project #4: research paper & presentation.

Kerry James Marshall
Chantalle Donice Martin

Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, and was educated at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, from which he received a BFA, and an honorary doctorate in 1999. A painter, photographer, master draftsman, video maker, and sculptor, Kerry James Marshall explores contemporary political realities of life in urban America.

Kerry James Marshall was influenced by a wide range of historical references such as; Renaissance, Black Folk Art, El Greco & Charles White.

T-shirt designed by Kerry James Marshall ($28)
Kerry James Marshall is known for large-scale paintings, sculptures, and other objects that take African-American life and history as their subject matter. His work has been exhibited in many American and international exhibitions, and in 1998, he had his first major solo exhibition, organized at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. In 2007, he was featured in Documenta 12. Marshall studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, from which he received a BFA and an honorary doctorate in 1999.
This Could Be Love, 1992
Paintings
Exhibited in New York, Spring 1993
Fire destroys one of the country’s largest private collection of African and African-American art
On July 29, a fire destroyed one of the country’s largest private collections of African and African-American art–more than 300 sculptures, paintings, photographs and works in other media by Kerry James Marshall, Nick Cave, Jacob Lawrence, Romaire Bearden, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Yinka Shonibare and others.  Prominent activist and art collector Peggy Cooper Cafritz was out of town when a fire consumed her Washington, D.C. home and burned it to the ground.

August 10, 2009

http://www.oprah.com/slidepopup/omagazine/200908-omag-art-house/1

They Know That I Know, 1992
Acrylic paint and mixed media on canvas
Heirlooms and Accessories, 2002
This piece touches on race, politics, and contemporary society.  The emotional charge in Marshall’s work parallels that of Walker’s.  At first glace, each panel of this triptych portrays a different beautiful locket containing an image of a white woman. Each locket is made from either gold, silver, or pearl, and is used as a device to frame the portraits of the women.  However, one finds grotesque images hidden in each panel when looked at more closely.  A superimposed likeness of a lynching emerges from the background, juxtaposing the false nature of appearance with the horror of such a violent crime.  This suggests white women’s complicity in horrific racial events often associated only with men.
Black Romantics

SOUVENIR:
On a quiet Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, four young black girls were preparing their Sunday School lessons in the basement of the 16th Street Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. In the same basement sat a bomb placed by Ku Klux Klansmen in protest of the forced integration of Birmingham’s public schools. Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Addie Mae Collins were killed in the explosion. Angry blacks rioted and the civil authorities responded with great violence. During the rest of the day, other black youths were murdered by police and civilians alike, compounding the desperation. The events surrounding the 16th Street bombing became one of the defining moments of the early Civil Rights Movement.
Composition in Three Parts, 1998-2000
Enamel on plastic, wood and glass shelf with steel bracketand chain, plastic flowers, ribbon and framed video still98 x 32 x 22 inches
The Rythm Mastr Project

http://www.wexarts.org/learn/for_teens/Rythm_Mastr/

The Lost Boys
Kerry James Marshall, Exposition view of The Lost Boys between old paintings in Schloß Wilhelmshöhe. © Kerry James Marshall, 1993. Photo: Frank Schinski/documenta GmbH.

Kerry James Marshall, Exposition view of The Lost Boys between old paintings in Schloß Wilhelmshöhe. © Kerry James Marshall, 1993. Photo: Frank Schinski/documenta GmbH.
Lost Boys: AKA 8 ball (1992)
Lost Boys: AKA Baby Brother (1992)

The sheer beauty of his work speaks to an art that is simultaneously formally rigorous and socially engaged.

“You still have to earn your audience’s attention every time you make something”

“You can’t be born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 and grow up in South Central [Los Angeles] near the Black Panthers headquarters, and not feel like you’ve got some kind of social responsibility. You can’t move to Watts in 1963 and not speak about it. That determined a lot of where my work was going to go”

Galleries

http://www.jackshainman.com/artist-images1.html

http://www.gregkucera.com/marshall.htm

Art Shows
Legacy: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery
Freedom to Expand: Contemporary African American Art from the CollectionJanuary 16 – April 25, 2010

Mr. Marshall has been hailed as
“Gifted Storytelling Painter”
Bibliography

http://www.fashiontrendsetter.com/content/press/2008/GAP-Artist-Editions-T-shirts-p6.html

http://www.denverartmuseum.org/collections/objectDetails/objectId–177694

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/marshall/index.html

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Kerry+James+Marshall%27s+Heirlooms+and+Accessories++filterui%3aimagesize-large&qpvt=Kerry+James+Marshall%27s+Heirlooms+and+Accessories+&FORM=R5FD2#focal=8252b59cac93e35a28d9cec729cf68ae&furl=http%3A%2F%2Fmodernmask.org%2FHeirlooms.jpg

Articles

http://www.miamiartmuseum.org/pdf/MAM%20Kerry%20James%20Marshall.pdf

project #5: final.

youtube.

Chapter 2: Digital Technologies as a Medium

• Forms of Digital Art & Installation

  • Experiments with the tension between physical and virtual
    • Fusing the physical and virtual but most of all making digital medium into actual space
  • Not permanent
  • No predetermined scale (when you’re projecting you can make the size of the image whatever you want)

• Film, Video & Animation

  • Digital medium has affected & reconfigured the digital image
    • The ability to interact with art
  • Recording real events
    • Streaming

• Internet Art & Nomadic Network

  • Deals with really getting into the world wide web
    • exploration of remote presence and communication
      • Video conferencing, web cam, Skype, browser art
  • Information is subject to the infinite recycling and reproduction
    • Similar to what we are doing in class, the way we keep appropriating images
      

• Software Art

  • Artists inform in their signature and voice
  • Visual results are derived from the visual language of code
    • Unlike physical manipulation with charcoal, or paint

• Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality

  • Basically copying the tangible into the digital realm
  • Art is about immersing the user into a 3D world
    • Actually giving them a perception of space
  • Virtual reality is not used to create an alternate world but to create a CLASH of realities of physical location and perception
    

• Sound & Music

  • Presents auditory and visual information simultaneously from the artists perspective
    

Brenda

David

Tess

Sarah

The Hybrid Invention Generator c.2002

Chantalle

Hallucination c 1988-90

Where is digital art going? What is the next step?

assignment #4 – analyze an ad.

What makes an ad successful?

Giving a person the idea that they need what is being shown or that they will benefit from purchasing the product.

How does the ad utilize formal elements to convey meaning?

How does the information flow? How are you visually let through the image?

assignment #6 – define metaphor and cliche.

metaphor (noun) met·a·phor

1. implicate comparison

the use to describe somebody or something of a word or phrase that is not meant literally but by means of a vivid comparison expresses something about him, her, or it

2. figurative language

all language that involves figures of speech or symbolism and does not literally represent real things

3. symbol

one thing used or considered to represent another

cliche (noun) cli·ché

1. overused expression

a phrase or word that has lost its original effectiveness or power from overuse

2. overused idea

an overused activity or notion

assigment #2 – response to chapter one.

beauty.

• Encarta defines beauty as “the combination of qualities that make something pleasing and impressive to look at, listen to, touch, smell, or taste.”
  • Digital art has impacted the definition of beauty. It’s impacted every aspect of beauty. Not only can someone be physically alerted with digital processes but a voice is digitally enhanced before being recorded onto a CD. One thing that has withstood the effects of digital art is touch but as I write this I think about how you can see an image and imagine how it feels and I continue to develop this idea and it comes to me that even touch has been affected. Smells are another aspect that I image would be difficult to alter with digital art but I could be over thinking this aspect and the last aspect of beauty that is hard to image being altered by digital art is taste but again I could be over looking something.
    • I typed “beauty” into the Bing search engine and this is the first image that I found. I think that alone says something about how digital art has impacted the aspect of beauty in our western culture.
      • This image comes from PAPERMAG more specifically a division of the magazine called pmNYC a guide to NYC nightlife and beyond.

truth.

• Encarta defines truth as “correspondence to fact or reality.”
  • I think the art by Ken Gonzales-Day is a great example of how “truth” can be alerted. We are presented with the truth in schools but images even centuries old can be easily misrepresented. The image could have been slightly alerted when originally printed or altered before being reprinted. Maybe only the colors of the images where enhanced or maybe someone insignificant was cropped out of the image or maybe a more significant change has taken place such as removing a key individual from the “scene of the crime”. I could come up with different circumstances all day long but the ultimate question is “are we presented with the true images in our history classes.
    • Once I’d typed in & searched images for truth this is the first picture I saw. It seems like a classical piece that might go with a biblical story. Upon further research this image depicts Christ & Pilate.
      • This piece is by Nikolai Ge titled What is Truth completed in 1890 it was attached to an article titled Society for the Study of Russian

individualism.

• Encarta defines individualism as “the pursuit of personal happiness and independence rather than collective goals or interests.”
  • Individualism is propelled by digital art. The simplest example that comes to mind is that you never have to have the same shirt as someone else. You can tweak it in the most basic way such as changing the color and then call it your own! On a larger scale digital art allows mistakes. Something can easily be deleted or undone with the click of a button whereas if it was a painting it would have to be gone over or just incorporated into the finished product.
    • This image reminds me of the pillars of character that the guidance counselors tried to brain wash us with in secondary school. I imagine a picture of individualism as a sea of the same style & color hair and a hot pink head with dread locks sticking out.

a taste of colorado.

I went to A Taste of Colorado today with some girls from school. It was fun! We started out by walking around the craft booths then decided we’d watch a concert. Love and Theft played on the main stage & the show was great!! Afterward we met the band & got pictures & signatures!!

There were tons of craft booths but none with spoon rings, which was what I was looking for. Instead I bought grilled corn on the cob {{Yum-O!}} and some chocolate ice cream.

assignment #1: digital quilt.

for this project i used a few different programs to create my digital “quilt”. i might have made it a bit too big! when i attempted to save it took FOREVER so i used command shift 4 and took a picture of it!

doing some more research i’ve found that my idea is far from crazy or even original (not that i ever imagined i was the only person to come up with the idea but). so i’ve found that many people are making digital quilts and even classes on digital quilting are available. the digital quilt is a web site advertising classes in f airfield, california & auburn, new york. the gallery on this site shows beautiful images of quilts that have been made by lura schwarz smith & kerby smith as well as their students.

similar to most other students in class i used Excel to position my images then saved it using the command key. i also used Celestia & a math application calculator.

home.

i’ve recently moved to colorado from iowa. here are some pictures of my new place & roomies. enjoy!

<p.s. these pictures were stolen from cassy!>

From L to R: Luc (Sarah's BF), Sarah Lock & I.

From L to R: Cassy Welzig & I.

our apartment is 2 blocks from campus (or about a 5 min. walk). we are 2 blocks from the 16th street mall. there are other things that make the inn super awesome to live at but I just thought I’d let you all know how life was going & what I’m doing.