Art Statement #2 Feedback Session
Art Statement #2 is due today, posted to your blogs. Together in a small group, read each artist’s statements for the first part of class time.
Work together to give honest critical feedback on how theses words are operating in relationship to the artists work. Isolate the parts of each statement version that offer the most specific information about the work. Help each other to identify the parts of the statement versions that are redundant, general and unnecessary, or vague.
After each artist has their statement feedback, you are free to work independently in your studios for the remaining class session.
Images above:
These images are by artist Carmen Argote for her current artist in residence project at 18th Street Art Center in Los Angeles. Check out the show, on view through March 23rd, called “If only if were that easy”.
From the press release:
“As a multidisciplinary artist working in installation, Carmen Argote explore notions of home and place, interacting with architecture to reflect on personal histories and her own immigrant experience. She works with places and materials that surround her, utilizing local resources as points to expand from. Her practice uses the act of inhabiting as a starting point, allowing the work to take form as she respond to a space, materials and ideas developing from her own experiences and relationships to a site.
She works from an intimate and personal place, using shared experiences to connect the spaces that house us to notions of home and self. Often working with family, she explores the common immigrant experience as a layered, multigenerational, transnational experience that is echoed though shared memories, traumas, and aspirations, extending outward from the intimate space of home.
During her Artist Lab residency, Carmen Argote will be developing a performance on January 20, 2018 titled If only it were that easy… for the Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA. An amateur motorcycle rally organized around an architectural mind map of the artist’s making, the work centers on a social exploration of motorcycle riding as a cognitive dream space akin to the “zone” or “flow” of artistic creation, inviting artists and culture workers who ride motorcycles themselves to collectively teach the artists about riding and about life.”
