Monday Night the 23rd @ 6:00-Ken Mcmillian metal workshop. Studio time up until then. Bring Cuttle bones(at least 2) Target, Walmart, Pet Co. You will fail the class if you don't have them(I'm barely kidding) since we've talked about it since the early 1970's.
April 1st at 7:00 pm in the Gomache Theatre we'll be watching Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus. The studio will be open and available from 4:45-6:45 for making ART.
April 8th is Exhibit(sketchbooks on Spring Break-I'll hav esome Uses Time Wisely Stickers for a lucky few!!!!) at Simple Gestures-Start the Media Circus; PSA press release posters etc. Invite everyone!!!!! FACEBOOK, Mailing list from last show. Sertoma Thrift store would be a great place for flyers. Simple G's should be getting flyers ASAP to put in every customers bag that shop's there btwn now and then. MUSIC? are we gonna have any.
It's not to early to start thinking about your installation for the cubby(tubby) exhibit. Flyers for that exhibit should be handed out at the April 8th show!!!!! That date was pushed to the 15th of April.
Keep reading the book. Post on the Blog for next week about the next 10 pages. I think that'll put us up to 24(there's only like 40) ALso I am keeping track of the fact that almost noone is blogging when they're supposed to about the book.(no big deal only 5 points per entry however it could make the difference between a grade level) Everyone has an A on first project( I said that in class after the first show) so you should feel in the dark about your grade. If you do Please come have a chat.
Malea's visit was cool- I'll help facilitate that project. Extra credit will be given for anyone interested in installing the piece out in Hastings. I'll confirm date and times with Malea. Perhaps we could come up with some preliminary sketches soon to run by her.
That about does it. Obviously ya'll are looking and taking note of Living contemporary artists to remedy poor performance on Pre-Final exam for the final exam.
Elizabeth Murray, Franz West, Dennis Hopper, Ed Ruscha, Gillian Wearing, Pippolitti Rist, Elizabeth Peyton, The Starn Twins, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Greely Myatt, Gregg Schlanger, Kara Walker, Red Feather, SimpARC, Turquios Mountain, Art Chantry, Chip Kidd, Steve Mcqeen(sp?)are a few folks that you might want to check out.
Have a great Spring Break. Have Fun, Be Safe, Make ART!!!
mikewindy
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So, I read the next ten pages of O'Deherty and I think I'm starting to agree with Alison on his name dropping and continuous descriptions. I like that he ties the studio to more than just artist + studio= art, but that he talks about messy studios, using the wall of a studio, clean studios, and studios as pieces of work. However, some of his examples feel like they go on and on and never make a point. I think this ten page section was just examples never leading into anything else. I found it a little boring and hard to get through.
ReplyDeleteI hope everyone had a great spring break! See you on Monday!
up to page 24,
ReplyDeleteBrian is really visual and I like how he really has the reader engaged in the scenes he pictures. BUT!... yes everyone is getting that redundancy...and Im glad im not the only one who thinks that about his writing.
You know what? I feel like this is brilliant poetry. As in...you read it and LIKE the descriptions and full emotional content of the writer, but you still can't fully understand what's going on in their mind.(Thats what's intriguing about poetry duh) His writing is beautiful, but to me, the content in lacking the realization of an substantial audience.
on the last half of 23 and beginning of pg 24 shows what Im talkin about.
ciao Z's
(still cant get the cuddle bone smell away from me!)
So on page 20, O'Doherty starts describing the studio like it is a living/breathing thing. "-the glutinous studio of ingestion and the ana-" so on and so forth. It gets kinda unpleasant after that. He personifies the studio like it it is a friend sticking its nose into the your artwork. "Do studios of elimination have a yearning for some absolute? Does each indicate a temperament and an aesthetic?" So after thinking about how weird it sounded, I started thinking about how it is almost arguable that the studio (in the eyes of its artist) is kind of alive, or at least like a nosey roomate who feels the need to give her opinion.
ReplyDeleteWhen an artist, or least for this is how it is for me, picks a place to make art, it is usually for a good reason. Like, a small room to focus. Some need a tv or a stereo to have backround noise. Each studio is different because it reflects the artist as a person but I also think the artist responds based on their studio. When I need some inspiration I look around my studio (which currently doubles as my bedroom) and I can usually come up with a few ideas. What I put up in my studio is a response to what I like but after that there is almost a dialog with me and the things covering my walls. I know that makes me sound like the crazy people around that talks to trees, but I swear it is not the same thing.
It is a dialog like, "Hmm, okay I need an idea." Then my room is like " Well, Captain Gabbie, you obviously like shiney things and monkeys because they cover up this whole wall. Maybe you could do something with that." I don't hear it say that but if walls could talk it would be something like that.
And now everyone probably thinks that I'm completey insane and that's fine, I guess. And moving on. In short, I guess what I'm trying, and failing, to say is that the studio is a respose to the artist and visa versa.
This has been a completely ridiculous Captain Gabbie rant. I apologize to anyone who read.
Okay, so Mike and I were talking about the Betty Griffon house project and we decided that we are gonna use PVC pipe things to hold the corners together. Now we just need to find them. They are just 3 short PVC pipes elbowed together. To make the pyramid work, two of the pipes have to be at a right angle and the third has to point up a little probably like a, I don't know, less than a 90 degree angle. So I guess 75 would be good. Anyway if anyone sees these anywhere please post so we can get started. Thanks a bunch.
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Yo, Home Depot sells PVC pipe in a variety of sizes. I've never dealt with cutting PVC, but I'm sure we can manage it in the shop. Monday, we should sketch it out to determine how much we'll need. I don't think it should cost each of us more than a few singles.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I think my 2x4 project is on the brink of reaching Nirvana. Mandy, eat your heart out.
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ReplyDeleteAn artist’s studio is a reflection of the mind, but it doesn’t stop there. In the end, he’s cleaning up the spots, smoothing over the edges, and consulting with his inner journalist all in an often terrifying but beautifully fulfilling attempt at exposing himself to the public. But as much as he strives to make them see, what they see will never be what truly exists within the artist’s space.
ReplyDeleteThe author of Studio and Cube examines the studio as the mind of the artist and through an extensive look at images of different artists in their studios, he is determined to draw a line between two very distinct roles of the artist’s “mind.” Is it his “attic” or his “prison cell?” Mr. O’Doherty, it is both.
He lets down the ladder and each time he starts his climb, he hopes upon hope that the aged birch slats will withstand just one more trek, at least until the next one. With the fastened joints whining, he reaches in cautiously and almost timidly, searching for something no larger than a shoestring dangling in the dark. Now with a familiar path of dim lighting and somewhat polished services, he may start to explore and dig away at yet one more layer. Everything he’s ever set aside because he might need it again someday. Or did the artist at some point know that he’d find himself here, just like this, sprawled out upon this little pasture he’s carved among the residue, trying to make sense of it all.
This is his mind’s attic, and there’s so much left to be resolved.
An artist is tormented by this. Let me repeat that. An artist is tormented. Every memory, every experience, every touch is laboriously dissected. Every word, every token, every time the night falls so prematurely. And when the air speaks, he listens. When the moon glows, he extracts. And when the pin drops, he’ll trap himself in a small translucent box, still in the absence of noise, waiting for the aftershock. All of these things are gathered together, welded together, and placed in his attic for further comprehension and resolve. The ferocity with which he makes a canvas out of all things will surely prove an object of derision, but wheedle as you may, it will cut you like a knife. And as you seep outward, he will fill up a hundred resealable bags. Might the artist ever find resolution on a surface? No, I think not, but he’ll certainly take his last breath with a comforting sense of despair in that you’ll never understand but his efforts will never cease.
In the artist’s inability to have you drink from the very glass he conjures and know at once the tactile sensation of wetness at the back of his throat, he has then created his very own prison cell, nestled snuggly within these misshapen and dusty walls. He knows how it got here and likewise, that by sheer mass and measurement, it is forever trapped in that narrow space between his mind and his masquerade. He holds the brush, but a control beyond his holds the stroke, the most perceivably accurate sum of all that he knows, all that he has collected. Sometimes the artist must sit in abeyance and allow things to move without picking them up and placing them on the other side of the room.
And reductive the artist shall remain, in his mind, his attic, his self-inflicted prison cell, all that come together and make up his studio.
so a friend introduced me to a sculptor named Andy Goldsworthy, if you haven't heard of him go on youtube and just search his name. he works with objects found in nature and they are just really interesting.
ReplyDeleteFound nature objects! Andy Goldsworthy, a man after my own heart! How did you know Capt'n?
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ReplyDeletePage 17: "The bed is the noctural baseline of our vertical endeayors. It seems to exert an extra gravitational pull." remember reading this in class at the beginning of the semester, but I had no idea how true that was until I read these 10 pages. Some of the comparisons were interesting, but what is the auther's point? I like what Capt'n had to say, but I feel like that was covered in the first seven pages.
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