Tag: illustration

• Exposing the male gaze (with dolls)

  While the canon of art history is a monolithic force, some aspects of it are far from benign.  Art history is billed as a treasure trove of virtuoso technique, stylistic innovation, and individual genius.  A corollary implication is that artworks that survived to the present day did so because they possess such superior qualities. In […]

  cwampole

  March 4, 2014

  Research, Studio

  appropriation, art history, curatorial, feminism, illustration, interactive art, painting, recursion, social practice

• 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.

  cwampole

  January 13, 2014

  Studio

  art history, collections, feminism, illustration, interactive art, kitsch, paper, paper engineering, studio

• Some buzz (about mail art #4)

  The fourth round of mail art went out this afternoon.

  cwampole

  November 14, 2013

  Studio

  craft, illustration, mail art, paper, printmaking

• 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 […]

  cwampole

  October 14, 2013

  Studio

  art history, hinged polyptych, hinges, illustration, kitsch, polyptych, studio

• Kewpies, feminism, and humility

  As Elaine Scarry mentions in On Beauty and Being Just, we more vividly remember our mistakes about beauty than intellectual topics (11).  Somehow it is easier to recall a time when we dramatically revised our opinion about the beauty of a person, place, or experience. I have recently had just such a humbling experience…about paper […]

  cwampole

  September 24, 2013

  Research

  art history, feminism, illustration, paper