Yale Summer Program “Statement of Objectives”
Posted: March 19th, 2009 | Author: TorkianMan | Filed under: Artocalyptic News | Tags: statement of objectives, yale | No Comments »I am constantly seeking artistic growth. As an artist, I feel the need to hone my technical skills because of the vigor it will lend to anything I create. I am actively developing a visual thought process, which enables me to create stronger images.
Not only do I strive to better understand visual elements in my own work, but also to understand the work of others. Just like negative and positive spaces, others’ artwork helps to define my own work.
One of my highest priorities is to work with other artists, both institutional and self-taught. I find collaboration to be essential to my personal artistic growth, driving me to begin the construction of a local, online artist community. My interest in your summer program stems not only from the classes offered but also from the chance to experience a community with new instructors and classmates.
Through my work I attempt to create my niche in the turbulent art world. A tumultuous economy combined with rapidly changing technological opportunities has created chaos in my artistic vision. Honestly, I do not have a strong conceptual core in my recent work; despite that fact that I have the desire and confidence to excel in the art world.
Before art school, my artwork embodied recurring themes of: war scenes, futuristic architecture, and maps of imaginary worlds. Art school drove me to seek a greater sense of realism. This distanced me from my past themes. Utilizing the visual skills I learned in school, I am revisiting these past themes through a graphic novel I am illustrating.
Armed with a new set of visual skills my goal is to reincorporate my old ideas. Reusing these themes, I wish to establish strong conceptual ideas to my future work. I hope that this summer program will allow me to grow artistically and develop a foundation as an emerging artist.
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