YAY I'm a super shero!

Yeah I notice Khristine and I are always there....

Out of all the galleries i missed ONE (the one before the one we went today) oh well.

Here are videos/group pics:

Monica


Khristine and Rosa



Marisol

July Attendance

YAAW's New SuperSheroes team attendance for July was 79%. Most of it was due to vacation time and committments to other internships. I don't ever expect attendance to drop below this marker. I will also post current perfect attendance streaks.

SuperSheroes in perfect attendance:

Monica War

Khristine "Bow Down to the " Manalang

Note: Please be a frequent vistor to the blog and review the calendar before you leave to YBCA.

pepsi and pickles,

-djd

c/s

Today's class 8/20/08

Please come prepared for today's class. We have a few things to take care of:
Finishing the Thank you cards
Finishing the title
Visit with Edmundo de Marchena
(2 questions for Edmundo)
Calendar review
Please be on time, and be professional.
paz y pan,
-djd
c/s

"The Gatherers" Curatorial Statement

Hey All. Here is the curatorial statement for the Gatherers exhibition that will be exhibited at YBCA before the Through Future Eyes exhibit.

Oct 31-Jan 11 (Gallery 3)
Curators: Veronica Wiman and Berin Golonu

""Urban Naturalists" (working title) looks at a culturally diverse group of artist groups and their motivations for greening the urban sphere. What ties their work together is a combined interest in using art and cultural activism to incorporate the experience of nature and agriculture into urban habitats. Various issues are touched upon, from the construction of public or semi-public urban social spaces; to environmental issues affecting urban residents; to the politics of localized food production and affordable nutrition for city dwellers. Since the experience of nature is a conditioned response that varies from one culture to the next, the curators are interested in bringing groups from different cultures and urban locales together to exchange and explore these differences. Also examined will be the cultural differences of populations and immigrant groups within each urban locale, and how varying backgrounds are reflected in the use of public space. We are therefore targeting artists from cities such as San Francisco, Stockholm, and Istanbul located near agricultural regions, and containing a large number of immigrant groups transplanted from both rural and urban locales. The project aims to examine how these differences motivate different incarnations of green pockets of social space within any given urban environment. The exhibition at YBCA will be flexible so as to accommodate proposals or public programs site-specific to the Bay Area and its residents."


Keep this in mind as your ideas about your theme develop and grow.

ps. Missed ya'll, see you Wednesday!
~One handed typing gimpy.

Rosa, Superstar!

My idea"nature within art" specifically means 'trash and nature' being re-used as elements in the creation of art! I believe that it's time for artists to bring back nature into art. As we lose the natural resources because of poor global planning or apathy, we will have to rely more upon the recycling of man made objects, which deplete the resources, and other natural things not only to make a better world, but also to make beautiful art. (Now, as in the future, artists must deal with the loss of nature and the loss of scarce resources to make art.)

Here are some artists that have nature as an element in or subject of their art:
- koh myung keun
- zach pine
- Tonito Valderrama
- markbaugh-sasaki
- Meeson Pae Yang

Ideas: "My Name Is (Wo)man" + "Deus Ex Machina (Title Pending)"

My Name Is (Wo)man - Alternate Name: Evolution of Feminization
What will become of women of tomorrow? Of next week? Month? Years? While the struggle for women's social status has been long and continues on, there has been definite changes to the image of a woman. So, what do people see the next step for women? What does society view women of today? What do people envision women of the future to be like? Artists explore and mold their ideas to give perspective and story to this concept to introduce audience the change of women, of femininity.

Recommended Artists:
Ana Teresa Fernandez
Edmundo de Marchena

"Deus Ex Machina"
Technology has been everywhere and anywhere throughout history, and has gone through large leaps and bounds on the past several centuries. Everywhere you see in today's society, technology is apparent, an addiction, technicalities given form and function. Machines, technology, and science are often viewed when referring to what the "future" will look like. Through the eyes of various artists, this exhibition would introduce ideas, possibilities of steel and wires and machines and computers of the future.

Recommended Artists:
Praba Pilar

I've been searching around deviantArt dot com, and have found various artists and samples that could go into either theme. In a sense, I could be mixing the two up, just showing the ideas separately. Samples are given with artists, thanks to DA's handy embed system.


Mecha + Masculine + 1 by ~DAMEAUX9 on deviantART


queenbee by ~ongaro on deviantART


EVE - by `adonihs on deviantART


Female mecha by *AndreeWallin on deviantART


The black dress by *elsevilla on deviantART


Enter the Hive by *elsevilla on deviantART


SHURIKEN: vehicle concept 1of3 by *HOON on deviantART

Recommended Artists
greyhole
AndreeWallin
HOON (specially his GEISHA piece)
DAMEAUX9
tobiee
SolidAlexei
Pierrick
Sean-D-Omega
belldandies
elsevilla

It'd be great if some of you guys could check around some of these artists. They could have something to catch your eye. Or, possibly, check out their Favorites - they could have favored another person's work or art that could appeal to you, or if you wish to learn more (as artists tend to favorite things to their own tastes or styles or whatever).

Too bad most of 'em seem to be from overseas and all. Ah, well.

Monica's ideas and artists

More detailed Ideas for the theme:

1. Endurance of the Human Body:
• Contrasting the beauty of the human body to the dangers of the human mind: I was thinking of Edmundo’s piece how represents women with these nice curves (pic #1), but in another he has this weird contraption that seems to hurt the ear(pic #2). Other things that destroy humans: invention of the atom bomb (pic #4), holocaust, abuse (pic #3), wars (pic #5).

Edumundo's Peices
(Pic #3)


(Pic #2)


(Pic #1)


Frank Ebert's peices:

(pic #4)


(pic #5)



• Contrasting the coarse-ness/ugly side of the human body, how it can endure a lot of pain, bruises, stiches etc. Juxtaposed to the side of fragility, softness, and cariño (I forgot how to say it in English, translator please!) of the human body. (Or like the softness/innocence of a child's body, versus the coarsness and worn down body of an old person or something)

Examples of Coarce-ness:

Frida Kahlo (but I don't think we can put her work up =/) (Frida Kahlo Roots)


Andrew Carnie (Disperse)


Jennifer D Anderson (no title)


Lucien Saxon (Job's Grief)


Softness/Beauty/Fragility:

Frank Ebert


Giorgio Tuscani (Unveild Beauty? part II)


Frida Kahlo (Broken Column)


2. Transitions of becoming a child->teenager and becoming a teen->adult
Contrasting the Immaturities of tween years (like sexual stuff), and the rebellious side of becoming a teenager to an adult (like politics, and corruption)

Here are some examples:

Edmundo De Marchena:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzhU666DHg4

Some of the Zeum Artists (couldn't find any names) I want to use their video, some audio, and the "sculpures" they made.

I was thinking if we could have performers, if we could have Youth Speak artists (rebellious side)

Also, painings from Balmy Alley. The paintings youth created.

Southern Exposures artists.