After watching 60 minutes’ worth of Art21 videos, I walked away with a few gained insights and ideas. This time around, I focused on watching videos of artists who used 3D sculpture as their form of expression and excluded performative pieces. One very intriguing concept I appreciated learning about was the idea that the past is only remembered through the 5 senses that we used to experience it and that to accurately represent it we must accurately represent these 5 senses. I also really appreciated the desire to produce pieces that do not scream a specific interpretation right away but rather slow down the interpretation response and allow anyone to take away important topics from the work. Finally, I want to touch on a more physical technique that was brought to my attention that I would like to incorporate into my work technique which is the act of splitting workpieces systematically into simple geometric shapes and focusing on these regions one at a time.
Archives for April 2022
Luong Vu, Project 3: Part 3 + Part 4
Part 3: Choose a strategy
I want to create a human face’s sculpture with some hyperreal aesthetic features like the clay works of Johnson Tang.
Part 4: Sketches
Luong Vu, artsXpose #4
Title of Event: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew lecture for Bucknell’s 2022 Ekard Artist-in-Residence
Date & Time of Event: 5:30pm, April 5
Location of Event: HOLMES HALL 116 Hislop Family Auditorium
Type of event: Artist lecture
Art21 Contemporary Sculpture Assignment, Luong Vu
As I watched the interviews of different contemporary artists on Art21, I was inspired by Jes Fan’s idea of challenging the beauty standard through his sculpture work. His sculptures question the thin line between aesthetics and grotesque as he incorporates biological materials like piss and blood into his glass, silicon, and resin mixture. Through his work, he wants to challenge the common perception of beauty set for race and gender and how it is associated with suspension. I’m interested in how he uses science to create art, exploring different substances to construct his own idea of beauty. I also feel related to the idea of suppression and rebellion in his work and how he wants to address the unrealistic beauty standard.
I’m also drawn by Doreen Garner’s idea of sculpting traumatic experiences, which are mostly related to the body. She wants to demonstrate how the failure of one organ can cause the whole body to fall, as was her sister’s experience. I find her process of creating human organs and body parts from mold-making techniques and mixed media very interesting to learn from. Her works look so real and vivid that it helps to create a haunting impression of traumas. Through her work, she also wants to voice the race issue and use it as a way to address the brutal acts made against Black women.
Michael Duncan Final Project: Borrow a Strategy
I intend to borrow the use of holes and sheltering to express vulnerability within my work.
Luong Vu, Project 3: Part 1 + 2
One concern that has always existed in my mind is the balance between art and science in life.
As I grow up in a typical Asian family, academic pursuit is a very important subject for family discussion. This kind of discussion never ends in peace though as the career path I map out does not live up to my family’s expectations. While my parents and my sister all excel at science subjects, I’m more interested in art, something considered an unrealistic academic and career goal, especially by many Asian parents. Even in the Vietnamese community at Bucknell, I am surrounded by STEM major students, which sometimes gives me peer pressure. However, that fact does not discourage me from pursuing my interest but rather evokes my curiosity about the differences in the perspectives of a STEM major and an art major. I believe that the subjects we are learning have a great impact on our personalities and how we see the world.
Still, I believe that both art and science are crucial for human creativity, and at a certain point, they intersect. A good balance of art and science is also an expression of a nuanced mind which can view the world in different layers and colors. This final project will be another reflection of my identity as I try to find the middle point between the two important aspects of my world.
10 tangible people/places/things: 1. My Vietnamese friends at Bucknell 2. My parents 3. Me 4. Science symbol 5. Paint 6. Butterfly 7. School 8. Mask 9. Eyes 10. Portrait
Angela Meckley- Project 3-Parts 1 & 2
- Topic
- The ocean/animals
- Discovering the unknown
- Animals in art
- Imagination/dreams/fantasy
- Natural disasters (storms/sun/stars/conflict)
- Metamorphosis (change/life cycles)
- Consider and clarify your topic
For this project I am interested in a few different topics (natural disasters, metamorphosis or change, ocean animals, the unknown, and imagination). All of these have been areas of interest for me, and I think I could somehow bring them all together into a collective sculpture or idea. I have always felt a deep connection with animals and nature. The ocean is a place of total unknown. We have only discovered a small percentage of the ocean and the things that live in it. Its intriguing to me to think about what is in there and what kind of change happens there. Change is something that I find interesting and challenging because everyone deals with change, and without it there is not growth. Going along with that, the unknown is linked because there is a lot of unknown things that happen during any sort of change or circumstance. There are a lot of things in life that are uncertain and are a result of change, which is not always positive or negative. Things like natural disasters etc. could be a good thing, but because of the unknown they are often though of negatively. With all of these ideas I have a point of departure for my sculpture that relates to something though provoking about the unknown.
- Rain 2.) storms 3.) dreams 4.) future 5.) animals 6.) creatures 7.) stars 8.) space 9.) time 10.) fantasy
Project 3 Part 1 and 2- Haley Griffin
For my question/problem I chose the paradoxical quote “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. I chose this quote because it is saying the only thing that holds us back in life is our fear. This hesitation and retaliation can keep us from achieving great things. I think that this is not only inspirational in its historical context but something to take into consideration in life in general. Contextually, this was said by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the start of his presidency regarding the great depression and moving forward as a society. One person that this can relate to is yours;f. If you’re holding yourself back because of your fears then you could potentially miss out on something and never reach your full potential. One other thing this can relate to is anxiety. This is a heightened iteration of the previous idea. A third thing could be a place you associate yourself with fear (such as a high school, or a location that was previously associated with feelings of fear and anguish). More conceptual objects/things are small spaces (feelings of confinement), mirrors (confrontation to fear and how it can hold one back), portrait (source of the fear), brain (more literal source of the fear), something scary (monster/demon), other people (fear of someone), facial expressions (to show fear itself).
Project 3 – Jingyi Zhou
The question/problem I’ll explore is human relationships.
I ask myself these questions frequently: What defines a relationship? What promotes a relationship? What undermines a relationship? Am I doing this right with xxx?
Often times, I find myself being either too nice or too mean on other people. It’s so hard to find a balance in between those two conditions. It’s also hard for me to being very open to someone, like starting a new friendship/romantic relationship.
Human interaction is so confusing yet fascinating. You can hate or like a person in seconds, based on something they say or do. Sometimes you try too hard to maintain a relationship. But in the end, both parties are exhausted. So, what would be a healthy and sustainable mode of human relationship?
10 tangible people/places/things
postcards/letters/texting screenshots
school/office/home
friend/lover/enemy/stranger/boss/professor
Project 3 topic
My question is a question is one I struggle with every day: “when we all fall asleep where do we go?”
I chose this not only to keep with my theme of death, but because it really is something that runs my mind and something I feel I can put my all into because it is something I feel like I need an artistic outlet for. Since the second we were given our sneak peak on this project I knew I wanted to do this question and I already had a vision in my brain for what I wanted to make. I think this has a dual meaning- it can be literal or metaphorical. It can be literal in the sense of when we fall asleep at night what happens to our minds? Why we sleep and dream and where dreams come from are topics that scientists are still struggling with. I have extremely vivid dreams that feel so real that sometimes I don’t know whether or not it was real. It is so fascinating that our brain plays mind games with itself and cannot even distinguish if the things it created are real or not. It can also be metaphorical in the sense of death- what happens to us after death is a question humans have tried to answer since the beginning of our existence. Almost or every single culture on earth has an explanation for what happens to us when we pass on and leave this earth. What does it feel like, is there heaven or afterlife, does it hurt? I have an irrational fear of death and I think having my art centered around it is my way of coping and facing it and somehow creating my own explanation that is comforting to me. I would say 10 things: bed, tombstone, heaven, hell, ghost, pain, ground, screams, dreams, and darkness.
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