Final: Set-Up

Art History Inspired
Acrylic on Canvas
Compilation
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The final assignment was to create a body of work to distribute to my classmates on the final day of the semester. I decided to take my previous assignment further in creating a series of 16 art history inspired abstraction paintings. I chose to use a geometric style in recreating these iconic images.  
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5/6/14

Final: Art History Inspired Pieces

The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Hokusai
1830-1833 

The Creation of Adam
Michelangelo
1511 

The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali
1931 

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Pablo Picasso
1907 

The False Mirror
Rene Magritte
1928 

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Georges Seurat
1884 

The Kiss
Gustav Klimt
1908  

The Son of Man
Rene Magritte
1964

Marilyn Diptych
Andy Warhol
1962

Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci
1503-1517 

Oh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But...
Roy Lichtenstein
1964

Girl with a Pearl Earring
Johannes Vermeer
1902 

The Scream
Edvard Munch
1893-1910  

Starry Night
Vincent van Gogh
1889 

The Birth of Venus
Botticelli
1486 

Campbell's Soup Cans
Andy Warhol
1962 

Extra

Potassium 

14x7

Acrylic 

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I spent my saturday studying color theory. It was nice to create something that I did not have an assignment to cater to, a painting that I did simply because I enjoy the process of mixing colors. 

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4/26/14

Historical Content

18x24

"Six Dancers"
8x6

"Early in the Morning"
10x8

"Marian Anderson"
8x6

Historical Context 

Acrylic on Canvas 

Compilation 

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The assignment given was to choose a piece of art from the VMFA and use it as inspiration in creating a narrative. I however chose three pieces to demonstrate how art is constantly building on itself, how artists use what they learn through art history to find where their art fits into the contemporary art world. 

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4/28/14 

VMFA

             I spend my beautiful Sunday afternoon exploring the VMFA to do some research and search for inspiration for the upcoming 'Historic Context Assignment'. 

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4/13/14 

Major/Afo Assignment

Submerged Still Life
18x24
Gouache
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          Assigned to pursue an assignment given to first year students of our potential major. Getting this mock assignment by contacting a current upperclassman, giving me a great opportunity to talk with someone whom has first hand knowledge in what the next few years of my educational career in the Painting/Printmaking department will look a little something like. The assignment given to me was to paint a still life from direct observation and then place it in a made-up atmosphere. This challenges the artist in creating a believable composition by enforcing the consciousness of how the atmosphere will affect the objects included in the still life.
      I chose to create a narrative still life, placing this set-up underwater to fulfill the given assignment's requirements. What challenged me the most was using my limited skills and knowledge in creating a compelling submerged scene that acts upon the featured dry objects. 
Added onto this assignment is two more requirements. 1) to use a material that I have not yet used before and 2) to tackle this assignment in an AFO way. 
    I chose to take this opportunity to experiment with gouache and to create an AFO-like piece I chose to add audio to my painting. I looked at what we've been learning in class, how composition and color enhances a piece, and I wanted to see how adding audio would enhance or even chance the effect of the final piece. I accomplished this by playing deep ocean sounds through a hidden speaker behind the canvas. 
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5 minute example of complete piece with both painting and sound aspects 

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3/24/14

Hallway Piece

Documentation of the piece in its original location: the far end of the Bowe Street hallway. 

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3/5/14

Site Specific: Hallway

Snapshot
24 x 36
Acrylic
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          Assigned to create a sight specific piece where the placement greatly adds to the perception of the viewer. I was assigned 'hallway' as my location. With this, I decided to create a piece that used the entirety of the space intended for travel in order to see the image in full. The image on the left is what the portrait would look like from a relatively close distance and the image on the right depicts what it would like from a distance farther down the length of the hallway. 
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3/5/14

Research & Destroy: Stills

Featured above are stills from my Research & Destroyed  assignment. Included are 9 completed paintings that evolved from one another along with 3 compositions intended as transitional frames.  

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2/23/14

Research & Destroy

Dog Days  
Acrylic 
02:26
(loop after 00:29)

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         The prompt given was to create a piece, document it, and destroy.  The destroyed piece is then used as a base material and starting point for the next piece. It was instructed to repeat this process seven times over. The reason for this assignment was to practice presentation and how it can add context to a work of art. After creating and destroying the seven pieces we were challenged to find a successful way to display the entirety of the research-and-destroy process. I chose to project this stop motion of an evolving painting on the original canvas that featured reminisces of the underlying layers of paintings. Featured here is the video that was originally projected onto said canvas.
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2/23/14

Pattern & Representational Object

Faceless Flannel
22x20
Acrylic
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          Assigned to create a painting including both a representational object and a pattern. Problem solving skills were exercised in accomplishing the challenge of using color application to emphasize the subject. This being my first time experimenting with  acrylic paint I found it challenging to blend colors, for instance I found mixing colors to resemble a believable skin tone and shading to give the figure dimension especially demanding.  
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2/17/14

Abstract Compositions: Color Theory

Hereafter
22x30
Acrylic
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          Assigned to create two abstract compositions using the strict limited pallet of colors from previously created color charts. It is the main goal to gain an understanding of the use of color in emphasizing mood and emotion that is conveyed through the use of an aesthetically pleasing composition.
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2/10/14

Color Charts

Granny Smith Apple 

Scissors  

Orange (fruit) 

Finished Wood 

American Flag
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          A color theory exercise, mixing light and cool colors to gain knowledge on how colors interact with each other within a pallet. It was assigned to isolate promenade colors in five beautiful objects, including shadows and highlights, and create individual color charts segregating each objects tones to an isolated sector. The size of each color's sector will be directly correlated to the space that that particular tone uses throughout the object. 

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2/10/14

Abstract Cropping

Cropping of original "Groovy Blue Ridge Mountains" to create 20 abstract compositions. 

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2/4/14