Welcome to Visual Hierarchy, an online visual playground. Gathered here are pictures I make. Visual Hierarchy is a laboratory. Research is done in a wide variety of mediums.
This painting was documented and that footage was transformed into this video. My goal is to show some of the behind the scenes processes of making a painting as well as the transformations that can take place in an artwork.
The song “Bitter Suite” by MoPetto was used in this video. Check out more MoPetto Here.
Kate Brandt Pink opens at the University of Wisconsin Union Art Gallery tomorrow (friday march 5th) from 5-8pm
MILWAUKEE—KATE BRANDT PINK, an international group exhibition, will take place at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from March 5, 2010 to April 2, 2010 in the Union Art Gallery. The art in the exhibition confronts power roles, gender, race, fame, and class issues within the perspective of the greater arts community. It opens with a reception from 5-8pm on Friday, March 5. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
In 1960, neo-Dada artist Yves Klein made a splash at an exhibition by using nude female models as living paintbrushes, making work with his signature color, International Klein Blue. UWM artist Kate Brandt comments on, confronts, and even exorcises the ghost of this “legendary” artist with a group exhibition of visual performance artists all of whom use her self selected shade of pink. In their work, these contemporary artists address ideas of gender, power roles, race, fame, class issues and more in a variety of mediums, including live performances (at the opening reception), photography, sculpture, video, and painting.
Artists include: Kate Gilmore, Ryan Trecartin, Franko B, Stuart Semple, Heather Warren-Crow, Kate Brandt, Kimberly Brandt, Cassandra Smith, A. Bill Miller, Emily Walley, Kristen Olsen, Naomi Shersty, Sarah Holden, Anna Helgeson, Richard Mutz, and many others.
***Heather Warren-Crow invites viewers to participate in her work by documenting her opening night performance using cell phone cameras. Please make her dream come true by posting a short video to YouTube and emailing the link to art_gallery@uwm.edu
Your video will become part of a playlist that will be exhibited at the Union Art Gallery.
We find glory in the conveniences of the machine. It’s precision and efficiency is something unknown to man. Man who sleeps, man who eats, man is forced to make judgments, to make adjustments, the machine simply works, accomplishes, achieves. This clear mirror is obvious, man is to machine, what animal is to man. There is a shift that must take place. Man must become like machine. In life, in sleep, in art. We, the new futurists exclaim EMBRACE the nature of machine. Accept its rigidity, its simple contours, its efficient action.
We will first make ourselves like a machine through our artwork. It has been known for centuries that mans motives, mans objectives, mans destiny exists first in art. To integrate the machine into man, we must make art the focus of the machine. Art will function. Art will accomplish a mean, not just serve as a petty point of discussion. Art will permeate the minds of the masses, spreading the machine.
Ah but the common man will not see the glory of the machine! What goal worthy of accomplishing has not met resistance! We must embrace the challenge. We must spread the glory of the machine. It will begin in the galleries. The first display, a saw, a clock, its gears keeping time to our coming glory! It will be ridiculed. The resisting forces will exclaim “but your work, it is nothing more than tools, than props, a decadent abstracted statement at best!” What do the masses know! Decadent, abstracted, this is their perception of our meaning! What meaning do we find in art, none in their terms! Our art does not comment upon the human condition. It CHANGES the human condition. Its action destroys the past barriers; it destroys the notion of humanity by every decent standard!
The movement will spread. It must, the utility of our movement will be seen by the pragmatic. It will spark the minds of the next generation, the leading generation! We will seize what is ours, our art will be seen in every avenue of the earth!
New futurists. You must embrace the machine at all costs!
Do you not know the evil we will endure through failure! Man will continue to live, nothing more than a beast! Scavenging on the waste of the land, consuming the products of machine but rejecting machines glorious nature! Come forth my generation, and become, the chosen generation.
Huffing turpenoid isn’t good for your health which is why I’ve moved my studio to school for the semester. Our windows are officially plastic sealed at the house and anything that goes into the air stays. Last year I made the mistake of spraying a large series of drawings with matte medium in the basement. Not without reason the neighbors upstairs were a bit pissed. Staying out late at school last night was rather enjoyable, lots got done and now I can turn my attention to finishing compiling my entire art history. After this weekend I hope to have every “important” artwork of mine photo documented, in my archives, and available on the web. This whole documentation thing is becoming more and more of an obsession, I blame the internets. I will probably have upwards of 500 “important” works, which I will have one hell of a time organizing. After that I plan on producing a book chronicling all the work to date to really visualize my visual developments.
I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading on consumerism, the environment, and agriculture of late. My studio classes this semester are pretty research oriented and I’m really digging it. I love learning about “non-art” subjects and making them into art. Here are some sketches just laying some ideas about.
Some questions I have been asking are: Can the earth sustain humankind’s growth? What are some ways to increase the efficiency of agriculture in an Urban context? How do our manufactured environments effect us?
For those in the MKE area, I alert you of a new art show at Abu’s (1978 N Farwell Ave – see map below). It has some of my drawings and paintings from last year as well as a selection of my latest pen drawings. In addition, there is photography by Nathaniel Haack. Abu’s has renovated and re-opened under new management; the food is great and the prices are just as good. Definitely check it out, you won’t regret it!
I recently visited New York City for the first time with my family. Coming from Milwaukee, a city of close a couple million, I was overwhelmed (in a good way). The majority of our time was spent wandering the streets soaking in the city and the people in it. It was a joy and it was transforming. Here were some of my favorite parts:
While there I managed to check out MOMA. My grandmother, Caroline Greenwald, has work in their collection and so we were able to view her work. Afterward we explored their current exhibitions. Several artghasms ensued. Here were some I found particularly fascinating: (hover over image for artist and title)
I’ve finally finished setting up the wordpress online store, which can be found here, or by clicking the “purchase” link up top. So far I’ve been keeping to my 1 drawing a day so, one could expect regular uploads of new work for sale!
A month later I’ve finally sifted through all my photos and picked out my favs from Art Chcago. I apologize ahead of time for the lack of information on these images. No titles or artists, its heresy I realize that, but you’ll forget about it once you start looking at how awesome these works are.
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