Zipporah Thompson

http://art.uga.edu/events/lunchtime-gallery-talk-zipporah-thompson

Lunchtime Gallery Talk: Zipporah Thompson

October 2, 2014, 12:00pm – 1:00pm

SUITE GALLERY

Join us for a gallery talk with exhibiting artist and MFA candidate in Textlies, Zipporah Thompson 

In Menagerie, MFA candidate in Textiles Zipporah Thompson responds to the sensual properties of the material world through her exploration of the exotic by means of surrealist and folklore traditions.  

Zipporah Thompson was born and raised in North Carolina where she attended college and received her BFA in Fibers. She is in her final year of her MFA in Textiles and will be exhibiting work in the MFA Exit Exhibition this spring at the Georgia Museum of Art. 

Small Daily Works

This is not too unrelated from the sketchbooks I've been trying to get y'all to use daily.  The artist here is focused on making a work of art a day- shrinking the scale to make it manageable.  They are simple but elegant and not sketchy.  Each paper is considered a final finished product.

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/09/postcards-for-ants-a-365-day-miniature-painting-project-by-lorraine-loots/

Postcards for Ants is an ongoing painting project by Cape Town artist Lorraine Loots who has been creating a miniature painting every single day since January 1, 2013. The artist works with paint brushes, pencils, and bare eyes to render superbly detailed paintings scarcely larger than a small coin. After the first year, Loots relaunched the project in a second phase inspired by Cape Town’s designation as World Design Capital 2014. On her website you can “reserve” a future painting (it’s all booked up for this year), and she’s also printed five limited edition postcards for each day. You can watch her work and hear a bit more about her inspiration in the video below by Gareth Pon, and she also regularly updates on Facebook. Hopefully we’ll see a 2015 project? (viaLustik)

365 Paintings for Ants with Lorraine Loots from Gareth Pon on Vimeo.

John Currin

Drawing II folk,

In critique I briefly mentioned the work of John Currin.  

(born 1962) is an American painter based in New York City. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner.^[1] His work shows a wide range of influences, including sources as diverse as the Renaissance, popular culture magazines, and contemporary fashion models.^[2] He often distorts or exaggerates the erotic forms of the female body. "His technical skills", Calvin Tomkins has written, "which include elements of Old Master paint application and high-Mannerist composition, have been put to use on some of the most seductive and rivetingly weird figure paintings of our era."^[3]

                                                         - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Currin

He is particularly worth looking at in context of us moving from observational drawing into personal bodies of work.  Currin combines the qualities of fine art with stylizations developed in the contemporary world.

Currin also is a type of symbolist.  He loads his imagery with visual puns or symbols to direct the interpretation of his narrative, a deeper reading of his work or search for critical analysis will bring you a lot more information than we can get into with this blog.

Cross Contours and Hatching.

Hendrik Goltius [detail]

Drawing II folk,

In last class we moved on from the contour homework into taking line in greater detail into the interior of forms.  Remember- hatching is a series of parallel lines; Often an artist will "Cross-hatch" by intersecting the set of lines with another set at a 45 to 90 degree angle.  

This post shows several examples of these high detail stylistic marks.  The "cross contours" wrap around the form; Implying the underlying volume instead of running the risk of flattening an image the way unconsidered cross hatching can.

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville.
contemporary figurative painting/drawing.



Jenny Saville in conversation with Nicholas Cullinan 29/06/12 from Modern Art Oxford on Vimeo.

This video is long, no need to watch it or read the full article below; unless this artist really excites you.  Want to share a few examples of Saville's body of work for everyone to see a contemporary figurative artist.

Jenny Saville: 'I want to be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies'

Jenny Saville's nudes are firmly in the vein of Lucian Freud, yet only now is she having her first major British solo show
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/09/jenny-saville-painter-modern-bodies

Hennessy Youngman

Hennessy Youngman and the self reflective satire of identity based performative art; and the contemporary art scene at large. . .




Hennessy Youngman is the adopted persona of Jayson Musson.  Musson has received a BFA in photography and his MFA in painting.   Musson was also a member of the Philly hip-hop group, Plastic Little, and is sampled in that 2013 "Harlem Shake" fad.




These videos which Musson started in 2010, became very popular with art students and the Youngman persona has been asked to curate exhibitions and give public lectures.

Athens Mural

http://onlineathens.com/marquee/2014-08-13/new-mural-celebrates-athens-creative-spirit

Athens has a new mural!  It was painted by recent Lamar Dodd alum Joel Rosenburg.  The mural is on the side of St. Udio- a metal fabrication business founded by former UGA art students. There will be a reception for the mural and I hope everyone makes the effort to attend.

Friday

August 29th, 7-9PM.

1321 Oconee St.

Athens, GA