated equally and to kick some ass. I absolutely loved this exhibit. A lot of people don’t really like the heavy bold statements feminist art portrays but that is exactly what I like. Its good that these artist have this space, even though I loved it all, it still is not relevant to our social climate. I find that its empowering to be a women now a days and most of the social issues from the 60’s and 70’s are no longer relevant to our generation.
face. The feminist revolution of the 60’s and 70’s was incredible. All these women from around the world working for this cause to reclaimed their bodies to be treated equally and to kick some ass. I absolutely loved this exhibit. A lot of people don’t really like the heavy bold statements feminist art portrays but that is exactly what I like. Its good that these artist have this space, even though I loved it all, it still is not relevant to our social climate. I find that its empowering to be a women now a days and most of the social issues from the 60’s and 70’s are no longer relevant to our generation.
MOMA and the F'n Whitney Biennial
MOMA
Oh the MOMA. The MOMA was amazing! So much to look at
This is our fithday and well my mind is overly stimulated but I got it down I know to take sneaky pictures to how to move quickly through a museum to see everything I want and see everything and manage to met my group on time in the lobby.
The color exhibition I found to be boring so many color wheels and a lot of work dealing with the study of color it really wasn’t my thing. The only few things I like was the Dan Flavins “untitled to Don Judd” the series of florecent lights on the wall were not that visually pleasing but if you were one of the lucky few as my self that turned around and looked at the opposite side to come and find out that your shadow is in different colors and depending on the way you moved the color of your shadow would change depending on the light color behind you. This fact is what I liked the most some passers by thought I might have been crazy but it was really fascinating. A other work that I liked was On Kawara I saw his work at the Dia as well and I read about his work their so when I saw it again here at the MOMA I found to really appreciate it. Kawara makes his own pigment and paints on a canvas the month date and year he makes each of this painting on the day on which the date is written. So he makes his own pigments and paints on his canvas about from what I remember 5 layers and he puts the date on each one by hand with white acrylics, if he does not finish his painting on that day by midnight he then throws away the canvas and does a different one the next time. When he is finished he packages the canvas in a box of its own with a news paper of that date. All these facts made me appreciate his work.
So after seeing the Color exhibit like I said I was unimpressed, but I have to answer this question ‘What does color mean to me?’ hmmm… well this is a tuff one, because as a artist of more like a traditional black and white photographer I don’t ever really have to deal with color I mostly have to deal with a tonal ranges of lights, darks and grays. In some of my recent work making illustrations and graphic designs I do have to deal with color, and color is a very powerful thing. This question can be answered in so many ways and I want to take it to a more personal level then a artistic level. Color to me means life. I find it had to choose which colors to use when making a poster or a graphic design but somehow a good color always comes to me. I think im far from the answer that “needs” be stated but is there a right answer for what color means to ones self?
The Whitney SUCKED!!!!
it was a waste of time for the most part.
Their were only two cool things in the whole museum. A Spike Lee documentary on the families effected by Katrina and FEMA, it was interesting but I didn’t watch the whole thing I wanted to go see the rest of the terrible museum. And the second thing that I liked was a video called Omer Fast (1972) The Casting 2007. It was a look in a mans life who was in the military he was getting interviewed and the interviewer asked him something along the lines of what was the worst day of your life. He starts talking about the military and somehow switches to talk about when he met his German girlfriends family, he continues talking about the military and switching to his girlfriend. The switch happens very smoothly and one starts beginning to think how this man thinks, did the military really fucked his psyche up? It’s a very powerful film. This film was also portrayed on both front and back of a screen on one screen is the man speaking but everything he is explaining was their, on the other side was just the man sitting on a sofa with the interviewer. On that side it looks like the man is seeing a shrink and on the other side it just seems like a movie he is explaining.
Oh the MOMA. The MOMA was amazing! So much to look at
This is our fithday and well my mind is overly stimulated but I got it down I know to take sneaky pictures to how to move quickly through a museum to see everything I want and see everything and manage to met my group on time in the lobby.
The color exhibition I found to be boring so many color wheels and a lot of work dealing with the study of color it really wasn’t my thing. The only few things I like was the Dan Flavins “untitled to Don Judd” the series of florecent lights on the wall were not that visually pleasing but if you were one of the lucky few as my self that turned around and looked at the opposite side to come and find out that your shadow is in different colors and depending on the way you moved the color of your shadow would change depending on the light color behind you. This fact is what I liked the most some passers by thought I might have been crazy but it was really fascinating. A other work that I liked was On Kawara I saw his work at the Dia as well and I read about his work their so when I saw it again here at the MOMA I found to really appreciate it. Kawara makes his own pigment and paints on a canvas the month date and year he makes each of this painting on the day on which the date is written. So he makes his own pigments and paints on his canvas about from what I remember 5 layers and he puts the date on each one by hand with white acrylics, if he does not finish his painting on that day by midnight he then throws away the canvas and does a different one the next time. When he is finished he packages the canvas in a box of its own with a news paper of that date. All these facts made me appreciate his work.
So after seeing the Color exhibit like I said I was unimpressed, but I have to answer this question ‘What does color mean to me?’ hmmm… well this is a tuff one, because as a artist of more like a traditional black and white photographer I don’t ever really have to deal with color I mostly have to deal with a tonal ranges of lights, darks and grays. In some of my recent work making illustrations and graphic designs I do have to deal with color, and color is a very powerful thing. This question can be answered in so many ways and I want to take it to a more personal level then a artistic level. Color to me means life. I find it had to choose which colors to use when making a poster or a graphic design but somehow a good color always comes to me. I think im far from the answer that “needs” be stated but is there a right answer for what color means to ones self?
The Whitney SUCKED!!!!
it was a waste of time for the most part.
Their were only two cool things in the whole museum. A Spike Lee documentary on the families effected by Katrina and FEMA, it was interesting but I didn’t watch the whole thing I wanted to go see the rest of the terrible museum. And the second thing that I liked was a video called Omer Fast (1972) The Casting 2007. It was a look in a mans life who was in the military he was getting interviewed and the interviewer asked him something along the lines of what was the worst day of your life. He starts talking about the military and somehow switches to talk about when he met his German girlfriends family, he continues talking about the military and switching to his girlfriend. The switch happens very smoothly and one starts beginning to think how this man thinks, did the military really fucked his psyche up? It’s a very powerful film. This film was also portrayed on both front and back of a screen on one screen is the man speaking but everything he is explaining was their, on the other side was just the man sitting on a sofa with the interviewer. On that side it looks like the man is seeing a shrink and on the other side it just seems like a movie he is explaining.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Chelsea
Chelsea district has been my favorite day so far.
Brian Jungens work discussed the globalization of our culture today. I remember seeing his tribal masks made out of Nike shoes in one of my art classes, they made me really sad. When seeing the work I thought of how many native tribes are losing there own traditions, language, and land. I have a few friends that are Native American that don’t practice any traditio
ns. When seeing Jungens work it reminds me of western globalization people losing their traditions and being consumers whores. Jungen does a great job mixing them together.
I’m not sure how to word what I’m thinking and trying to say…
In the Casey Kaplan gallery press release it explains the “jerrycan”. It says that gallons such as this one, litters the landscapes, and these lands are rich in petroleum fields, but also lack fueling stations. He poked hundreds of holes in to this red gas gallon and made a beautiful dragon fly design. Representing the beaded works of native tribes.
The DIVA containers were like storage containers
placed across the streets in Chelsea they were really cool I thought the way that they are all on the street for anyone to walk into at their own risk was a great concept. I found only a few but the one DIVA that stood out to me was one that had tree projector screens. Each screen had different scenes but all together were the same movie. On the left screen was a man in a cages and it was raining and the water kept rising eventually he drowns, in the middle from my interpretation represented hell, it was showing naked bodies suffering, having orgies, getting burnt by small meteors, really gruesome things. In the right screen was a male a representation of Jesus sitting in a room a lot like a jail cell and he was just sitting there just waiting for something to happen. By far this triptych was my favorite. Their was so much going on and definitely something I would like to sit and watch again carefully.
Sadly the DIVAs did not have the name of the artist or a flier to take so Im not sure who the artist was.
The James Cohan Gallery was playing a animation from what i believe is called TABAIMO, again this one was a 3 panel screen. As soon as I laid eyes on this video my full-undivided attention was set. I have a 30 sec clip of it here. This video was well animated. It portrayed a women’s public restroom, you see a women change her pad, a women dropping her phone in the toilet and a women looking in the mirror most the time, the thing about this whole thing is a perv is out side the bathroom and sends in these mechanical butterflies to take pictures of the women inside the bathrooms. Its comical and entertaining.
The other gallery that I enjoy and it
showed Max Lang work. His work was very sexual which I like. Right when you walk in the gallery a video is playing at first I had no clue what it was or what was going on but as I paid close attention I noticed that objects moving around are dildos and different sex toys, and a bunny is dancing around while this psychedelic music is playing, and a dragon is moving in the background. It was such a trippy video. As you walked along the gallery you see digital images from the video they look as if the dildos were made of glass but the images were definitely digitally made.
All in all Chelsea was so much fun and it was a great time to get to know people from the group and to walk around freely in the streets with out museum security constantly telling us that photography is not allowed.
Brian Jungens work discussed the globalization of our culture today. I remember seeing his tribal masks made out of Nike shoes in one of my art classes, they made me really sad. When seeing the work I thought of how many native tribes are losing there own traditions, language, and land. I have a few friends that are Native American that don’t practice any traditio
ns. When seeing Jungens work it reminds me of western globalization people losing their traditions and being consumers whores. Jungen does a great job mixing them together.I’m not sure how to word what I’m thinking and trying to say…
In the Casey Kaplan gallery press release it explains the “jerrycan”. It says that gallons such as this one, litters the landscapes, and these lands are rich in petroleum fields, but also lack fueling stations. He poked hundreds of holes in to this red gas gallon and made a beautiful dragon fly design. Representing the beaded works of native tribes.
The DIVA containers were like storage containers
placed across the streets in Chelsea they were really cool I thought the way that they are all on the street for anyone to walk into at their own risk was a great concept. I found only a few but the one DIVA that stood out to me was one that had tree projector screens. Each screen had different scenes but all together were the same movie. On the left screen was a man in a cages and it was raining and the water kept rising eventually he drowns, in the middle from my interpretation represented hell, it was showing naked bodies suffering, having orgies, getting burnt by small meteors, really gruesome things. In the right screen was a male a representation of Jesus sitting in a room a lot like a jail cell and he was just sitting there just waiting for something to happen. By far this triptych was my favorite. Their was so much going on and definitely something I would like to sit and watch again carefully.Sadly the DIVAs did not have the name of the artist or a flier to take so Im not sure who the artist was.
The James Cohan Gallery was playing a animation from what i believe is called TABAIMO, again this one was a 3 panel screen. As soon as I laid eyes on this video my full-undivided attention was set. I have a 30 sec clip of it here. This video was well animated. It portrayed a women’s public restroom, you see a women change her pad, a women dropping her phone in the toilet and a women looking in the mirror most the time, the thing about this whole thing is a perv is out side the bathroom and sends in these mechanical butterflies to take pictures of the women inside the bathrooms. Its comical and entertaining.
The other gallery that I enjoy and it
showed Max Lang work. His work was very sexual which I like. Right when you walk in the gallery a video is playing at first I had no clue what it was or what was going on but as I paid close attention I noticed that objects moving around are dildos and different sex toys, and a bunny is dancing around while this psychedelic music is playing, and a dragon is moving in the background. It was such a trippy video. As you walked along the gallery you see digital images from the video they look as if the dildos were made of glass but the images were definitely digitally made.All in all Chelsea was so much fun and it was a great time to get to know people from the group and to walk around freely in the streets with out museum security constantly telling us that photography is not allowed.
Monday, March 24, 2008
The Dia: Beacon
The Dia was really great a lot of great artist were in this museum such as Andy Warhol, Walter De Maria, Fred Sandback, Robert Smithson, On Kawara, Donald Judd, and many more.
Donald Judd’s piece I believe is called “wall” really blew me away. It a really simple piece but it really made me think hard on why I think the way that I do. Where do my preconceptions come from? This piece threw off my equilibrium. When I noticed the wall I wondered, whats going to be at the bottom; is it going to scare me? Will it be good? Will it interest me? I wonder if there is a alligator down there? And the closer I got the more I wondered what was behind the wall. Then next thing I know I can see over the wall and its just a slope from the top edge of the wall to the corner meeting the wall and floor. This conceptual piece works for me because it works with the viewers imagination as well as the viewers interactions with the piece. Easily anyone can miss this piece and just walk right by it.
And just for kicks and entertainment our tour guide said “aah”’s and “eeh”’s through out the tour 155 times YES I did keep count after the first 5 min when I realized that he would be doing it a lot through out the tour, and he also said “Blah blah blah” 12 times when he was assuming that we all knew what he was talking about.
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