Category: Studio
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Incorporating criticism
I mentioned some of the feedback I received from the first critique of term in this post. The task during the week following was to use those suggestions and criticisms. I experimented with and modified work from the spring critique in five different ways. The more I thought about the spring crit, the more I […]
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Spring critique 2014
This Saturday I presented this term’s artwork for review by my peers and professors. Here are a few photos of how it was arranged for critique. I’ve been asked to explore more display options. Cutting them out and presenting the dolls in site-specific installations was one suggestion. Removing the black mat boards was a […]
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Play and fantasy
[ The first two parts of this essay can be found here and here. Some images and detailed description of this final section have been omitted pending permission from the individual to whom it refers. ] Collection #2 “To my way of thinking, knowing an object does not mean copying it–it means acting upon it. […]
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Confronting and kowtowing to the canon
[ part 2 of the essay which began “To Thine Own Self Be True” ] Collection #1 ”Shades of Santayana! Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it; ergo, those who can remember the past may overcome it? What does it mean, in a society replete with simulations and reenactments, to overcome […]
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To thine own self be true
[ Then again, consider the source. ] Selfies are easily dismissed as narcissistic or kitschy, but the urge to self-define is neither new nor unimportant. The convention of using physical likeness to express individuality applies along the continuum of portrait images in visual culture: it links lowbrow selfies to high art portraits of Rembrandt. By […]
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Highlighting women as creators (via paper dolls)
My recent paintings experiment with and assess the personal impact of the artistic canon. In superimposing the art historical canon over my own paper doppelgänger, I engage in a form of portraiture similar to what Svetlana Alpers refers to in The Art of Describing as the “historiating portrait” (14). Such figures “are distinguished by looking […]
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Proof of concept?
I’m starting something new… My plans owe a grateful nod to work by Jaclyn Seufert and Beth Scher. …oh, and maybe Sandro Botticelli as well.
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Four months of work
Correspondence art: and a scrap/accordion book to document it 1) Proust’s madeleines 2) Honkers 3) pictures of the pink/purple seal (designed with feedback from mail art #1) 4) bees 5) luggage tags 6) a book to document the project Opiate of the Masses the triptych about seductive things (with a […]
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Souvenirs, part 2
I recently completed what I considered a research trip to Europe. I brought a stack of quality paper and pencils and attempted to create as many souvenirs (aka postcards) as I could while engaged in the inevitable “hurry up and wait” parts of such travel. Obviously Gaudi’s Basilica de la Sagrada Familia made a […]
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Mail art #3: Wax seals yet again
First and foremost, thank goodness for the occasional light-hearted project like this one with which to leaven everything else. I was dared to construct a wax seal larger than my usual 1 in. diameter. I decided that this meant I had to make one in excess of 4 in. With so much more surface area […]
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Identity politics
Today’s derailing experience comes courtesy of my studio mentor. He pointed out that an opinion I expressed about identity politics invalidated my entire thesis. He wasn’t wrong…but the opinion I voiced this morning was less nuanced than the one I would have stated if given more time. To give the appropriate visual context, here are […]
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Fame
The Chico News and Review did a (brief) blurb on the annual Window Art Project. I mention it because my polyptych Nor against yourself was included in their mass of thumbnails.
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LUGGAGE vs. wooden frames
As I mentioned, there are two ways in which to display what I’m tentatively calling the Opiate of the Masses triptych. In the altered luggage version, there is sadly no phosphorescence whatsoever. That would be a con. It does, however, come with a handle. Schlepping art around gets old fast. The prospect of simply snapping […]
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Origins cube
I finally finished the large Yoshimoto cube. Consider it homage to the link between the infinite and the infinitesimal (admittedly far less structured than “Powers of Ten” by Ray and Charles Eames). These reversible cubes perfectly suit my fascination with twinning and/or paradigms. The doppelganger this time is contrasting references to science and the first […]
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luggage vs. WOODEN FRAMES
One of this semester’s experiments was to create two different types of frames for the same polyptych. One is an altered piece of secondhand luggage that opens up to expose a triptych. The other is closer to the hinged polyptychs I’ve been making for the past year. Today I’ll present the paintings in their wooden […]
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Yoshimoto cubes, part 3
My previous art cubes used appropriation to present opposing two-dimensional views of womanhood in religious art history. This time that same self-transformation has a much larger scale. (Each of the black component pieces is an eight inch cube.) I thought I was finished creating art about the whole Creation vs. Evolution argument last fall, but […]
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Chico window arts project
While the star of Chico’s Artoberfest is the Open Studio Tour, the month of artistic celebration also includes a push by downtown businesses to prominently display artwork. It’s a small nod to the town’s artistic proclivity. Here is a local newspaper’s report on the displays. I am not part of the studio tour, but some […]
Colleen Wampole 