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Jessica Alipio

Extra Credit Assignment

The piece I made above was inspired by the artist, Barbara Kruger. Most of her work is composed of black-and-white photographs with declarative phrases on them, the words being in white font on a red rectangular background. Her work reflects cultural constructs of power, identity, and sexuality. As Kruger explains it, “pictures and words seem to become the rallying points for certain assumptions. There are assumptions of truth and falsity and I guess the narratives of falsity are called fictions. I replicate certain words and watch them stray from or coincide with the notions of fact and fiction” (from Wikipedia).

I have a huge passion for education, and I believe that given the opportunity, people can become someone better by gaining knowledge in a field and developing a career from their studies. However, as much as I believe that education is not only a tool, but also an opportunity to leave a worse life for a potentially better one (especially for low-income 1st generation students like me), I also believe that the current education system is lacking in resources for students to get a proper education and become true masters in their field of study. I believe that the education system could be better, but I think that some people (like those who share my background) don’t realize how much better it can be, and through our ignorance, we settle for the current situation. Unfortunately, I think that the people who run universities and the education system strive off that ignorance; as long as they think/see that we’re satisfied by giving us a diploma on graduation day, that is enough, they don’t have to improve the education model. However, I feel that we have to fix that method of thinking: that the end goal is not to get a diploma and be satisfied with that piece of paper, rather to become a true student of Knowledge and Wisdom and become satisfied with the contributions/products we make to help improve the way of life for all communities in this world (humans, animals, plants, etc.).

I made this piece to show the contradiction between us getting verification of our education because we receive a diploma to prove it, and the thought that there might be more than a diploma we can get from our education system.

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Jessica Alipio

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Extra Credit Art Assignment (sorry- late)

My art project reflects a few concepts and artists covered this winter quarter in Art10D. I have a deep love for the ocean and it’s flora and fauna, I consider it my sanctuary and favored place of refuge. Since moving to Santa Cruz a few months ago, I have developed a liking for the area. I decided to pay a tribute to Santa Cruz and the amazing environment it resides in, by drawing lettering which is meant to resemble its native flora and fauna. It is my intention for the viewers to feel a sense of pride for Santa Cruz and the surrounding coast, considering it has one of the most amazing diversity of wildlife. Also, I feel that Santa Cruz’s culture is largely built around its nature and a deep appreciation of art. I want my art piece to invoke the “essence” of Santa Cruz from an environmentally conscious standpoint. I feel the more we can incorporate imagery of our native flora and fauna into art and even language styles (like my lettering), people will naturally be more aware and likely to make decisions which respect and sustain our ecosystems.

I was greatly inspired by Ernst Haeckel’s artwork. His naturalist style and depiction of sea life appeals to me a lot. Though my depictions of nature aren’t as detailed as Ernst’s work, he has greatly inspired my undertaking of this art project. My art project was also inspired by the California artist Ed Ruscha, who experimented with words and organic themes. Being from California, his imagery often reflected it as a means of embodying the “essence” and feelings of certain natural features.

Steven Wertheimer

Section F

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Extra Credit: Chuck Close

For what it may or may not still be worth, I made dis.

Chuck Close creates beautiful portraits that construct the organic facial curvatures of his subjects through oblong concentric circles that fit themselves into squares. Bright, and seemingly random (to the non-painters) colors are blended by the eye in a chromal melting pot, reflective of how our eyes interpret the blue, green, red of computer screens into all colors on the spectrum. His paintings play doubly on our dialectical understanding of the individual and the whole; by challenging our perceptions of distance and perspective. The messy concentric circles exist individually, yet also as a part of a collective square unit. Up close, the painting is apparently visual gibberish with subtle patterns. However, much like cosmic background radiation, by taking a step back to appreciate each unit as part of a larger picture, the gibberish reveals a consciousness and deliberacy. My work emerged from a curiosity around making random gibberish that harmonized into a synchronous message. This required a loosening of my rigid photorealist training and cultivating a sense of intuitive color interpretation. To further intrigue the viewer, I chose to leave many spaces empty and provide only enough visual information for the viewer to understand not only the content of the painting, but also the quality of light present in the original image. Light is so important, light is what brings an image to our hearts. Light decides what part of the story is told.

Heather McLean

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Jazmine Durazo Section G TA: Austin Project: Cyanotype

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Jazmine Durazo 

Section G Last Project: Words  “My Heart Is A Battleground.”

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Ge Song 

Extra Credit

Section G

My extra credit project is inspired by the artist Yves Klein, who uses the human body as a life painting brush, which is a very attractive idea I think. He puts blue pigment on a human body and uses the human body as a brush to draw on the canvas. Also, most of his drawings are in ultramarine color, which he names “International Klein Blue”. He says, “blue is beyond dimensions and whereas other colors are not.” It is cool. In my extra credit project, I also wanted to use the human body as a brush tool to draw something. I think the movement of the body and the body form on Klein’s work, Anthropométrie sans titre is impressive. On his work, Klein had the nude models press or lay themselves across the canvas to create the bodily impression. We could clearly see the body shape, especially where the arms or legs are going, which is interesting. For my project, I used phone lights instead of the pigment and decorates the lights on a human body. Moreover, I used a digital camera to capture the movement of the lights in a dark place in the night when the human body is moving. I used the time lapse exposure function of the digital camera, and tried five minutes, ten minutes and two minutes time lapse to capture the movement and fluxion of the light as the body is moving.

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Raissa Boysen - Frank Stella Inspired

I liked the idea of working with Frank Stella’s use of line. It’s a very graphic and geometric style which I don’t often work with. I used this project more for experimentation to try something different from what I’m normally used to which is semi-realism.

Other than Frank’s more various choice of colors I decided to stick with different values of blue. I played with shapes and trying to get the width of the lines as equal as possible. Something I noticed with Frank’s work is that it is strictly line work. I wanted to try adding something more representational and settled on zebras so that I could immerse them by connecting the two different types of line. I chose to work with photoshop because of its more crisp and graphic quality for the cleaner look. It allowed me to play around more with composition and the positioning of the zebras, as well as try out different colors as I went along. I wanted to see how the piece would change depending on which lines I made lighter to pop out and which I made darker. I found that changing the value of blue with each line made the piece pop more. I chose to post two slightly different versions of this piece to show the flexibility I have in changing colors, and to show how the light and dark changes the dynamic of the piece.

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Jemerson Macalino

Section G

Cyanotype 

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Shayen-Joe Sakr 

Section F

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Ge Song

Section G

Cynotypes

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“The World is a Menagerie of Light and Color”

Extra Credit Project

Sean Yap

Section F

The artist I drew inspiration from for my extra credit project was Anish Kapoor and his powder pigment sculptures.  The way that Kapoor experiments with color in his pieces drew me to his work.  His powder pigment sculptures are geometric or free form figures completely coated in pigment powder of a singular color normally used during Holi Festival, the Hindu festival of color, love, and spring. The solid covering of pigment on the sculptures make it seem like the sculptures are made of pure color; conveying the sense of physicality to the color being used.  The monochrome pigment coat on Kapoor’s sculptures also blur the edges of the sculptures’ shapes, giving off a spatial illusion.  For my project, I took it a step further from Kapoor’s premise and used colored resin to create my sculptures.  To color the pigment, I tried experimenting with food coloring and water color paints, but ended up using small amounts of acrylic paint which gave the best results.  My choice to use colored resin was to put a focus on the colors used in the sculptures, reduce the impact of the sculpture shapes, make the edges indistinguishable when looking at the pieces, and let the viewer be able to use light to blend the sculptures’ colors when shuffling the sculptures around, changing their perspective.  Giving the viewer the ability to blend the colors of the different sculptures let them exercise their understanding of the color wheel.  

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Section G

Teresa Tenocelotl

Project #3

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Teresa Tenocelotl