alex's art blog!!

--- afo work 2016/2017 ---

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these are my final pieces for surface this semester. i originally was going to make a large sculpture piece, but because of some personal issues, i was unable to finish it. instead, i tried to create a small painting tat was personal to my experience over the past few weeks, highlighting my own faults and problems. this piece was more about making something for myself that i didn’t have to think about and that i didn’t have to worry about it looking “right”. i used this project as a tool to help me relieve some of the stress and anxiety i’ve been feeling for the past few weeks. i don’t love these pieces, but i think it was important for time to make them and take some time to think about my own problems and try to work through them.

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here is a video of one of my surface projects, in which i research ed paschke's work and then made a piece inspired by him. he was very interested in the ways that technology affect us as people and our art, particularly television, so i created a video project in which i recited a monologue from The Twilight Zone (a popular TV show during the time he made work) and burned it to play on a DVD on the television.

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here is a photo of my last video project for surface. this post will be followed by a post of the TV playing the video, and i will also upload the actual video itself to video and link it here! i created the table that the television and the dvd player rest on, and burned the video that i made to the dvd. the dvd plays a video that i made, of a character that i play reciting a monologue from The Twilight Zone. 

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time project #3

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separate link for performance #1

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stills from my surface performance

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drawing stuff from last semester! top: "mom and me", ink and embroidery on muslin, middle left: figure drawing from class, middle right: "fingerprints", self portrait done in charcoal fingerprints, bottom left: "morph", self portrait with face of my dog, bottom right: figure drawing practice

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space research work from fall semester! top two: tree stumps made of clay, middle left: “blue jean baby” jacket made of vintage denim, middle right: “doghouse” monument to dogs made of wood, bottom two: breast made of 16+ materials

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My favorite gallery that we visited last week had to have been ADA. The current show features a little-known Grenadian artist named Thaddeus LaCrette, who has worked on these huge beaded sculptures for most of his adult life (upwards of 25 years). His work tells the stories of African slave trade in different countries, and highlights the importance of African history. Through the intricate beading, LaCrette explored life, history, and religion to form a cohesive body of work. The main characters (top two photos) are representations of the artists’ parents, connecting a familiar feel to his work. This show completely blew me away; in talking with one of the guys at the gallery, we learned that the work was so large that they had to take out a wall of his home to get it to the gallery. The artist has dedicated his whole life to this kind of work, which is so inspiring to me. The stories the gallery curator told us about his life were amazing, and seeing the work in person was awesome. I definitely feel more motivated to make large-scale work and try out new materials and ways of working (such as beading!) since seeing this show.

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colors for surface: split complimentary, analogous, secondary triad, primary triad, complimentary, and monochromatic!

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wanna document this a little better, but Mushy Tom Jones is done! 🎉 second surface project

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first time project! 

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progress shots of my first Surface project, Mushy Tom Jones

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"splat" - first time project! happy with how this turned out, even if it doesn’t follow my original idea completely