Monday, February 28, 2011
Gauguin Remix
The assignment: reworking the composition and structure of a master painting while still maintaining the overall color balance and feel. I chose Gauguin's Femme portant un fruit because of it's rich array of colors and composition. The first is the exercise that I found the most successful—the one below was my first attempt.
The Masterpiece.
The Winner.
The Runner Up.
Friday, February 25, 2011
Nick Kleist
These are all (so dark! and dulled!!!) from an opening that I went to last weekend at the Mark Weiss Gallery on 520 w24th. The gallery exhibited open paintings all week by Herman Nitsch and his team. The show is amaizng and demonstrates color in an amazing way!
Also my gallery, the Jenkins Johnson Gallery on 521 w26th st, has an opening on March 10th where we are exhibiting an artist that deals with issues of color, race and identity through mixed media works. He uses brown paper bags, alluding to the "paper bags tests," and contrasts this with pastels and melted and crafted faces. Hearing the artist, Nathaniel Donnett, speak about this reminded me of our skin tone painting session, check it out!
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Painter: Justin Terry
This artist uses an interesting technique to manipulate color. Notice how there are several layers of spectral color, but many of paintings appear to be neutral or chromatic gray.....
Interactive food color mixer
Do you want to eat teal cake? This interface will show you the correct food coloring proportion to make it happen.
Food and the color blue
Here are two very interesting articles about food and the color blue. Is blue an appetizing color for you? Why?
BBC: Food and the Colour Blue
Chemical & Engineering: Food Coloring
BBC: Food and the Colour Blue
Chemical & Engineering: Food Coloring
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The Yellow Glasses
I put on the yellow glasses and have been "under" for a day....at first I just noticed cool thing- at night all is normal (because we don't see color (perceived by our cones) at night only gray (our rods) but the car lights are like TOPAZ's- brilliant!!! Ok, yes I have a headache and I am feeling as if space is closing in on me, BUT....when I went to bed and closed my eyes....guess what....I see a field of Red Violet that permeates my whole brain and I FLOAT! It is SO weird....I guess my brain is used to seeing normal, not YELLOW color, so when I shut the yellow off I go into another unfamiliar color world and so FEEL a different world!!
PS: I can't see any highlighting on the computer screen and when my apple opens the screen is a WILDLY bizarre ACID GREEN SEA!!!
Be well T
I wonder if someone couldn't wear a violet or other color than yellow, so we can compare other experiences? I have gels you can tape to lenses, but you have to be freak!! Please apply with glasses next week!
SHOW performance FREE!!!
Dadarhea
February 25- March 20, 2011
Opening reception Friday, February 25, 6-8pm
CANADA invites you to wig-out during a month long residency of Dadarhea.
What began as a summer workshop for video ideas to manifest has now become an unruly feature-length film formed of individuals collaborating in abandon. All participants have been swirling around and bumping into each other for at least 10 years and the collective sensibilities are broad yet unified in a pact to explore, laugh, splat, maximize, question, flap, drop, trough, dangle and generally go too far in the name of curiosity without actually killing a cat. You the viewer are the beneficiary of all this and more. In conjunction with the video there will be a group show presenting the work of Dadarheans.
Dadarheans include: Devin Flynn, Jim Drain, Francine Spiegel, Taylor McKimens, Takeshi Murata, Ara Peterson, Leif Goldberg, Jessie Gold, Bec Stupak, Neil Fazzari, Naomi Fisher, Melissa Brown, Erin Krause, Laura Grant, Brian Belott, Johnny Woods, Rich Porter, Billy Grant, Alison Kuo, Alvaro Ilizarbe, Jen Stark, Ross Goldstein, Trish Riefert, Debbie Tuch, Sam Borkson, Bert Rodriguez, Jeffery Williams, Michael Williams, Marie Lorenz, Annie Pearlman, Seth Cooper, Owen Osborne, Chris Kucinski, and Joe Grillo.
This is the second incarnation of Dadarhea which originally began in Miami at OHWOW gallery. The opening night will feature a screening of Dadarhea and a special live performance by Robert Beatty (of Hair Police and Three Legged Race) to accompany a video mix by Devin Flynn and Takeshi Murata. Throughout the month, Dadarheans will invite you to participate in a variety of workshops, events and musical performances. In celebration of this premiere and residency, CANADA has printed a special book complete with a DVD of the film!
CANADA is located at 55 Chrystie Street between Hester and Canal Streets in New York City. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 to 6 p.m. For more information, please contact the gallery at 212-925-4631.
February 25- March 20, 2011
Opening reception Friday, February 25, 6-8pm
CANADA invites you to wig-out during a month long residency of Dadarhea.
What began as a summer workshop for video ideas to manifest has now become an unruly feature-length film formed of individuals collaborating in abandon. All participants have been swirling around and bumping into each other for at least 10 years and the collective sensibilities are broad yet unified in a pact to explore, laugh, splat, maximize, question, flap, drop, trough, dangle and generally go too far in the name of curiosity without actually killing a cat. You the viewer are the beneficiary of all this and more. In conjunction with the video there will be a group show presenting the work of Dadarheans.
Dadarheans include: Devin Flynn, Jim Drain, Francine Spiegel, Taylor McKimens, Takeshi Murata, Ara Peterson, Leif Goldberg, Jessie Gold, Bec Stupak, Neil Fazzari, Naomi Fisher, Melissa Brown, Erin Krause, Laura Grant, Brian Belott, Johnny Woods, Rich Porter, Billy Grant, Alison Kuo, Alvaro Ilizarbe, Jen Stark, Ross Goldstein, Trish Riefert, Debbie Tuch, Sam Borkson, Bert Rodriguez, Jeffery Williams, Michael Williams, Marie Lorenz, Annie Pearlman, Seth Cooper, Owen Osborne, Chris Kucinski, and Joe Grillo.
This is the second incarnation of Dadarhea which originally began in Miami at OHWOW gallery. The opening night will feature a screening of Dadarhea and a special live performance by Robert Beatty (of Hair Police and Three Legged Race) to accompany a video mix by Devin Flynn and Takeshi Murata. Throughout the month, Dadarheans will invite you to participate in a variety of workshops, events and musical performances. In celebration of this premiere and residency, CANADA has printed a special book complete with a DVD of the film!
CANADA is located at 55 Chrystie Street between Hester and Canal Streets in New York City. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12 to 6 p.m. For more information, please contact the gallery at 212-925-4631.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Homework due 3/1/11
Here is the homework due on March 1:
1. Color inventory of the master image you chose.
2. Compositional thumbnails and presentation for Zine idea. Consider the following things:
- What questions do you want to answer? who are you talking to? What is your ultimate goal?
- Bring focus to the substance rather than the methodology or technique
- Avoid distorting data- maintain truth
- Encourage the viewer to compare differences (guide the viewers eye using color placement and design solutions)
- Simplify your idea so that it serves a reasonably clear purpose.
- Organize your information to SAY something
- Data Maps- we know these well- don’t take too much for granted. What you include is as important as what you exclude- consider context. (Remember the cancer maps in class.)
3. You will give a brief talk about the article you read.
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