Posted: April 15th, 2010 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artocalyptic News | Tags: atrium, atrium show, book store, charcoal, classroom without walls, collective memory, dean valadez, drawing, milwaukee, milwaukee arts, peck school of the arts, union art gallery, UWM Union Art Gallery, wisconsin | No Comments »
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The current Atrium show in the UW-Milwaukee Union will be up for only a couple more days so if you haven’t seen some of this awesome student work yet be sure to stop through. A description of the work is below and beyond that is a portion of the work in the show:
The works reference mass media visual culture in the manner of contemporary painter Johannes Kahrs: the students were to appropriate from any form of televisual, be it movies, television shows, videos, etc. They then had to remove the original context and supply a new one by combining these varying images. They also had to share their televisual pictures through my Classroom without Walls wiki, doubling the theme of ecology and collective constructs. Issues dealt with also involve Roland Barthes’ essay on the Death of the Author, whereby the original intentions of the depicted films or shows were reinterpreted and recontextualized. A full project description is posted on the Atrium Space’s walls.
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Posted: July 17th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Finished Works | Tags: 2007, andy fletcher, dean valadez, drawings, fall, old, spring | No Comments »
Several long lost chapters of my artwork have now resurfaced. This past weekend in Madison I was able to gather up work both from my childhood, but also from my drawing classes a couple years ago.
Yesterday I scanned in over 200 images and am slowly chipping away at them; editing, cropping, web readying them. For now, here are the best images from my Spring 2007/Fall 2007 drawing semesters:
The first drawing at Peck School of The Arts
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Posted: February 12th, 2009 | Author: Sean | Filed under: Artists, Sketches, Thoughts | Tags: a bill, classroom without walls, dean valadez | No Comments »
This blog has been dying, starved as it is of recent posts. I plan to remedy this right now.
I recently stumbled upon A Bill’s blog which I found through an online collaborative art project started by my most inspirational professor. A Bill’s work reminds me of some of my own, lots of detail, a digital vibe, and an inter connectivity between areas of the work. After doing a poor job on my last drawing assignment I was offered some helpful suggestions as to how I can better utilize my personal interests in art. My initial drawings were very fantasy oriented. Lots of monsters, battle scenes, warriors, futuristic machines, ect. In this regard I have always had an interest in representing the human form and environments attempting both 3d landscapes and ridgid topographical cities/battlefields. I was never really one for abstract pattern or loose scribbling. My drawing style was very tight. Hitting art school really changed the way I draw. I am much looser and more confident in my strokes.
I never realized until this week how similar my old drawings are to my current works. My interest in the figure and physical spaces are very strong to this day. The largest divertion from my original subject matter was my new interest in portraiture. However I still deal seriously with enviroments in my portraits. Anyways, what I realized was that I could perhaps combine my tight and loose styles. I did this once in my first drawing class to produce a portrait made entirely of triangles:
Exploring the hybridization of 3d and 2d spaces, ridgid and loose line qualities, and enviromental and figurative content is my new focus. Tonight I’m going to a bar to hear a friend on open mic night and yes I will be bringing my charcoal and papers.
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