Thursday, January 29, 2015

Class#8 Illusion o Space, HW: Something's Not Right in the World - Due Feb 2



HW: Something’s not Right in the World -Due Feb 2
Materials:Bristol Board, glue, magazines for collaging, pencil and sketchbook for thumbnails, 
6x8 inches or larger on a bristol board sheet



Time: 90 mins- 2 hours


This assignment challenges you to make a image much like the French Surrealist, Rene Magritte,  an illusion of a highly-believable world, in which one thing breaks the rules of believable scale, perspective, overlap, etc., creating a strange, disturbing, uncanny (Surrealistic!) experience.


1.  Create a collage from magazine clippings of a scene, using some of the techniques from the Illusion of Space lesson: 
Scale, Overlap, Linear Perspective, Atmospheric Perspective, Value Contrast, Color Saturation

to create as convincing an illusion of space as possible. Is it an indoor or outdoor setting? Is it day or night? A scene in a kitchen? A NYC streetscene? Some hikers in the himalayas?

Try to make the believeable scene from many separate images. 


2. Once you have established a believable space, add one element that somehow breaks that illusion, 
whether because it’s
 the wrong scale in relation to the other elements, 
it breaks the rules of perspective
or in some other way is completely wrong in the scene.

Tip: The better the illusion of space, the more dramatically that “something not right” will stand out.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Extra Credit: Visit an Exhibition & Analyze

Extra Credit Gallery Visit & Analysis: Worth One HW Assignment
Due by last class, February 23rd. 


Your task is to visit one of the below NYC galleries, take some time with the whole exhibition and answer the following questions about one of the 2-Dimensional works in the show.
You can email me the answers, written out in paragraph form, along with image of the artwork, and a selfie of you in the gallery to prove that you were there to absorb the culture in person.

Note: Make sure you note  the exhibition dates and gallery hours before visiting the show!


Questions:

1. Please list the details of the exhibition; name of artist, exhibition, gallery.

2. Please list the details of the artwork; title, materials, size.

3. Give a general description of the arwork.

4. How is the element of Line used to divide up the compositon, lead the eye through the space, etc?

5. How are the shapes arranged in the space to create unity, and to create visual balance?

6. Talk about the scale relationship of the parts to one another and to the whole image.

7. Does the artist attempt to create an illusion of space? If so, how? 

8. If you were to say that the image is concerned with one design principle above others, which would that be?(Unity, Balance, Scale & Proportion, Contrast &
Emphasis, Rhythm) Please explain.

9. What do these design choices suggest about the meaning of the work?





Djordje Ozbolt More paintings about poets and food at Hauser & Wirth Through FEB 21



Hauser & Wirth
32 East 69th Street
New York NY 10021
Gallery hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 6 pm
Location map



Tal -R Cheim & Read

Tal R: Altstadt Girl
January 15 – February 14, 2015
Cheim & Read 547 West 25th Street
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Agustin Fernandez

Mitchell Algus Gallery 132 Delancey Street, 2nd Floor New York, 10002 (212) 844-0074 office@mitchellalgusgallery.com

Paintings and works on paper January 25 – March 8, 2015
Wed – Sun, 11am – 6pm




Parra

Parra
Yer So Bad


Solo Exhibition
557C West 23rd Street

January 8, 2015 through February 7, 2015
HOURS
Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm


Mexican pulp art





Uche Okeke "Works on Paper, 1958-1993" at Skoto Gallery
Ends February 21st, 2015




Mixed Media: Shaun O'Dell "By Cloud" at Susan Inglett Gallery
Ends January 31st, 2015


http://nancymargolisgallery.com/
Painting: Heidi Howard "Portraits from 2014" at Nancy Margolis Gallery
Ends February 14th, 2015


Devin Troy Strother "Space Jam" at Marlborough Gallery (Chelsea)
Ends February 14th, 2015


Ganzeer "ALL AMERICAN" at Leila Heller Gallery
Ends February 21st, 2015


Cullen Washington Jr. "Space Notations" at B2OA
Ends February 21st, 2015
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Monday, January 26, 2015

Class#7: Scale and Illusion of Space

Watch the Lecture and then do the HW below for WEDNESDAY, 1/28/15




Exercise/HW:  Abstract Space
Materials:
Micron pens and sharpie
1 sheet bristol board
Use micron pens and Sharpie to create a black and white, ABSTRACT composition, with as real an illusion of space as possible.

The composition should be entirely abstract, no imagery or text whatsoever.It can look very close to a Bridget Riley OP Art painting, an Al Held image, or the composition can be inspired by natural forms, as in the electron microscope images.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Class #5 and 6 Pattern/Texture & Balance

HW #4:
“The Hairy Question Mark”
Surrealist Texture Compositions

Materials: 11x14” bristol board, exacto knife, textures (from magazines and/or rubbings), and glue

Use a combination of  your texture rubbings made by hand and some textures taken from magazines, and create an asymmetrically balanced composition that responds to the surrealist phrase that you pulled from the surrealist title generator.For instance, my own choice:

"Glorious Creamy Guide"

Try not to use actual imagery when making your collages, but feel free to be suggestive of imagery (think of Max Ernst's Frottage Prints….)




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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Class#4: Shape and Unity

HW#2 The Expanded Square


Materials and Format:
black paper, rubber cement, x-acto knife, sheet of bristol paper (can be oriented
horizontally or vertically)
Assignment:
This assignment is about exploring variations of shape and the relationship of  positive/negative shapes. Beginner artists often focus on just the positive shapes
when composing an image, but this assignment will require you to think simultaneously
about the positive and negative shapes you are creating.
Cut out a 5 inch square from the black paper. The square should be as perfect as
possible -- uneven sides or angles will skew the exercise. Use a T-square or a triangle
to get good 90 degree angles.
Begin cutting out interesting shapes from the side of the square and then flip, rotate, or
slide each piece out. Do not discard any pieces -- every shape you cut out must be
used in the final design. The final design should have a good balance between positive
and negative shapes (not too much white, not too much black), and a lot of visual
interest. You will probably have to start over with a fresh square at least once.
Once you are satisfied with your design, figure out where you want to place it on your
sheet of Bristol board (you can orient the bristol board horizontally or vertically) and
carefully glue all the pieces down with rubber cement.

 
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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Class #3: MOMA visit


The Museum of Modern Art Feild Trip (to see the Matisse Cutout show).
53rd between 5 and 6th avenue. Meet right inside the entrance between 1:30-1:45.

Bring your Laguardia Student ID, sketchbook, pencil, and HW assignment.

11 W 53rd. E,M to 5av/53rd or B,D,F,M to Rockefeller Center


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Class#2: Line and HW# 1


HW#1    LINES & OPPOSITES
Materials and Format: 11x 14 inch Bristol Board, micron pens, sharpie
Following up on your abstract line exploration of an emotion from class,

create two more 5x5” squares using all lines to express opposite emotions or sensations.
The drawings should be as different and evocative of your chosen terms as possible.
Examples are; stressed out/calm, nervous/peaceful, fearful/confident, logical/whimsical, magical/mundane, aggressive/passive, wonderful/dismal,

use two sheets of 11x14 bristol board. With a ruler draw 5” two squares on the page,  as shown below.





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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Class#1: Introduction

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