Next Week's Assignment

We are going to work off of this object, a spring. The assignment is motivated by the spirit of the Bauhaus school. The idea is that each of us will create a response to this object, not simply a copy or drawing of it.
My immediate response is this:



Maddy wants to work off of a photograph taken like this:

Maddy's Wall

Here is Maddy's wall from one of the classes in October. Comments, anyone?

Dan's Assemblage Walls

Often the work that we create in the studio when we are screwing around turns out alright. Here are a couple of "Walls" that I did in the past few weeks. dan-e-art website.

Halloween assemblage

In the great tradition of creating Halloween jack-o-lanterns, I have applied the assemblage techniques to this year's pumpkins. My son Nicolas was very involved - his was the black pumpkin. That got me thinking about using paint on the pumpkins in addition to carving them. I'll let you decide for yourself on the results.

Stop Your Engines! The Artist Is Tracing

From the NYTimes:

The Indianapolis Museum of Art

Ingrid Calame has made artworks like the one above by tracing skid marks at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

By DOROTHY SPEARS
Published: October 28, 2007
WHEN the Los Angeles artist Ingrid Calame wanted to trace the skid marks on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the track’s manager was skeptical. “The request was pretty unusual,” said the manager, Dan Edwards, who in his eight years at the speedway has provided special access to people testing tires, engines and racecars.

The Indianapolis Museum of Art
Ingrid Calame.

Then he researched Ms. Calame’s boldly colored compositions, derived from stains and graffiti that she traces from city streets and sidewalks. And he realized that the racetrack “was like a canvas,” he said in a phone interview. “There were stories that went with every tire mark, every gouge.”

full article at NYTimes