Art Statement #2, plus art to see in Los Angeles...
For your next statement draft, we will be writing several shorter versions of your art statement, honing in on one or two aspects of your work in each version. These statements should be about your current practice as specifically as possible, ultimately aiming your thinking and ideas towards creating a related body of artworks.
Craft each art statement version to the prompts below as concisely and specifically as you can. Each art statement version should about 1 paragraph in length. Consider each word careful and avoid redundancy.
Art Statement Version #1: Descriptive
Write about the specific forms your artwork takes. This should include what it looks like and how it is made. This could include description of your art process, material use, medium and subject matter as it relates to how you want your work to be understood.
Art Statement Version #2: Concepts and Influence
Write about the specific ideas and concepts at work in your art. If possible, talk about the specific ideas of the body of work you hope to present in your senior show. This should indicate what the work means to you and how you hope others view and relate to it. This could include discussion of your influences, personal relationships and background information helpful to understanding the works ideas, description of ideas or concepts from other disciplines that inform your practice, as well as ideas about how you have crafted your work to engage and inform the viewer.
Art Statement Version #3: Non Art Audience Statement
Write about your artwork including what the work looks like, how its made and what it means to you for an audience that is not educated in art. Imagine you are explaining what you do as an artist to your Mom, a childhood friend, or someone you just met. Think about how you can communicate the essence of what you are is as succinctly as possible in a way that can be understood and appreciated for what it is by a non art educated audience.
Art Statement Version #4: Discipline Specific Statement
Write about your work in the context of the medium, discipline or processes your work employs. Think deeply about the specific context surrounding your discipline and where your work fits into that larger conversation. How does your work add and contribute to the ideas at work in the contemporary use of your specific medium or discipline? How does your work fit into the historical uses of your medium? What ideas and concepts in your work are specifically related to the contemporary art discussions in and around your art medium or discipline?
Art Statement #2 is due Tuesday March 8th.
Please post all 4 versions of your art statement to your blog by the start of class on this date. Use the hashtag #artstatement2 to make your statement easy to identify.
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Some art to see around Los Angeles....
The first two images are from a group show called “The Feminine Sublime” on view at the Pasadena Museum of California Art until June 3rd. The top image is a painting by Merion Estes and the second image is a mixed media work by Virginia Katz. Other artists in the show include: Yvette Gellis, Constance Mallinson and Marie Thibeault.
The next image is by artist Louise Bourgeois from a show of her drawings called The Red Sky at Hauser and Wirth, Los Angeles through May.
“The Theater of Disappearance” is a site specific project by artist Adrian Villar Rojas at MOCA, Geffen Contemporary through May 13th.
This painting by Rema Ghuloum is on view at Jaus, part of a 2 person show with HK Zamani that opens this weekend and is on view until early April.
I keep seeing images of what looks like an amazing show by Yevgeniya Baras in my social media feeds. The exhibition is called “Toward Something Standing Open” and is on view at the Landing through March 10th.