~STA 112~ Chicago Trip - Photos

I have my image blog in the Picasa Album:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103825063531591956932/VisualTourInChicagoOn101411?authuser=0&feat=directlink

~STA 112~ Chicago Trip - Artists Research

Cleveland Dean

Works were on display in Gallery@220 in Pop Up Galleries:

I found that most of his works were made with the only color black. But it didn't make the paintings boring, they were still interesting because his use of different layers, and his arrangement of the positive and negative spaces in his works. I think these skills are important for me to learn to use in my own paintings. Also he is impressing himself in his artworks in a direct way that easy for the viewrs to understand. 

She Dance

I Know Myself Better Now

Not Quite Perfect

Cleveland Dean is a 37-year-old male artist from Chicago. He has learned to live his life through the course bristles of a brush. Cultured on the south side of the City of Chicago he soon saw the influences of other sections of his home and encompassed them within himself. Always having an affinity with artistic expression he dabbled in many forms of art including drawing, songwriting, poetry, spoken word to name a few.

“My work is that which bridges the unconscious and conscious; painted in depictions abstracted from my psyche. This can only be done by stepping outside my self-sanctuary and embracing that which exists deep within my soul."
--Cleveland Dean, Artist

Links:

http://www.brooklynartproject.com/profile/clevelanddean

clevelanddean.com 

http://artofsen.carbonmade.com/ 

Richard Shipps

Works were on display in Gallery@220 in Pop Up Galleries:

I was interested in his works because they were all envolved in three-dimensional forms. I think that was really hard to make a piece of work looks great in both 2-D and 3-D views. I liked how he carved in his works and played with the shadows made by the patterns he carved.

Paperika

Paperika Redux Panel 1

Hex Panels

Paperika White 1

 

Chicago artist Richard Shipps explores the ambiguity of form, shape, tone and movement through drawings, sculpture, mobiles and cut paper. His work examines the dynamic tensions between light and shadow and the interplay of negative and positive form. His focus is on the push and pull -- juxtaposition and synergy of image. 

Links:

http://richardshipps.com/home.htm 

http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/64085-richard-shipps 

Carol Bove

Works were on displayed in the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago:
She is the author of the peacock feather painting. I liked that painting very much because I think she was so unique that she chose the peacock feathers as the materials. The painting turned out so amazing... I think it's imprtant for artists to choose the materials for artworks, they will be one of the keypoints to a perfect composition. Also after knew her concept of the painting I found that she was good at showing her concepts to the viewers and keeping on the original concepts.
 

Unititled

Driscoll Garden

The Foamy Saliva of a Horse

The Night Sky Over New York

Carol Bove is a New York City based artist and collector.
Her work includes drawings and installations which concern the social, political, and artistic movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Ink drawings of nude women taken from Playboy magazines from this time period or inspired by a vintage Newsweek picture of Twiggy, or sculptures made up of bookshelves with books from the same time are examples of Bove's work.
Her work is jointly represented by Maccarone, New York and David Zwirner, New York.

Links:

http://www.georgkargl.com/en/artist/carol-bove 

http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/271/ 

http://whitney.org/www/2008biennial/www/?section=artists&page=artist_bove 

~STA112~ Chicago Trip Intro Blog / Context Blog

In order to have enough time for all the venues, I designed a detailed route map for our Chicago art trip. There were eight places to go, but in order to catch some surprises on the streee, we chose to walk for most of the time. Our first stop was at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Honestly, I did not like most of the artworks displayed there... Some of the artworks were too personal to understand by us without the captions, also I kind of felt that I couldn't got myself engaged into that museum... The reason of this feeling might be that I was not allowed to touch the artworks, or also because most of the artists were someone I didn't know very well before. Then we took a cab to the Art Institue of Chicago. I had been here before so I already knew there were so many pieces of artwork there that it was impossible for us to meet with each of them in such a short time. So I only picked some of the halls to visit: I went to see the paintings because I am now enrolling in an oil-painting class; I went to see the Japenese artworks because I just finished learnt about Japanese art history last semester; also I saw some artworks from few other collections. Although I couldn't touch the artworks there in the Art Institue neither, but I felt I like the Art Institue much more. Because I had taken art courses before, so I was able to know the information about most of the artworks there. I was familiar enough with those works so I could observe them in the Art Institute with my own understandings then understood them more deeply. Our next stops were the Pop Up Galleries. I like these galleries because I felt the artworks there were easier to understand than the ones in the Museum of Contemporary Art. Also we had a chance to talk to the gallery owner and knew more about the artists and their works. Some of the artists were just graduated from college which encouraged me to think about my future after my graduation... Finally we walked to the Millennium Park to see the Cloud Gate. The park was definitely my favorite place from the trip. We were free all the time to take photos, touch and get a close contact with everything. I thought that communication between me and the artworks helped me a lot to feel the artworks and the creaters. We walked most of the times during the day, so we had a chance to see the street views. I think the stores' window displays in Chicago were various... Some of them were really successful in their using of colors and the lights to catch our eyes.

Here is the link to the album for the photos from the day (I tried to put them here but the format went messed up after I inserted the images... Sorry you have to go to another link):

Visual Tour in Chicago (Picasa Album)

The sketches are posted in another blog entry:

Chicago Trip Sketches

The researches:

Artists Research

~STA 112~ Chicago Trip Sketches

I made this after I saw a church on the street in the evening... The style of the church is really tradional which made me feel like I was standing in front of a castle. I thought I was traveling back to ancient Europe... The old churches on Chicago's streets impressed me a lot. I like the special feeling when I saw them making a strong contrast with the busy, crowded, and modern streets.

This might be funny: I found a piece of ceramics in the Art Institute of Chicago, and then changed the head to my friend's head... Because my friend loves to make that hand gesture while he is talking, that hand gesture became his logo and we found a piece of artwork making the same gesture in the Art Institue! The inspirations of the great artworks are drawn from careful observations of life, forever.

I sketched this artwork in the Art Institue of Chicago, becuase it reminded me of the traditional Chinese lantern... This piece was originnally a Japenese incense burner. I've learnt that Japanese art was strongly influenced by Chinese art, so that the artworks from the two countries always had something in common. A Chinese lantern was mostly used in traditional Chinese weddings, so I doodle some important objects in the weddings: red candles; a Chinese character meant "happiness"; a bride with traditional wedding dress...

Final Project

I like how lights turned to be on this teddy bear in my last project, so I chose to use this bear again as my main character in the final project. 

This is my first time stay here for the summer sessions, so I want to do a documentation of this summer which kind of like a playback of the past few weeks. I just simply picked some places I always go to during the summer, and let the bear be a representation of myself. I want to be an audience or like a cameraman in the series, holding the camera follow that bear, so I shoot him all from behind. I didn't reorder them to make them looked like a narrative of a dauly routine because I want them looked like some piece of memories flashed in my mind.

This mini collection helped me remember this busy busy busy summer, but when I see these pictures right now (when I finally done with all the projects), the summer was still impressive and interesting.

Thank you Sara and everyone in the class!:)

Last Project in Progress

Sorry I don't have any pictures today. My concept is use some toys as my main characters, and the shoot them when they are in the different locations in my apartment doing different things. Initially they don't notice my camera, and in the last picture they see the camera. I want to set them as imitating me, doing something I usually do at home during my college life. So it's kind of like a mini record of my daily life.

A05 Finals

Miniature

I supposed to show a miniature stage of a concert in progress, so I chose to shoot from a bird view angle.