Month: April 2022

    I looked at 3 different artists: Marela Zacarías, Aki Sasamoto, and Doreen Garner. These three female artists have a very different and very broad range of expression in their work. Zacarías’s work was associated in the artist’s mind with her own personal pregnancy and the work I watched a video about is dedicated to… Continue reading Danielle Porter–Art21 Assignment #2

Part 1: Choose a Topic I have decided to focus this project around community ecology. Part 2: Consider and clarify your topic For this project, I am looking to address the complexities of community ecology through the lens of one species. I chose this topic because it is currently what I have been studying in… Continue reading Project 3 Research – Reilly Babcock

Part 3: Strategy Beth Cavener, “Obariyon”, 2013, https://followtheblackrabbit.com/gallery/obariyon-2/#toggle-id-1 Beth Cavener is an artist I really like, and for this project I’d like to emulate the way she has incorporated a different material as part of the animal, which gives the work (which is based in Japanese myth and other aspects of culture) a magical and… Continue reading Danielle Porter–Project 3 Research Parts 3 & 4

For my borrowed strategy, I utilized a piece from Anthony James’s Portal Icosahedrons series. I intend to borrow the use of a geometric form, the intention towards the “infinite”, as well as the use of mirrors. Anthony James, Portal Icosahedrons, 2011.

For this assignment, I watched videos on Theaster Gates, Daniel Gordon and his wife Ruby Sky Stiler, and performance artist Liz Magic Laser. I began with Gates because I have seen several of his works in person in particular, his work that features a collection of albums that was recently shown during the Social Works… Continue reading Art 21 Assignment

After watching an hour of interviews with a variety of artists, there were some big themes and points that stood out to me. The main artists that I watched this time around were Pedro Reyes, Mika Rottenberg, and Robert Ryman. All three of these artists have a unique way of approaching sculpture, but utilizing unique… Continue reading Art21 Contemporary Sculpture Assignment #2

I intend to somehow use the infinity symbol within my work, possibly in a three-dimensional aspect like this massive work by Gordon Huether.