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Final Imagined Project

Nature is at the root of most of the art that interests me and art that attracts my eye. I believe that not enough contemporary art contains nature, but is more imagined images. My exhibition, if I were to have my own, would consist of modern forms of landscape. I think that landscape is being lost in today’s art, but there are some artists, even if it is rare, that do not get enough credit because their work is not as concept based. I would like to use artists, including myself, that try to elevate the idea of landscape. My Favorite artist right now is Christine Rusche. She does huge wall drawings that give the illusion of landscapes but are really not. The Room Drawings by Christine Rusche (wall-drawings, sculptures and architectural interventions) emphasize and dismantle the architecture of physical space –not as a deception or illusion–, but in an attempt to create a new perspective on the image and on space. – In framed spaces (drawings on paper), the space is in the paper. The abstract ‘flatland’ is closed off and only to be watched from a distance. I think this is a very progressive way to view landscape. I admire here and her work because she found a new way to create the impression of a landscape without actual depicting one. She has inspired me to push my artwork in a more abstract direction, and to this of landscape from a different perspective. Most people think landscape as being “old fashion” but I believe that in the future it will become more popular again because it relates to more of a broader audience. As more and more people become comfortable with art, and realize how important it is, as I believe it will in the future, landscape will become more prominent. Landscape is disappearing all over the world every day, at a very fast pace and once its gone completely people will realize how important scenery and countryside is to people. I believe that our country especially will loose vast areas of land very fast, and to me painting is a way that I can preserve the nature I love. I want to show people in my most recent work how fast our environment we live in is disappearing into cities and developed suburbia. To me nature is my escape from the real world, and the concrete jungle that we live in our everyday lives. This I think has to do with most of my childhood memories being in Lake Tahoe, California. I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in nature, and it influenced my life, as well as my art as I grew up. My dream would be to travel the world exploring new and interesting vast landscapes and finding beauty where other people do not, as well as showing the world what they are missing out on by not taking the time to admire what we have in the world. In my gallery I would want to give other artists the chance to display their landscape inspired work, because I know how hard it is for that kind of work to make it into large galleries unless the person is already an established artist because it is not fit as well into the contemporary art scene. I think that my art has taken a turn towards finding a way to represent the disappearing landscape by depicting isolation in my work. I think that people don’t get to experience true isolation in nature anymore because there is always something or someone else around. I am trying to experiment with what ways I can depict that. I have found drawing and photo are some of the best ways to do that.

Picking ten works for my exhibit would be difficult because a lot of people do not use landscape in their works. I would defiantly pick Christine Rusche to be in my gallery as well as Curtis man because he works in a way that looks at landscapes in a different way. He is a very interesting photographer as well, and is innovative in the way he works with materials. Robert Adams also is a great photographer that has great landscapes in his collection that depict a sense of loneliness I am trying to get in my artwork as well. My ideal space would be a large square warehouse, in an industrial area. I would not want any definite floor plan because I think that the different artists playing off each other would show how many different ways landscapes could be depicted in one space. Their artwork that I would like included has been posted in previous blog entries. I would want the artists work to play off each other to all show the isolation and loneliness in large vast landscapes.
Titling the Show as well as my pieces is where I have the most issues. I would like to ask your advice on good names and titles. I feel like titles are always a work in progress.

Christine Rusche

Christine Rusche also has a new way of creating the illusion of landscape without depicting actual forms.

Vija celmins

Vija celmins –paints landscapes from photographs but have no definite referance point, horizon or discernible depth of field

Teruya yuken

Teruya yuken is an artist that works with paper and trees in a new and unigue ways, commenting on the way landscapes are missing because of our society. I would like to include this art work in my exhibit.

Robert adams

Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who came to prominence as part of the photographic movement known as New Topographics. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980, and he received the MacArthur Foundation’s MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. In 2009, he received the Hasselblad Award for his achievements in photography.[1] He is represented by the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.

Michael Bell-Smith

Michael Bell-Smith is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Bell-Smith’s work utilizes digital forms to explore the use of popular technologies in contemporary visual culture.

Bell-Smith received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Semiotics from Brown University in 2001. His work has been exhibited internationally, including The New Museum, New York; Foxy Production, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia; LISTE, Basel, Switzerland; Galeri F15, Moss, Norway; Threshold Artspace, Perth, Scotland; The Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Vilma Gold, London; BankART, Yokohama, Japan; Glassbox, Paris; PROJEKT 0047, Berlin; and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Bell-Smith’s work is held in the collection of Hirschhorn Museum, Washington DC, as well as numerous private collections in North America, Asia and Europe. In 2001 he was awarded the William and Alethe Weston Fine Arts Award in Media Production. He is represented by Foxy Production in New York.

Jimmy Baker

info Jimmy Baker’s variety of working media presents the inevitable chaos of futuristic digital culture in form of highly refined aesthetics. Classical portraiture, iPods, photography, sculpture and hacked cell phones describe a variety of global concerns that accumulate into a grim dystopian future. The sum of this global turmoil is more the subject rather than its parts. While at once

Inspired by Monet

I think that I am finding my own style of painting. I am really inspired by Claude Monet and his style of applying paint. I have been working on a piece that is not done yet but I am really liking the technique of applying thick paint. I like the vibrant colors that he uses in his paintings as well as his subject matter of landscapes. In my drawing I have also been exploring mark making as a way of representing things. I am trying to achieve the same ideas he portraits in his paintings in mine. I need to work from my own images though, and not ones other people have taken. I am having a hard time finding a place that inspires me because it’s all just a concrete jungle to me. I am inspired by trees, and flowers and large fields, that seem like you can walk on for forever, not tall buildings where you can never see the sunset unless your on the top floor. I miss seeing the sunrise or set, and having endless amounts of trees to sit underneath. Pretty soon I am planning on renting a car and just driving until I find a place probably in a surrounding state. The lake here to me seems grey after the beautiful ocean in San Luis Obispo. For Transfer Studio we have to find a place to take our class that inspires us, and I am having a really difficult time finding a place like that because you can always see some sort of high rise in the back ground. I miss California, and rolling hills, which I never thought I would really miss. I always used to say when I was little that I belonged in a city, but I think I was wrong. I love Chicago, and I can live here for a long time, but one day I think I will have to go back to California, where I can have some sort of feeling of country side and wilderness. It may be as soon as I graduate.

My work in progress:

food in college

I miss steak so badly. A nice chicken breast would be so good to me right now. I feel like I have not gotten the proper protein since I have been in college this year. My diet consists of macaroni and cheese, velvet style of course, and chicken noodle soup. I am completely the definition college student right now. I have probably ten packs of top roman noodles in my cupboard right now. All I can do is look forward to Friday, when a good family friend is taking me to dinner. I hate not having an oven in our room. I guess we don’t have ovens because a few years ago a girl tried to bake her ceramics project in her oven and caught her whole kitchen on fire. We have had three fire drills because of people burning either rice or bacon. I think freshman should stick to eating out or cooking soup. You can’t set off the fire alarm by cooking soup, and if you do you should never cook again. I think it’s about time I take cooking lessons since I am 20 years old. One day I will have to know how to cook but im going to take my time on it. I loved my George Forman last year and it was a lifesaver. I think its time I get one this year because I need to start eating more protein. You can already notice the freshman around that is gaining their freshman 15 because they are eating badly. I believe that one of the most important things to staying healthy is having a good diet and I am not achieving that at all.