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.
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