visual hierarchy » brutal http://seanbodley.com [images by Sean Bodley] Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:11:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Flora/Fauna – Art by Kako Ueda and Roxanne Jackson at UWM Union Art Gallery http://seanbodley.com/2010/02/13/florafauna-art-by-kako-ueda-and-roxanne-jackson-at-uwm-union-art-gallery/ http://seanbodley.com/2010/02/13/florafauna-art-by-kako-ueda-and-roxanne-jackson-at-uwm-union-art-gallery/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:37:39 +0000 Sean http://seanbodley.com/?p=2214 The gallery I work at (UAG) has a pretty badass show going on currently called Flora/Fauna.  If any of you are in the Milwaukee area or are passing through, definitely check it out.  I did a post on Roxanne Jackson awhile back, some of the work in that post is worth looking at. Here is what we have in the show:

Roxanne Jackson:

Eat Your Heart Out

Becoming and Solid Gold

Untitled

Rorschach hide

Eat Your Heart Out

Stigma

White Diamond

Lyuba

Pachyderm

Forgotten

Golden

At the artist talk before the opening of the show Roxanne discussed the ideas surrounding her work.  Transformation from man into creature or beast is a recurring theme as well as animal hybrids.  I agree with Roxanne in that such a transformation is a fantasy, that we are already beasts, yet we often fear our animal nature in desperate attempt to feel superior.  I don’t care so much for her works with wigs, but her ceramic heads and animals are fantastic.  They draw on goth and horror aesthetics.  Being a metal head I find much of her work exceedingly, specifically the black heads with jaws pushing out of the human mouth.

Kako Ueda:

Eros & Thanatos

Eros & Thanatos


Totem

Totem

Totem

Totem

Totem

Totem

Totem

Totem

Totem

Totem

Inside Out

Dreaming of Foetus

Antennae


Gaze

Kako’s usage of paper started in a happenstance sort of way.  She’s always been using paper as a drawer, but many years ago she just sort of started cutting it one night.  What ensued was a series of beautifully crafted and composed artworks.  A large theme in her work is life and death.  Life needs death and death life.  To depict this she uses imagery of plants, insects, eggs, a skull, and faces.  In her work “Totem” (the red paper cut outs above) are a string of narratives composing her own totem pole of sorts.  Clown imagery is drawn from her mother’s interest and collection of clown dolls.  The other narratives are privately inspired and we can only conclude them in our imagination.

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]]> http://seanbodley.com/2010/01/26/daily-image-sixty-eight-puppy-helm/feed/ 0 UWM Union Art Gallery: Flora/Fauna Opens this Friday! http://seanbodley.com/2010/01/25/uwm-union-art-gallery-florafauna-opens-this-friday/ http://seanbodley.com/2010/01/25/uwm-union-art-gallery-florafauna-opens-this-friday/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:21:41 +0000 Sean http://seanbodley.com/?p=2131 The University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Union Art Gallery is starting the semester right with an intense, brutal, and beautiful exhibit with artists Kako Ueda and Roxanne Jackson.  Details Below:

Flora/Fauna

Work by Kako Ueda and Roxanne Jackson

January 29-February 26, 2010

Opening reception: Friday, January 29, 5-8pm

Gallery talk with artists: 4pm

Kako Ueda and Roxanne Jackson focus on physical nature and human nature in abstract and inventive ways.  They share an interest in dualities, such as nature and culture, light and dark. In their work, the natural world is intricate, fascinating, grotesque, frightening – something to be drawn deeply into and sometimes shocked by.

New York artist Kako Ueda constructs her work from intricate hand-cut paper which references, in part, paper cutting from Japan where she was born. Minneapolis-based Roxanne Jackson works three-dimensionally with clay to form large compositions of human/animal hybrids.

UWM Union Art Gallery

2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Campus level

www.unionartgallery.uwm.edu

414-229-6310

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From her artist statement:

“I like to work as a visual devil’s advocate, using contradiction as a vehicle for finding my way to an empathetic image, an image of opposition that creates a balance – as well as a clash – by comparing and contrasting ideas and materials.This manifested in a series of “Industrial Doilies”, pulling together industrial and domestic life as well as relationships of strong and delicate, masculine and feminine, practical and frivolity, ornament and function. There is also a secondary relationship being explored here, of lace used in religious ceremonies as in weddings, christenings and funerals.”

I found this piece to be pretty humorous and different compared to her other works:

Thanks to Acid Cow

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Click for a better image:Mega_s

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