artistsss

http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artist.php

Great googa mooga!

http://www.bornrich.org/entry/damien-hirst-unveils-98m-diamond-skull-for-the-love-of-god/

Sidewalke Chalk Artists

Julian Beever and Edgar Mueller
article pix are from

according to artist, robert irwin, art is not simply about paintings and sculptures and objects as much as it is about the revealing of human consciousness and perception. an art object is not just a thing to be looked at, but a piece of someone's mind in material form. the mastering of conventional media amd technical expertise, though to be valued, shouldn't necessarily be the main goals of art. perhaps successfully bringing to people some kind of engaging sensory experience is just as important. it seems when art is purely focused on technical perfection or the concreteness of an object, often times the true essence of something is glanced over, and the parts that are actually lively and fluid become rigid. the ability to capture essence reveals a fuller understanding of something, an understanding beyond what is visible.

scientific art, artistic science

an intriguing set of articles dealing with connections between art and science:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4111499

Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah

The ~Tree of Utah~





I'm copy and pasting the blurb on Utah's website because... well because I feel like it.

Swedish artist Karl Momen created the 87-foot high tree between 1982-1986. He financed the project himself to bring bold color and beauty to the stark, flat, salty landscape. The sculpture is made of 225 tons of cement, almost 2,000 ceramic tiles and five tons of welding rod, and tons of minerals and rocks native to Utah.

Also called the "Tree of Life," the sculpture is located on the north side of I-80 about 95 miles west of Salt Lake City (25 miles east of Wendover). The location is interesting because the harsh environment here hindered many travelers in pioneer times. Members of the ill-fated Donner Party were tragically delayed in this area before their awful demise in the Sierra Nevada mountains. During WWII, the crew of the Enola Gay practiced bombing runs over the Great Salt Lake Desert before proceeding to Hiroshima to end the war.

After completing his work Momen returned to Sweden, donating the sculpture to the state of Utah.

Art Critic Katherine Metcalf used these words to sum up the project: "...Like Kandinsky in the 1920s, so Momen in the 1980s combines his love of color, circles, and cosmic space in a personal hymn to the universe; and like Kandinsky, he is very 'romantic' and musical. The inscription on the trunk of the tree is Schiller's Ode to Joy, as sung in the choral climax of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony."

The Detroit Airport's All Over Art

Sunday afternoon and Monday morning I got to grace the halls of the Detroit Metro Wayne County Airport, aka DTW. While I'd rather not rehash the events, I did get to revisit the tunnel that connects Terminals B and C to A on the Northwest WorldGateway side. On to the fun.

The tunnel is a light show synchronized with music, created by SmithGroup, Inc. However, at 10 at night the lights are still and the hall is silent. The walls are made of glass and have varying textures and indentations to change how the light gets bent. The big patterns I usually see are blue and red, though there is a purple and yellow pattern and a green and blue one as well. YouTube videos galore for this one. I snapped a few for you guys and found a link.

In the designy section of the airport (yes that is a technical term, "designy," meaning that it looks like a lot of protractors were involved) there is a playful water sculpture that usually has a crowd near it. Grabbed a shot of that as well. I haven't found much about it on the internet, but maybe I haven't been looking hard enough. There's a vid on YouTube, don't you worry.

Internet Humor

Meghan Murphy has a website for her art that mocks cutesy Asian cartoons. Yesssss.


It's been popping up on the internet this summer.

Nine Inch Nails

With Nine Inch Nails' latest album, Year Zero, Trent Reznor is involving more than just music. The group has teaser trailers out on YouTube. They have the username takeparepin, and browsing around I saw more videos from different users. Are they actual individuals making their own copycat videos or are they part of the group? OR are they part of the group BECAUSE they are making the copycats? Dundunnnnn. A few tracks are available for people to tinker with on audio editing software. Are people that edit the songs now part of the experience?!

A big question to ponder is, Is this marketing? They say it isn't; the videos are part of the piece as a whole. Check it out. http://iamtryingtobelieve.com/ and http://yearzero.nin.com/. The new album on CD looks black with black when you first get it... after it plays it turns white. Super cool temperature color change.



And just for kicks, an interview with Exotic Birds, when Reznor was a tot in the music business and wore trendy clothes.

howdy from Colorado...

hey kids... i'm going to be in Colorado and Arizona for the next couple weeks. Does anyone know about anything art/sculpture related that I should look for??
that's all...
hope everyone's summer is full of excitement
peace
angie

we were talking about maya lin (architect & sculptor) today in our art in urban settings class, and i came across this quote from her book, "boundaries".

“I began reading about fluid dynamics and flight turbulence and I talked to the professors of the aerospace engineering department there, just trying to get an idea of what went on in the building. And then, boom! One day I just opened a book, saw this image of a stokes water wave—a natural occurring wave—and knew that was what the piece was going to be about. You can only do so much analytic research and then I shut that side of me down and flip it and allow the true intuitive side to take over. You have to have faith in the magic. You cannot find a reason for everything you make, but that doesn’t make it less thoughtful. It’s very complex how we think. I like that. I like the mystery of creativity.”

this reminds me of one of sam's projects:

check out this link
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009518.php

Creativity and Education

I thought that this was an interesting video about the importance of art.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66

Sorry some are sideways, I'll try to fix that at some point. Great job this year everybody!!

Just some random project pics I had

Just some random project pics I had

More Artwork

turnip babies!

awwww. These turnips were by Jessica Roberts and Katie Yancey.



Whaley has a home! Julia Wolf



baffroom. Giselle Vaca and Steph Haddad.

Comic book art

Scott McCloud was in Chambana and gave a talk last Monday evening. He mentioned quite a bit of authors/artists. Here are some that I scribbled down: Bryan Lee O'Malley, Will Eisner, Art Spielgelman. Yay links.

Check out http://www.keenspot.com for a variety of comics. No Pink Ponies is a good one for marvel and dc comic book readers.

mentioned in class on 4-18

classes to take this fall:
Laurie Hogan's writing class ARTS 499
Ryan Griffin's tourism 499

random:
Gallery: Feature in NYC
Artnet.com (magazine)
Sara Lucas
Jerry Saltz: art writer
Kern: new artist to check out
jameswagner.com : publishes artcal (his blog)
Mary Lucier: video
Mathew Higgs: white columns gallery curator
_____ Carter: Melissa's former student who's working in New York now
Nancy Reubens

hey everyone should check out the James Kalm video on youtube of Melissa's recent show in Brooklyn. It's pretty awesome and really funny.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8hn7OcR0CuM

photos from sculpture II- spring '07

"pimp out your hairballs."
-angie kealey










































































these are just the photos I had on my computer from sculpture II so far. Feel free to add more from this semester and label as you see fit. -ang

hey party people

welcome to our new blog. Now we can network more efficiently with each other and have a place to post various artists and events that melissa mentions in class, that many of us neglect to write down. Feel free to post absolutely anything that you find interesting or think the group may find interesting. peace
angie
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