Tag: polyptych
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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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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 […]
Colleen Wampole 