#limitsfall2023

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Artist Presentation - Laure Prouvost

Image Information (in order):

Above Front Tears Oui Float (Installation View), 2022

Four For See Beauties (Still), 15 minutes, 2022

YOU HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE, Oil and varnish on wood, 30 x 40 centimeters, 2016

This Means Embracing, Oil paint and collaged text on paper, 2020

OH STAY WITH US THE PARTY HAS JUST BEGUN ("You are deeper than you think" Installation View), 2019

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LIMITS: Final Index

6. Text-Based Sculpture: Research #1, #2, #3

7. Text-Based Sculpture: Final I

8. Text-Based Sculpture: Final II

9. Manifesto: A Collaboration: Research #1, #2, #3

10. Manifesto: A Collaboration: Final I

11. Manifesto: A Collaboration: Final II

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Manifesto: A Collaboration - final project (two)

untitled (ArtCar), Jeep Renegade, 6 books, a laundry bag, 4 pillow, canvas, clothespins, 28 PVC tubes, foam, packing tape, dog treats, plastic drop cloth, luggage covered in silicon, 4 bags of shredded paper, a glass jar, metal brackets, a lightbulb, a lantern, a lambchop toy, Grimace figure, a box of tissues, MKTMMXXIII, 30 tubes of craft paint, stickers, plastic garbage bags, 3 kinds of rope, an airfreshener, measuring cups, a roll of paper towels, a whisk, a dog seat belt, 3 beach towels, a knife, a spoon, a 10 lb bag of plaster, KN95 masks, resin, 5 comforters, bamboo sticks, thinly cut pine wood, a pair of shoes, glass inside a bucket, 2 water bottles, a lunch box, lampshades, and more, 167 x 74 x 67 inches, 2023

As MFA students who are due to graduate in May, Rebeca and I have been dealing with the question of what to do with all our art belongings once we are asked to vacate our studios. At the same time, in the last couple of years that I have been a student I have been dealing with what I call a "bad case of "Art Car", which means that my car is so full of supplies that I cannot comfortably drive myself from place to place (or offer any friends a ride to somewhere they may want to go). For this project, we decided to lean into both of these thoughts and fill my car with as much stuff from between my studio and Rebeca's. The resulting work in a delicately balanced combination of both our studio spaces, and in a way our entire identities since entering the program, reduced to the size of my car.

Although uncomfortable to confront the amount of stuff we both have accumulated these last three years (especially when it came to unloading the car and putting everything back...), I think this piece was a good exercise for us. We started to think not just about its value as an artifact from our specific experiences as art students, but also as an investigation of the art of collection/accumulation and how works of this nature can be understood by a non-art student audience.

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Manifesto: A Collaboration - final project (one)

untitled (speakershelf), wood shelf, acoustic amp, and iPad, 38 x 29 inches, 2023

Rebeca and I first approached this project by comparing artistic preferences and sensibilities. We both tend to lean towards minimal interventions on found objects, so one of the first things we did was scour a handful of Goodwill stores for an object we wanted to react to. We came across two shoddily built shoe racks (no offense to the original owner/builder) and felt like we could do something interesting with them. Rebeca expressed interest in wrapping the shelves in plastic as a reference to furniture covers often used when moving. I was interested in the idea of packaging a previously discarded object that we had purchased from a donation based thrift store. When considering what to do with the shelves beyond wrapping them, I mentioned my interest in using sound as evidence of process. Rebeca suggested that we record the audio of us altering the shelves to make room for the amp that was going to be playing said audio. I liked this idea - to give the amp something to play and somewhere to sit, we had to permanently alter the thing that it would be playing and sitting on. The amp, carefully nestled between the jagged ribs of the shelves, became a thing that demanded attention in a visual and auditory sense.

For the piece as it exists currently, I do not feel any particular fondness for the plastic cover. I do appreciate the way the heated plastic clings to the edges of the shelves, but other than that I am more interested in how the amp occupies a space that was specially carved out for it; if there were to be another iteration of this work, I would focus primarily on that.

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Final Index Limits Fall II

6. Text-Based Sculpture: Research

Idea 3

Idea 2

Idea 1

7. Text-Based Sculpture: Final I

8. Text-Based Sculpture: Final II

9. Manifesto: A Collaboration: Research

    Other research

10. Manifesto: A Collaboration: Final I

11. Manifesto: A Collaboration: Final II

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A collaborative art sculpture with 54 identical-cut wood pieces installed to resemble the interactive Jenga® game but life-sized. the unique intervention by the 3 artists brings a materiality component and a diverse selection of materials that add a twist to the original. The coming together of working on a collaborative project is a melding of three very different mindsets. It approaches to art, each adding their flavor to make this a fun interactive piece.

Materials:

found wood 2x4

yarn, paper, cork, vinyl wrap, paint, metal, wire, foil tape, rope,foam

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Manifesto: A Collaboration Project Mood Board - three

I often find myself unable to give my classmates and friends comfortable rides in my car, and the primary reason for that is because I have a case of "Art Car". Art Car is what I call it when my car is so full to the brim of art supplies that passengers do not fit inside (and some times, neither do I). For this work, I want to exaggerate how much art related stuff I can fit in my car by using the contents of both my and Rebeca's studios.

First image is work by Kerry Phillips

Third image is work by Thomas Hirschhorn