Artist Presentation 2 Part 2

April 25,2016

Nathaniel- Nancy Davenport
Canadian Assistant professor at UofPenn School of design. Photography video and animation. Politically charaged imagery. Compositing multiple images together. Constructed photography that feels familiar. Three bodies of work. The apartments (01), Screensavers(03), Workers(11). Uses compositing software. Showcase her work on TV screens in the gallery like media TV.
·      Bombardment. Opened 5 days before 9/11 which is ironic. This work is about terrorism. Parallels of violence by mistake and by individuals. Terrorist. Sniper. Fictional familiar landscapes. Revolutionary Day. Revolutionary Night. Appropriate iconic images of late 60s with institutional violence. Chris Burden’s 747 appropriation for one of her images 747. Has a quote on the blog.
·      Screensavers. Ideas revolve around protest. Green screen was not available at this time. She would cut them frame by frame to create these shots. Conflicted feeling in believing in necessity of protest, but a lot of these ideas might be exhausted. Protest starts when you stop working, so it is playing when you are not. Nature of protest movement and the methods that are used.
·      Workers. Employees and architecture of a global company in Europe and China. Follows common path of outsourcing, heavily influenced by Lumie’r Factory 1894 film.  Decided to document these workers, but is compiling them with over 100 photographs. Also a short film of workers leaving the factory. Close factories in Europe and open them in china to save money. Panoramic shots.

Amanda- Maggie Taylor
1961 in Cleveland Ohio, MFA University of Florida. Married to Jerry Uelsmann. She won the Santa Fe Center for Photography’s project competition in 2004. She merges into digital, started traditional. Scans imagery and Photoshop to composite imagery. Quote on the blog. Takes months to make her tedious images.
·      Did intro for Ghost Whisperer show with Jennifer Love Hewitt.
·      Southern Gothic- Girl in a bee Dress- Confessions of a Napper- Suit with wings- Mood Lifter-
·      Almost Alice (2006)- Alice and Wonderland. 45 digital inkjet prints. Quote on blog. Explain yourself!- Its always tea time- Call the next witness (she is on trial)- I’m grown up now (reflect her house)- A curious feeling- these strange adventures.
·      Current Work- More dreamlike series starting in 2012- the burden of dreams and small celebration.

Anna- Nikki S. Lee
Korean conceptual contemporary documentary and performance photography. MA in 1998 at NYU. At first she wanted to be an actress and then film making. She decided photography because her dad has studied it. Quote on the blog. “Life itself is a performance.”
·      Projects- Exotic Dancers. Adopts various customs and subcultures of American society, to fit in with these groups. Made in upstate new york in a club there. She would tell the groups that she was an art student. Punks. She wanted a boring not professional everyone can take pictures. Humble project, she doesn’t direct anyone or make them feel uncomfortable. She uses a simple snap and shoot picture. She likes this, she pushes boundaries of what is fine art photography. She keeps timestamps. She views success as believability of the imagery. Hip Hop. She blends photography and performance. Vernacular photography, challenges notions of how we build identity. Is one identity more true than others, how fixed are our rolls? Seniors, she hires professional artist to make her older, they just thought she was a crazy old lady. Lesbians, she mixes reality with non-reality. Blurs lines of what is real and what is not. Latinos, Identities can change and are all in flux. Investigates what puts us into these groups and do we fit the mold? She swears she is not mocking but I view it that way. She feels she is exploring what it means to adopt a culture not mocking it. Drag Queens. Skateboarders. Sense of spontaneity and response. Tourists. Quote on blog.
·      Parts (2002-2005) impact of relationships on identity. Parts of herself she has yet to understand. She cuts off the ends. She is not trying to edit where she has cut or edited the image. Wives, lovers, partners, and friends. Perception and identity and social examination. Open ended narrative that we are asked to elaborate more on. This project becomes about the narrative. Why are people cut out, why is information missing, she quotes the Beatles, who are we together. Fluidity of identity and how people change it.
Layers (2007-2009) street artist draw her portrait on translucent paper. This is from 14 different cites. She would layer the portraits in a light box and photograph the layer. She would layer them from different areas but from the same cites for this process. Quote on the blog. This is the most intriguing to me. She has a documentary from 2006 AKA Nikki S Lee, fake documen

Artist Presentation Part 1

April 20, 2016

Artist Presentations 2

Chelsea Exl- Elad Lassry

Eagle Glove, frames match background of imagery. Untitled with description in parentheses’. Narative on portraits, even though there is no direct narrative, he leaves information out so you can finish the narrative. Unfinished or problematic feel to them all. De-categorization of logic defying imagery because of angle and topics. Melocco, hand pots and cups, colors blend together, monochromatic. Quotes online on her blog. Distorted and blurred imagery with Untitled (Cheetah). Uses more tangible objects in his work, not just pictures like in Untitled (Display). Post Appropriation Artist. Looking them as objects not photographs and that classifies him in this way. Sculptural photography. Untitled (Bread and Jam) Untitled (Strawberry, Kids) Blocking image with silk folded fabric. He has a video Untitled (eggs, eyes) Sensory Spaces 3 on youtube, a video. Pioneered Post Appropriated field.

Rachel Heffner- Alex Prager

Born in 1979 in LA, Photographer and Filmmaker. Dropped out of school at 14. She moved to Switzerland then because her friends mom got her a job at a knife shop. William Eggleston inspires her to become a photographer. Film stills from a film she made called Despair. Struggle of a ballerina, conflicts with love= suicide. Spotlights she jumps from a building.  Compulsion= disaster and special turbulence. A lot of her work is inspired by LA. Compulsion 1. Face in the Crowd film= rebuilt huge spaces of dense public gathering places. Extras to film the scene as well as friends and relatives, they are all just another face in the crowd. Video installation with actress Elizabeth Banks, 3 monitors for this piece. She personally dresses and stages each model for the pieces. Mainly works with primary colors, hates neon colors, they are new age and she wants a classic feel to her work. She choses 50s and 60s styles for the classic style as well. Min’s response= “Is that all?” Part of Post appropriating artist, very influenced by William Eggleston which could be why she choses that era in her work. Complete lack of respect was given to this presenter.

Hanna Vongpraseuth- Sophie Calle

October 9, 1953 in Paris, france. Giraffe= mother. Tiger= father. 1979 comes back to Paris to reacquaint herself with the city, and herself. The Striptease 1979. She is working as a stripper and is very intimate with herself. She adds notes and postcards with these images of when she was a child to add the innocent factor. She shows them in books often. Quote on the blog. Detective 1980. Asked mother to have a detective to follow her around the city, planned it according to where was important to her. She questions the roll of the spectator. She does a lot of collaborations with people. She changes the detective to the double game in the book. Voir La Mer 2011. Pays 14 people to go to the ocean for the first time, films their reactions. Films them from the back, installation is done with these large videos. She relates to this because she does not remember the ocean herself. Exquisite Pain 2003, Lover’s failure to meet her in New Delhi. Each day she takes a picture and writes a feeling. Take Care of Yourself 2007, got broken up with by an email. 107 women analyze the email and record their reactions to the email. The Sleepers 1979. She asked friends, family, and strangers to sleep in her bed with her. 23 series of 5 to 12 images form a total of 176 b/w photographs. Address Book 1983 finds an address book, photocopies it, sends it back. Contacts the people and creates a body of work from it. To the North Pole with Mum 2009. Buries photograph, ring, and Chanel necklace in a glacier. Honorary to mother. Important quote on the blog.  Displays images by shadowboxes. Terrible music to the writings she writes.

Brianna Largent–Richard Renaldi

Touching strangers. American from Chicago 1968 BFA from New York University. Hotel room portraits. Self portraits of Renaldi and his paftner Seth Boyd 16 year documentation. Most travel with his job at Microsoft. Definitely has compostition in mind when photographing. “What is being recorded is intimacy… on the blog” Sudo Documentary, staged documentary. All look like someone else is taking the shot. Some are more intimate than others. See America by Bus. Travels to different greyhound stations and documents what people he finds. Makes up stereotypes of what people are their. Spans over a long period of time as well. Sabrina looks rich but is traveling by bus. Has a lot of blown out areas in my opinion. Touching Strangers. Quote on blog. Strangers going into personal spaces of each other without knowing each other. He uses an 8x10 view camera for his work. Awkward tension for the models.

Morgan Cook- Richard Galpin

Born in 1975, from London. Uses modernist abstraction, constructivism, and futurism. Post Appropriation artist. Good Quote. Shows video with no sound. Peeling away emulsion, sanding away layers. Did that until 2013 then starts orbital sanding. He adds sculptural elements to his work. More colorful than you would expect. Pre-galvanized steel drywall studding and automotive paint for his sculpture. Series Ten Thousand Revolutions Per Minute- Orbital Sanding. Some stuff he is doing doesnlt look city like at all. These are from 2013, when in class discussion, this should be discussed. Travel Both Tracks- installation. Kinetic Boom, 2015- installation.  Created them all in London out of construction materials, painted them with matt paint so the metal can shine. Color palate is based on construction site colors. Sketches of his constructions, super meticulous planner. Viewing station in Manhattan. Only look at it through the hole. Placed right where he took the shot of the original image. Neat that it is outside because you create an active viewing experience that changes often.

Current Photographic Trends: Riva

April 18, 2018

Riva Presentation/ current trends in photography

·      Trend 1. Explore other mediums and pushed the word photography to the edges of its definition

o   Brandon Nichols

§  University of North Texas

§  Post Human

§  It conceives of a state where information, or even a mind, could be separate from its material form or body.

§  Sci-Fi- Movement. Collection of gif images. Very florescent in nature. Explores how we envision ourselves in technological society. Postmodern Idea.

§  Studio Journal, sculpture and vibrant colors- photographs.

o   Shai Langen

§  From Amsterdam based material designer. In his work he transforms and reshapes the human body in a performative and intuitive way. Material experimentation.

§  Wall paper paste and paint and without animation or manipulation. Tribal inference. Honor deceased with this piece. With movement the paint begins to drip more and create a new pattern. Very lizard like to me.

§  Contrast of real and imaginary is great.

§  Deep sea creature hat with tights on their arms. What is the difference between creature and human.

§  Chimera

§  Run Way

§  Makes materials and is performing

·      Trend 2- Ispired by social media and commercial photography

o   Noémie Goudal

§  Born in Paris, French visual artist works in photography, film, and installation.

§  Les Amants, real and the fantastic together.  Sculptural photography. Fake waterfall. (Cascade)

§  Haven her body was, Digital manipulation

o   Henry Hargreaves

§  New Zealand, Canterbury University. He is a model as well. Inspired by social media foodie images.

§  One of the only photographers in the world creating conceptual food photography revolving around social issues.

§  Power Hungry, upper class representing officials food verse normal food.

§  Korean, USA, Roman Empire, Symbolic Allegorical images. Split in half but the other is in the background.

Current Photographic Trends: Sara and Molly

April 11, 2016

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Current Photographic Trends

Sara- Found Photos and textiles

·      Lisa Kokin Jewish- thread based imagery. Intricate sewing on the surface. She appropriates the imagery

o   Weird combination of creating new memories of the discarded photos.

o   Quote on blog

o   Persona- layers images and puts another photograph behind the cut out photograph

o   Love Always Juanita- Starts to play with books.

·      Amy Friend- Brock University in Ontario

o   Found photographs, punched holes in them and illuminates them from behind.

o   Quote on blog

o   Mystical in nature, titles them from notes on the photographs

o   Before the War

o   Uses original sized images

o   On the lake at sunset

o   Supppppppperrrr tiny holes poked in these images

o   Generally dark photo and water and hazy

o   Obscures identity to create a collective memory based image.

·      Dieuwke Spanns, Landscapes from Amsterdam

o   Questions 3 dimensionality of imagery. She creates new landscapes

o   Prints and appropriated pages from books to create new 3D landscapes

·      Merve Ozaslan

o   Step, collages her personal series is black and white with color

o   She works with magazines primarily with black and white and black and white

o   She is trying to connect and question our relationship with nature.

o   Bridge, Hug

·      Diane Meyer, Loyola

o   Taking pictures of where berlin wall used to exist, she pixelates photograph cross-stitch thread technique. She creates the Berlin wall with this process.

o   Mauer Park

o   She would probably take forever on these images, very intense in detail

o   New Mexico or Arizona, chronologically moments through her life and when she remembers things

o   Quotes on blog

o   New Jersey- childhood imagery.

·      Yoon Ji Seon, Korean

o   Rag Face, traditional Korean mask. She photographs herself and sews on top of them except for the eyes

o   Quote on blog

o   Fabric starts to gap has no experience with sewing before this series

o   Rag Face #58 Rag face #42 Rag Face #22

o   22 is very vibrant in comparison is more mask

·      J Frede, Fiction Landscapes Series

o   Primarily performance artist

o   Seed drawing performance series

o   Surreal landscapes that don’t exist in reality

o   Makes custom frames so they can be displayed together.

o   Flows old images together, no reprinting, these are exact images he appropriates. Framing reality

o   Look at the tumblr, wonder if he goes to an area in search of similar areas

·      Randy Grskovic, Toronto

o   Collage work, meticulously cutting and flipping photographs. Has pictures of the backs too, Hand cut, marked, and taped.

o   Distortion series.

o   Very cool, shift work as well.

o   Gives the images so much more emotion.

·      Liz Orton, London, Deltiologies Series.

o   She works with postcards of place

o   Quote on blog

o   Very cool work

o   Repeated postcards in different locations

o   Color is really great that the color tone technique is so rich and similar.