Saturday, February 28, 2015
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Madonna and Child Redux
22" x 30" Cyanotype and Gum Bichromate Print on Cotton Fiber Paper.
Circles cut out, re-oriented, and re-secured.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Saturday, February 14, 2015
True Stuff
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” - Susan Sontag
Friday, February 13, 2015
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Group 2 Residency Summary
Group 2 Residency Summary
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I entered my second residency with a body of
work that was widely varied in technique and medium.
·
As I sat there speaking with my fellow
residents, I started to think more about what I was doing, and what I was
saying. Not that I hadn’t already done this, but that they were asking
questions that prompted additional thought.
·
I don’t understand anyone else’s experience,
only my own. Therefore, is it possible to speak for others? Can I only speak
for myself? Is my experience that unique?
·
What is my sense of self? What is my legacy? Do
I fear my own demise? I belong to no “group”. I’m white, male, middle aged, not
ethnic, not religious….I am…..vanilla. Really?
·
Group Critiques with non-advising faculty; B.Wurtz, Ben Sloat (although he was my advisor), and Cesare Pietroiusti
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Recommendations
§
Paul Schimmel – Destroying the Picture, Painting
the Void
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Sterling Ruby
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Lucio Fontana
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Yves Klein
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Huma Baba
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Doris Salcado
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Eva Hesse
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Alina Tugend - Better by Mistake
·
Critical Theory II with Ben Sloat: The Archive
o
Very interesting lectures
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Trevor Paglen
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Charles Ray
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Robert Smithson
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Do Ho Sult
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Cai Guo Qiang
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Hans Haacke
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Mark Dion
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Art is the critical foil to dominant culture.
·
Not interested in objects, interested in ideas
about object
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Camille Henrot
o
“Grosse fatigue”
·
Joan Fontcuberta
·
Plato
·
Last meeting with last semesters advisor (Ben
Sloat)
o
Recommended artists
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Lee Bontacue
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Lucien Fontaine
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Sam Taylor Wood
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Shimamoto
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Shomay Tomatsu
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Liz Deschennes
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Brian Graft
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Alberto Giacometti
o
Talked about not completing the photo, leaving
it “unfinished”
o
Impose restraints on self
o
Tolerating the disarray
o
Don’t use visual mechanisms to direct viewer
o
Avoid the “Orgy of evidence”
·
Content of personal memories
·
Digging into my own story
·
Explore leftovers
·
Storage and creation of memory
·
False memories
·
“The most powerful thing you can do is to
relinquish power.”
·
“Loss and Possibility” elective seminar with
Cesare Pietroiusti
o
Creation of symbols is an activity that we
subjectively do to elaborate and interpret reality
o
When we lose something, we create a symbol to
compensate for this loss
o
Artist needs to be both active and receptive
o
Introjection vs. Projection
o
Learn to synthesize contradictions
o
Good Breast vs. Bad Breast
·
First Meeting with New Advisor Deb Todd Wheeler
o
Space between intention and interpretation
o
“Maximilism” – the edge of too much
o
David Emit Adams
o
Martha Rossler
o
Art object as a catalyst for memory
o
Accumulated fragments attempting to make a whole
·
Artist Talks
o
B. Wurtz
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Nancy Shaver
o
Oliver Wasow
o
Thierry DeDuve
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Graduating Student Critiques
o
Richard Strong
o
Brian Wilson
o
Miah Johnson
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Non Advisor Critiques
o
Judith Barry
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Memorial Culture
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Mya Lin
·
Mark Bradford
§
Constructionist Photography
·
Douglas hubler
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Jan Grover
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Robert Heineken
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Judith Williamson – Decoding Advertisemnts
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“Beauty is the beginning of terror which we are
barely able to endure.” – Rainer Maria Wilke
o
Tony Apesos
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“Make sure that the work is you, and that you
don’t become the work.”
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“There is nothing wrong with romanticism.”
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Reading List
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Liz Wells – Photographic Reader
o
Charlotte Cotton – The Photograph as
Contemporary Art
o
Geoffrey Batchen – Each Wild Idea
o
Geoffrey Batchen – Burning with Desire
o
Daniel Resberg – The Science of Perception and
Memory
o
David McRaney – Why Your Memory is Mostly
Fiction
o
Joseph Cornell – Master of Dreams
o
Judith Williamson – Decoding Advertisements
The Wise Man
"Make sure the work is you, and that you don't become the work." Tony Apesos to me during a non-advisor critique.
Ponderings
- · I entered my second residency with a body of work that was widely varied in technique and medium.
- · As I sat there speaking with my fellow residents, I started to think more about what I was doing, and what I was saying. Not that I hadn’t already done this, but that they were asking questions that prompted additional thought.
- · I don’t understand anyone else’s experience, only my own. Therefore, is it possible to speak for others? Can I only speak for myself? Is my experience that unique?
- · What is my sense of self? What is my legacy? Do I fear my own demise? I belong to no “group”. I’m white, male, middle aged, not ethnic, not religious….I am…..vanilla. Really?
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