I have a perhaps-not-startling confession to make that the only news that I look at is a) what's on my twitter timeline b) the "LIS news and views" newsletter that one of our professors puts out, and c) ARTnews Daily. The benefit of ARTnews is they have a weekly newsletter that comes out on Wednesdays called How I Made This, which is much more interesting to me as an artist than, say, some art collector that I never heard of dying.
This week in How I Made This is the hyper-realistic colored pencil drawings of Cj Hendry. What most interested me about this article was that Cj Hendry organizes (and finances, though this part was not more detailed) her own exhibitions - her exhibition for her Rorschach show was set in an immersive white custom bouncy house - and that has me thinking about how to step further outside of the traditional gallery model when considering how to show work. I think the extra special touch for Rorschach was the little wristbands - it ties the whole exhibition together. Hyper-realism is always something that tempts me but the temptation never stays. I am too impatient, I think. When I was in undergrad I was in the Art Barn spending weeks on some pencil drawing of birds in a nest that I never finished. Now I'm absolutely beside myself if I can't get something finished in one sitting. Ah, well...
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I started this collage last night (and date stamped it so much that I also thought I would finish it last night), and I was treading water with it for a little while. Then today I woke up and was able to complete it fairly easily.
This kind or style of collage is not something I'm used to. And this is a small page! There is a lot of building up background in order to get it to look right. I am also pretty pell-mell about it - I didn't do much in the way of placing and then gluing, though I did for a couple of things - I just glue it and if it looks weird I glue over it with something else later. Hopefully I have already established to you, the gentle reader, how very impatient I am. I feel there's a sort of instinct about this - knowing when we have to push through to the other side, and knowing when trying to push is going to be counterproductive and we need to take a break. If I'm starting to get really frustrated because I don't know how to 'fix' something, then usually I need to get up and do something else for a little while. If I'm frustrated because I need more pictures that look orange, well, then I just gotta keep pushin' through. Sometimes I will show something to John Morgan, my art professor from undergrad, because I'll be stuck, and his advice is generally "Put it down and move on to the next one." We have to know when to advance, and when to retreat, in a way that works with our own unique way of working. |
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