Lecture #7

For lecture #7, the speaker was Eileen Neff who came to discuss her work. She acquired her BFA from Tyler. She originally was a painter but then she got the chance to take a free photography class, and has not painted another painting since that day. She collages by hand, her continuous theme is "the combining objects from inside and outside" (showing double meanings). She beliefs that the lack of formal photography educations has allowed to have more artistic freedom in doing her pieces. She started off her presentation with black and white photography (where color was added by hand), then here installation art work, and then the work that she started doing when she started using the computer.

Grit and Beauty

The Grit and Beauty assignment was given to the Computers class actually because it is a contest for all Temple students. In the contest we (the students) are supposed to show Philadelphia in a juxtaposition of the Beauty and the Grimy side:

So in my photoshop'd design I chose and image I took of the City Hall Subway stop and two people making out or as teenagers call it these days "hooking up." Now both images individually show things that could be both counted as Beautiful and Grimy. For instance, the Graffiti'd wall could look ugly to some, but others see the wall as a masterpiece of multiple artists working together/overlapping and destroying the others piece, to create and magnificent image as a whole. The image of the two teenagers kissing has been passed down from generation to generation as one of the most beautiful and yet most disgusting things. Beautiful because it symbolizes love and affection between two people, and genuine and mutual standing, two body entwined as one; yet it can also be "a disgusting public display of affection."

In the end I just wanted to show how much is in Philly, and how people can find city art, and city love in the strangest of places.

Lecture #6

On Tuesday October 20th, 2009. The speaker Sharon Louden talked about the field of multi-media. In her lecture she discussed her educational field, where she studied and how it helped her with her abstract art work. She got her masters degree at Yale, where she studied more formal ideas of what art work is. In installations she uses the principles that she learned in her art class in her bachelor and masters years to create these interesting three dimensional hanging installations. She uses a mixture of glass and fiber optic lights to create a permenant installation above a families dinner room table.
She also focused on glow in the dark materials used in installation form to create an installation that can be seen in the light and in the dark. She called the glow and the dark company and asked if they could specifically make her blue glow in the dark stuff.
I do have to say that her presentation was interesting, but i do believe that her animation presentation was't as interesting.

SELF PORTRAIT!!!!

The assignment was to scan our faces on the Epson scanners and then create an illustrator image that is made form layering layers of continuous color of the forms that repeat throughout the surfaces of our face. As we build we most think about how the colors that we pick up with the eye dropper will interact with the other colors. In the end there will be over a hundred layers that work together to create a cohesive image. The first self portrait is a of me with a braid in natural flesh tones, the second is of me with a blue-ish green tone that makes me seem like an underwater creature that lurks in the dark. What I did was I opened the Illustrator file into Photoshop where I changed the Hue/Saturation and moved my color marker to get a better value of color range.

Lecture #5

For lecture #5 for the tuesday lectures, Bradley Litwin, who lives in Philly, talked about kinetic sculptures and shared the importance of science and machines and how they relate to art. How technology was introduced and mixed with the multiple new methods that were invented to change the face of art. Bradley explained to us how he incorporated these new methods and forms of technology in his sculptures. He created some of the art works that are in the lobby that work on precise timing and move in multiple directions. Each sculpture is different from the next. You can see how mathematics, technology and art are working together to create such interesting pieces or art.

Mix and Match

This assignment was designed for us as an opener into the Photoshop application. We had to juxtapose the image that we had taken from around Philly with other images that we had gathered in Philly.

The first one is of a Steve Madden and Barnes and Nobles. I places these to images together because they both show linear perspective and they are contracting in both the literal and subliminal sense. For instance, the Steve Madden is in black and white, and it is also displaying people and shoes; while the Barnes and Nobles is clearly displaying books and is in Color.

The second is of a very famous architectural building in Philly (which i don't know the name of) and a Mannequin. I again juxtaposed color, but also mixing an organic shaped form with a more inorganic, geometric shaped form.

This is my final Mix and Match, where i chose a Fire Hydrant and a window display. Again differences in Black and white, but also the subliminal messaging of desirable and undesirable.

Warning Sign

This is my "Warning Sign" which is actually a crossing sign. I am actually a down home country girl at heart so I feel that I warn people about my country girl qualities. I created the form of the female, but taking the contour lines of the cowgirls form.