Monday, April 4, 2011
Pared: Matthew Deleget + Ellen Nagel at U·turn Art Space
Sunday, April 3, 2011
weenie animation of the day
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Everyone can be Ryan Mulligan
I went to Ryan Mulligan's solo show at semantics this weekend and was impressed with the amount of work he produced for this show. There were two rooms of small paintings and drawings and a large Wall mural. I know his process is pretty quick, but I love the direction his work is going. It seems to be taking a more abstract turn from his last show I attended at the Westin last year. That show was much more about drawing/depicting real objects in a false space. This work seems much more about abstraction, movement, and design. I'm happy to seem him take a turn towards more expressive and less illustrative work. I am excited to see where he takes these forms and colors in the next few years. Objects of his drawings maybe?
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
People Who Make Us Smile. U turn.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Grad Poster Forum!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Contrast/MGGM
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Monday, February 28, 2011
YES! Gallery
Jimmy Baker at the CAC
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Today Show
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Yes/No/Maybe
Monday, February 14, 2011
Push>Play
Sunday, February 13, 2011
sneak peak
Friday, February 11, 2011
a little statement and what I have been reading
I am constructing a visual representation of the body's relationship to itself and surroundings by abstracting its interiors and creating my own understanding of its systems. I remain true to these systems, and by doing so, I introduce a language that poetically communicates sensuality, pain, burden, and expression. In creating my own flux, I take control of the natural body - an attempt to establish visual harmony and order to what cannot be understood. My intent is to enable beauty to emanate from these seemingly arbitrary medical conditions and breakdowns.
I am interested in the medical tools and machinery that measure, examine, and diagnose our bodies. I've been exploring this connectivity by questioning people about their medical conditions and mapping them through my language.
Intuitively, I am using the processes of printmaking and animation as a means of abstraction and narration of another's experience. Through the employment of such applications, I intend to compel my audience to witness a "shadowed fraction" of the physical experience.
"Vaguely alarming yet unreal, laden with consequence yet evaporating before the mind because not available to sensory confirmation, unseeable classes of objects such as subterranean plates, Seyfert galaxies, and the pains occurring in other people’s bodies flicker before the mind, then disappear...
Then when one speaks about “one’s own physical pain” and about “another person’s physical pain,” one might almost appear to be speaking about two wholly distinct orders of events. For the person whose pain it is, it is “effortlessly” grasped (that is, even with the most heroic effort it cannot not be grasped), while for the person outside the the sufferer’s body, what is “effortless” is not grasping it (it is easy to remain wholly unaware of its existence; even with effort, one may remain in doubt about its existence or may retain the astonishing freedom of denying its existence; and finally, if with the best effort of sustained attention one successfully apprehends it, the aversiveness of the “it” one apprehends will only be a shadowy fraction of the actual “it”)." ~The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry
When talking about primitive man, “Their most powerful urge was, so to speak, to wrest the object of the external world out of its natural context, out of the unending flux of being, to purify it of all its dependence upon life, i.e. of everything about it that was arbitrary, to render it necessary and irrefragable, to approximate it to its absolute value. Where they were successful in this, they experienced that happiness and satisfaction which the beauty of organic vital form affords us; indeed, they knew no other beauty, and therefore we may term it their beauty.” ~Abstraction and Empathy. Wilhelm Worringer
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
Sheddings: Works on Paper by Michael Smith
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
trying.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
IMAGE!
1st attempt at stop action.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Co is for collaborative.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
So I'm Gonna Try it Again!
Alright, its about that time to start a blog again. This will now not only let you guys know what shows I go to, but also what has been going on in my studio. This will let all of my friends who aren't in cincinnati with me right now keep up with my work and art adventures. Phew, this is going to be a challenge, but worth it I think.