list of artists (post by marisol)

Some of these people use nature as their materials, other's use other objects, be it books, guns, buttons, scrap metal. It's time to redefine trash. Many places, like the US are doing landfill mining to recycle plastic bags, and the UK is considering it (or maybe they already started...)
I'm trying to find out that specific statistic i was talking about that my sister told me of, but she's off at Davis and it's hard to contact her. Her t-mobile cell phone is useless!!! arg!!!!
anyways, hopefully I'll have polished this blog entry into a powerpoint presentation by tomorrow. I hope everyone blogs! I WANT FREE LUNCH

so here's my list:

misako inaoko (bay area artist!!!)
andy goldsworthy
pabra pilar (bay area artist!!!?)
brian dettmer
leigh wells (bay area?)
rex ray (bay area?)
tim noble and sue webster
patch-work-alice.deviantart.com (a woman)
doctor-gus.deviantart.com (some dude)
if possible, the people at www.flickr.com/photos/lenny_meriel/sets/846051/
lisa kokin (bay area artist!!!)
john ricker (bay area artist!!!)
shen shaomin (maybe)
doug owen
boaz vaadia
nathaniel parsons
christopher wenler
peter diminick (maybe...)
deagon keller (maybe....)
mark baugh-sasaki
jeff hantman
digger thang (not sure if that was his name)

and maybe that guy (or gal?) who was in my shoe book (stine heilmann)
and take a look at the poster for young at art
those shoes made of natural stuff were made by people at my school!


and not on my list, but khristine wanted me to remind her about Jessica Martin

note: not all these artists may be on the exhibit, since it may not be possible, and we could always find more artists that fit this concept about rethinking materials for art, using scrap stuff and nature objects, the possibilities are endless.
I encourage you guys to google the artists on this list, and maybe help me expand my list ^^


please comment!
and please check these people out!!!!

ETA: I MADE A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION, DARREN ARE YOU READING THIS? I WANT TO PRESENT IT ON FRIDAY

SuperSheroes: Be prepared for this Friday

Unfortunately, we will have to cancel the Legion of Honor visit for this Friday. In its place we have to meet to hammer out the theme and opening part of the statement for the Through Future Eyes exhibit. Since Kate will be gone for the next 2 weeks, she wants the theme to be set by Friday. As I told you on Wednesday your thoughts and ideas about the theme are something that we all need to know immediately. It would be unfair and selfish to keep your ideas to yourself. Remember we are a team, and are pushing the bus uphill. It wouldn't be unfair if someone did not decide to contribute, and instead sit down on the bus while everyone else is pushing. That works against the nature of teamwork. Each one of you is a great thinker. You are smart, intelligent, compassionate, and energetic. We need to capture that energy between us, smush it into a ball and unleash it onto the world announcing our arrival. We need to step it up to truly be the superstars that we are. Don't be afraid to bust out. We are the New SuperSheroes! Activate your power!

For Friday we need to:
-Begin class at noon and not 1pm.
-Bring an appetite, and I will bring lunch.
-One paragraph about the themes that we have narrowed down, or be bold and come up with a new theme.
- List our the strong parts of your ideas in either a list, mind map, or bubble diagram.
- Try to think of the areas of your ideas that may be weak or in need of development. If you can't visualize what your are saying then it may need to be developed more or dropped all together.
-Post on Blog, Read Blog, Comment on other's Blogging.
- If this is all done, we should be able to finish well before our 3pm deadline.
- If we finish, we can watch a documentary called "the Beautiful Losers", a film about one of the most popular exhibitions at YBCA. This exhibit continues to tour around the world, and the film shows the artists and the final results of the exhibit as they unfolded.

Be professional, Be On-Time, Live 110%, Be SuperSheroes!
-djd
c/s

Matt's first post

hello YAAW Curators,
I'm finally on the blog and looking forward to reading your entries. I just want to say again what a great opportunity it is to be a part of this project and I hope you all see what an amazing opportunity we have all been granted. I can't wait to see you all Friday and finalize the theme so you all can really start digging into the selection of artists, which I am expecting to be the most fun and challenging experience so far on this crazy adventure. We'll also be looking at your poster sketches and moving forward on planning for the next Whats The Big Idea Day activities, which is exactly one month from today. Mark your calendars (9/13)!

Summer Show in Summit: 6 painters, photographers, and sculptors

FYI

Just a quick review of a show with some of the imagery that the press talked about.

Summer Show in Summit features painters, photographers, sculptor

Friday, August 08, 2008

BY DAN BISCHOFF

Star-Ledger Staff

'We've reached the point now in the United States where Latino artists demonstrate a kind of layering about identity and culture that meshes into the dominant society, but with a distinct twist,' says Alejandro Anreus, former curator at the Jersey City Museum, now associate professor of art history and Latin American studies at William Paterson University.

This month, he's curating 'Repeating Islands: 6 New Jersey Latino Artists,' the Summer Show 2008 at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit, which illustrates his argument with three painters, two photographers and a sculptor.

'Take map artist Lisette Morel (of Nutley),' Anreus says.

'She uses the formal language of the white art world -- you know, abstraction and repetitive mark-making -- and turns it into something else, something more immediate. She takes red, white and blue dots of acrylic or soft pastel, which happen to be the colors of both the Dominican Republic and the American flag, and transforms maps of New Jersey and her island of origin into roughly indistinguishable smears of color. She shows New Jersey becoming the Dominican Republic and the Dominican Republic becoming New Jersey. It's a Modern sensibility, but synthesized with a deeper range of meaning.'

All the artists share a common ancestry in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, either born in or descended from people who emigrated from Puerto Rico, Cuba or the Dominican Republic. They share the same Roman Catholic visual culture, with its hierarchic and narrative impulses.

That could not be clearer than it is in Union City artist Rodríguez Calero's 'acrollages' (collaged images on canvas), which take Catholic iconography -- one work is titled 'La Madonna Negra,' another 'St. Sebastian'-- and update it with a kind of contemporary photographic realism. (Calero is Puerto Rican). Verona's Raúl Villarreal, a Cuban-American, does something similar in three easel paintings that combine backgrounds taken from the news media, like the burning oil fields of Kuwait or smoking glass high-rises, with figures drawn from commercial advertising. Each one is provided with a little street jewelry that spells out a theme (like, 'Soberbia' or 'Emigrante' or 'WMD' -- Villarreal calls this his 'Bling-Bling Boom-Boom' series).

Bloomfield sculptor David Medina, a Dominican-American, uses the visual heritage of African and native Taino cultures to make figures of metal and glass. Three cast-glass statuettes are dedicated to Yoruban gods (all of them featured prominently in the Newark Museum's 'Embodying the Sacred in Yoruban Art,' still up through Aug. 24). Even more interesting are bronze and blown-glass representations of a three-horned god that can look both classical and drive-in movie alien (one sculpture's glass head is filled with Christmas tree lights).

But you really get a sense of the multiple scrims of meaning Latino art embodies with the photographers in this show. New Brunswick-based Julio Nazario, a Puerto Rican born in New York, is showing digital photos of clouds inspired by the paintings of JMW Turner and the photos of Alfred Stieglitz. They reprise the Catholic iconography of the heavens, blotting the sun or making palpable the touch of its rays.

Dan Bischoff may be reached at dbischoff@starledger.com

©2008 Star Ledger

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Exhibition Ideas 8/6/08

YAAW Exhibition Ideas
Innovative material in art (5)
Art made with nature (6)
Color coding (2)
Mythos: mythology and symbolism in stories (1)
Graffiti: SF and street culture (6)
Science (1)
Poetry interpreted as art (1)
Endurance/perseverance of the human body (7)
Pressures related to becoming a(n) teenager/adult (6)
Outsider arts (adults not their age) (1)

2nd vote
Innovative materials for our future (4)
Graffiti Culture (1)
Endurance of Human Body/Becoming a Teenager (7)

Ghost In The Shell II

For you folks who are crazy about Anime. Here is an opportunity to see the second installment of the classic Ghost In the Shell series. If you haven't seen it already, you can catch it in the screening room on Sun, Aug 10, 7:30 pm
GHOST IN THE SHELL II: INNOCENCE
BY MAMORU OSHI
Even if you hate anime, you will be overwhelmed by the breathtaking visual and spiritual experience that is Ghost in the Shell II. It is 2032 and humans, animals and machines have intermingled to such an extent that distinctions among life forms have become almost arbitrary. Bato is a cyborg detective with a man-made body but with a human brain, who is investigating the case of a female robot who killed her owner.
(2004, 99 min, 35mm)

If you are interested, please email me at ddeleon@ybca.org and I'll request tickets on your behalf.
I am also waiting for those of you who are interested in attending the Frida exhibit on your own time. Remember that school is starting soon and you might not be able to see it once classes begin. Take advantage of this opportunity to see such a magnificent collection of her work.




-djd
c/s

My DeviantArt

Just thought I'd share it with the world
Khristine already knows
and Darren saw it once

http://the-bumble-bee-one.deviantart.com/