(15)Teresita Fernandez

Teresita Fernández was born in 1968 in Miami, Florida and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is deeply inspired by nature. Almost like a stylized nature. I enjoy her work because it is an ode to nature without the overkill of it's message

(14)Lee Bul

Artist Lee Bul was born in 1964. She grew up in Seoul and received a BFA in sculpture from Hongik University. She is considered the leading Korean artist of her generation. She is internationally reknown for her formally inventive, intellectually provocative pieces. She works in just about every medium, and her multifaceted production is representative of the most innovative aesthetic currents shaping contemporary art in the world.

I truly love how diverse her work is. I almost feel as though I can relate to the "many mediums". I have always had a difficult time finding out what my favorite medium is; everything I have tried I tend to like, or if not like then love. I like how her sculptures vary in the medium,yet they still hold an aesthetic exclusively hers

(13)Nari Ward

Nari Ward was born in 1963 in St. Andrews, Jamaica and he currently lives and works in New York. Ward's dramatic sculptural installations are composed of systematically collected material from his urban neighborhood. His goal is to reaveal the numerous emotions inherent within found everyday objects. Ward's works regard issues surrounding race, poverty, and consumer culture.He takes a found object out of it's usual context and considers it for its shape, color, and overall visual quality. I like the fact that he uses found object to create a completely new shape by putting them together, which is basically what we did for our second project. His works are usually on a larger scale and can be quite overpowering, which is really good in this case.

(12)Mark Tansey

Mark Tansey is a postmodernist painter born in America in 1949. He is mostly known for his monochromatic works which include hidden texts, meaning, and symbols. They normally depict everyday scenes and object, but if you take a closer look at them, they seem to reveal some oddities. He does not consider himself a realist because he paints from photographs. I enjoy his work for his simplicity in the color palette, yet by doing that I believe he portrays a very strong, almost controversial, image.

Lost Things

I absolutely love this stop motion short film! It's quite pretty to be honest. Awesome song too. The one below it is amazing as well.

(11)Mark Khaisman

Mark Khaisman was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1958. He works with tape, and describes his work as dealing with " accident and control". Maybe the accident part came from his medium. What he does is layer tape on plexiglass in order to create these amazing images. I found his work ubber impressive not because they are created in about a week, but because of his use of the material. I especially like those of what seems like 1920/30 movie stills.

(10)Brock Davis

Brock Davis' work is just random, I have come to find. Silly, yet it does put one's perspective on things into physical reality, which is what art is right? or maybe not. He has started an online/physical project by creating a piece of art everyday. I like his sillyness.

(9)Ehren Reed

So I found this artist and realized that her ideas are almost like my ideas, however, she puts them into perspective a bit differently. Ehren Elizabeth Reed is an artist that mixes traditional crafts with contemporary media and consumer culture. In other words, her work may be classified as really crafty pop art. She combines the digital world with the manual physical labor of sewing, embroidery, etc. I like her work in the sense that it dabs into a bit of how I see things...just a bit. I also wish I would've found this artist when we did our book project, for that is a large part of her work.

(8)Yinka Shonibare

Yinka Shonibare was born in London, England in 1962, but was raised in Nigeria. He studied at Byam Shaw School of Art and London Univeristy. He challanges the idea of cultural identity in his work. He works in a variety of mediums including painting, sculpture, photopraphy, and film. His work strongly reveal his love for art history, literature, and philosophy. I like the twist he puts on tradition and colonialism. He incorporates different fabrics and patterns, which brings in that questioning of cultural identity. It also brings forth something refreshing in what we are so used to looking at when it comes to the subject. My favorites of his are his recreations of Goya's "Sleep of Reason". His series of these include different cultures. The one I have included at the top is that of America.

Break

Just something that I drew from spring break boredom

Forever

So I "stumbled-upon" this short film. I thought it was kind of cute(because I don't know any other word to describe it), so I'd thought I'd share. Here is the link to it: foreversnotsolong.com

(7)Sam Jinks

Hyper-realist sculptor Sam Jinks is from Melbourne, Australia. He draws attention to life's disposability. His work is also about how one changes mentally, not only physically from sickness. He plays with the psychological effects sickness, old-age, and death have on individuals. His pieces reflect on the inner-most workings going on through the human mind in all aspects of life. A thought is brought forth into reality, which may be part of the reason why he has chosen to portray these figures in such a realistic light. I like the realness in Jink's work. Not just because they look real, but his sculptures also express how we feel about certain things in a very real, almost surreal, light.

(6)Langdon Graves

Brooklyn based artist Langdon Graves does a variety of work in regards to her stance on femininity and the role of women. She is a professor at Parson's in NYC. She has done sculpture, as well as drawings in regards to subjected femininity. I really enjoy her work. I find it rather beautiful and haunting at the same time. The detail in the hair is amazing, and her soft, limited color pallet really brings out a slight eeriness, which I love. I really love her drawings more than her sculpture, which is why I chose to solely include some.

Eargasm

My latest music addiction:

Yeasayer-Ambling Alp

Journal Exercise for 3/4/2010

Response to "On the Rights of Molotov Man"

An article by Joy Garnett and Susan Meiselas

Above top: Meiselas, Above bottom: Garnett

• The article deals with the points of view of both Garnett and Meiselas
• Meiselas was the original photographer of what came to be know as The Molotov Man. She primarily works to document human-rights issues in Latin America. "What is happing is anything but a riot," she explains, which is what the painter Garnett transformed the photo into.
• Garnett was working on a series of paintings known as the Riot Series. She simply searched for riot-like images on the internet and came across the image of the Molotov Man. She thought it the most powerful of all of the images she had found and decided to use it as the image on the announcement card. She then started to receive notices that the image originally belonged to Susan Meiselas.
• The case between Meiselas and Garnett was blown out of proportion. Meiselas just wanted credit for the original source of the painting, and Garnett agreed to do so. In the end Meiselas didn't really charge Garnett
• MY TAKE- I believe both artists have a valid point. For if the original image is set out in the internet under the context for which Garnett was searching for, then somebody else may have thought it in the same way as she did. Meiselas, however, is the owner of the original photograph and therefore should receive full credit of the image in any way or time it is reproduced