Title of Event: Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Date & Time of Event: Saturday, April 22, 4 pm
Location of Event: Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Type of event: Exhibition Viewing
Cory Sanderson-Sketches
Cory Sanderson-Art21
I chose to only watch female artists because art has been a male-dominated field. The first artist I watched was Diana Al-Hadid and it was really interesting to me how the video was narrated by a story that inspired her work. She talked about how much she loved stories but says: “There’s a part of me that kind of resists that kind of specificity.” That really stood out to me because I felt like it was key to her method of creating art. In other videos I watched I noted a connection between the artist and the material. Sculpture is a very physically connecting type of art. Though you create physical works in painting and drawing and printmaking, sculpture is the only one where you have such a deep connection to the piece. Since it is three-dimensional you’re really in touch with the materials therefore the final work.
artsXpose #3 – Ben Kaller, Cory Sanderson, Evelyn Pierce
Cory Sanderson: ArtsXpose #2
Cory Sanderson: ArtXpose #1
AI Research – Cory Sanderson
Talisman Research Cory Sanderson
- Healthy lifestyle and growth
- I think that to live your best life you need to be open to changing who you are. You can also always learn more about yourself and how to live a healthier life. A big obstacle is realizing what things in your life aren’t good for you. It is even more difficult to change those things and it takes a lot of work. Taking the steps to correct the problem and sticking to it is a difficult thing to do. You may recognize the issue, but changing your lifestyle is a huge thing to do and it changes your identity a lot. Recognizing is difficult enough, employing change even more so, and sticking to the change is the hardest. I want to highlight change and growth. My entire life my parents have talked to my siblings and me about this with the physical form of a butterfly. There is at least one butterfly in every room of our house. What my parents believe a butterfly represents is new life. The change from caterpillar to butterfly expresses that the butterfly knows truths that the caterpillar cannot even imagine. The butterfly would represent my future self who has further grown and lives a healthy lifestyle. I think it would be interesting if only one of the wings of the butterfly was really developed with the other one plain to show that there is always more room to grow even when you have grown a lot.
- Growth
- Stability
- Change
- Different
- Knowing
- Learning
- Metamorphosis
- More
- Incomplete
- Healthy
“Glass Heart” Cory Sanderson
I chose a glass container in the shape of a heart. My middle name is Corazón so I have always had a strong connection to hearts. I won’t delve into why my parents named me that, but there was an immense amount of purpose in naming me that and there is a lot of meaning behind my name. Others probably view it as just a heart. In our society, hearts represent love and all the deep and raw emotions that are part of the human experience. As it is a glass heart that can be opened, a few metaphors came to mind. Having a “glass heart” is when you are easily heartbroken, with it being see-through I thought of “wearing your heart on your sleeve”, and the fact that it can be opened could symbolize the difficult act of allowing someone into your heart. I would somehow like to combine the meanings I listed above into one presentation. I think exploring a “glass heart” could be very interesting. I could break some of the multiples and somehow show the “consequences” that come with “wearing your heart on your sleeve” and pain that comes with it.
The Human Experience, Cory Sanderson
Cory Sanderson, Migration in Four Parts
Dustin Yellin, Migration in Four Parts
When I was looking through Yellin’s website and I clicked on the link for this piece, I audibly gasped and knew immediately that my report had to be on it. It is shockingly beautiful and you can tell at first glance that is has to be so full of meaning. The color is remarkable and the light accentuates every detail. All the blue creates an ethereal look and the contrast of all the colors further pushes its beauty. It reminds me of the sea, while also being otherworldly, a better way to depict the world we actually live in.
There is one image created by these boxes, each box flows into the next. The backdrop is a pale blue and the inside of the glass has a highly saturated image. The dominant color is teal with smaller portions of the image including reds and yellows. The image itself is created out of small realistic cutouts of various types of people from various eras traveling in some way. It depicts many forms of transportation, and many types of people, but all so small that you have to look at a closeup to tell.
Migration in Four Parts is composed of glass, collage, acrylic, resin, and steel. The use of resin allows for the collage work to maintain it’s form and the acrylic brings out the color of the things Yellin chose to use in the collage. The glass and steel are critical for the presentation. The glass encapsulates the collage and the steel brings the work much higher up without actually making the piece bigger. By this I mean that there is not more collage, which could potentially look hectic or messy, but it gives the work a bigger presence and more importance. Though glass and steel may not first appear as important because the collage and acrylic are what create the extravagant and complicated image, if they were not there, the difference in the energy and presence the piece would emit is shockingly substantial.
The work relates to the world at large because it is the world at large. Yellin uses moments all across time and shoves them all into one piece. A starving boy holding wood can be seen next to Greek buildings and someone cliff jumping. He created an equality between history. He literally made a collage of human existence and the human experience. Every moment is overlapping and nothing is deemed more important because it is all so scattered. Perhaps he was speaking on the history of discrimination or the unfairness of third world countries still existing while other countries have moved on to much more materialistic ways of life.
This work tells a history of travel and life. There was no discrimination in choosing the people or time period featured in it. There are people of all races, countries, social classes, and eras. The same lack of discrimination was given to the objects included. From primitive wood to cars, bridges, huts, trees, birds, camels, even famous pieces of architecture, everything is included. Yellin’s work is a celebration of life in a way. He took from every moment in history from all across the world and he put it all together in resin to forever maintain it’s beauty and color.