"the fair"

fair...

the quote- "so our success freaks some people out. We've played it the way we wanted. Thats why we are doing so well for our artists. We belive in them and we work like motherfuckers"

my responce - this is so fucking insperational i dont know what else to say... you have to hustle. you have people that depend on you, you have to strive for it and want it like nothing else.

the quote- "gladstone protests, with a laugh. "My taste in art comes out of conceptualism. I know that! Even when I like paintings, they're conceptual paintings. I like artists who have an individual vision, and I want each artist to be seen on his or her own."

my responce - i think this really just keeps being the major factor in everything that happends... concept, and individual mission. what if others keep saying the same thing with such passion over a work and the same ideas fire throught. its actually much deeper when your hearing 1 on 1 commentes. i feel like im obligated to not go out "trick or treating" this weekend, seriously. well maybe one night.

the quote - " lately the globalization of the art world has accelerated. and art fairs have been good for our business."

my responce - well i like the way that sounds, my favorite thing was being able to show the world something universal. Ya know, art that responds to human beings alike, not just a particual nitch. isnt that just incomprehendable.

the quote - " the worst collections are scrambled, disjointed, and fickle. The best have "a driving forice."

my responce- well umm... concepft. i had a even crit last week...not enough work... we talked for a while about ideas concept whats what and this is that. it was hectic with the 2 awesome profs but a bit nerve racking, really things are crazy i know the feeling shit just flys by... i thought this class was next week well what the fuck....anyway yeah we talked about concept and it was cool left me with ideas and some ideas to explore and ride out. time to do it isnt it. cant wait to have 3 classes next semeseter if shit works out

the quote - " you cant use money as an idex of quality. That is a fallacy. that will drive you crazy!"

my responce - haha isnt that how the world works, people just go for the expensive prices to look like they are someone or something, haha y do we sell art if its so personal. I have seen the chelsea scene and they busted out a price book, ba that shit is like payin for a yankee, its sooooo america so we love it. go yanks mmm yea! haha does beegan get angry when he reads this and never sees any capital letters until the 3 sentence's capital letter, haha and the fact that i didnt highlight the first quotation mark.... haha is that bad typography haha.

the quote - " ...its chaotic, bewildering. the amount of art in the world is a bit depressing. the worst of it looks like art, but its not. it is stuff cynically made for a certian kind of collector." and he goes on talking about how money dosnt influnce him and the rest says ahh yaaa... concept concept in a public venue

my responce - did we need 5 or 6? is that it...ok anyway. wow concept. anyway

grad schools

i havnt considered it yet, i was kinda waiting for that career servies thing to come around and was defintally gonna travel europe and south america before i even consider blowing all my money on anther round of artschool

Rutgers university MFA program, for its program, location, teachers, and teaching

Savannah School of art and design, for its location

Otis College of Art and Design (LA), its degree of personal vision

Rhode Island School of Art, ODV CUASE ITS THE FUCKING #1

Univeristy of CALI, for its awesome #7 ranked program and its location location

Columbia Unversity, for its ranking, location

also looked at georgian court college for a 2 year Masters in TEACHING DEGREE is the only one i really went to visit... isnt that sad

my exhibit of choice...

this week i went back to the james ensor show that i saw once before...

the show was just a multitude of work at the moma. the reason it suck with me is for its deveristy in drawing and painting. i found his works are so interesting in his work of figures and faces and their distortion into a frightingly obsucre view of people. i found that all of his works were very articulated and based on a specific demsions of work. this has really been haunting me as of late, being a multi media artist, cutting the fat and deciding where i want to go. His view concerning people is to depict the nature of them, i was heading in this direction but not any longer, the idea of social and figural abstraction depicting a specific view is played out into so much work now.

there were a few specific images like the drunkards that really just seemed to catch my eye. the drunkards was a scene that emphisized social aspects of his life, being a massive bar fight and house party. the depiction was funny and compellingly detailed. i enjoyed his sence of goya. another was a mass of people that were fighting and skulls and heads. his sence of death was kinda scary and odvious. my favorite as a whole was his abstraction and busy quality.

sooooo busy post will come tommrow

to whom it may concern....

these past 2 weeks have been hecktic with 2 exams last week and one tommrow and 2 crits with hanna and julie that happend today... i will not be posting the homework till tommrow but it will get done... everything has been good, my exams last week got a's and hanna and julie did alot to help me into a multitude of work. gotta study post tommrow sorry.

whops, last weeks gallery visit

tonight i went to chelsea and the Whitney.

nothing in chelsea that we saw was really really note worthy, somethings i already saw and then others were somewhat not my style, and i didnt think they were that great, alot of minimalist ideas, i forgot my list from julie and hannalina so that will be next weeks post....

anyway, at the whitney, we saw georgia O'Keeffe. i really enjoyed the use of her colors, they were so extreme but created sutch depth and dynamic abstraction. there were a ton of paintings and only some of them really cought my eye, its really unbeliveable how many things you can look over becasue one painting is so striking. it was very crowed, a friday night when you way whatever for enterence, it was just hard to stay in one spot and really enjoy a painting but there were times where one would really hold your eye and you could see the different hues, tones, saturation, and balance. it was almost musical the way they flowed together so well but the way it bounced back and forth. her flower paitings i thought were incrediable, i just really enjoyed her use of color. but more the abstract landscapes really held me in place, i just throughly enjoyed staring into these feilds of color and abstration. the landscape ones made less sence to me, but i enjoyed them more becuase i didnt already have a preexisting veiw of "flowers"

anyways i would really like to see what the painting class list has in store...

Chapter 6, the Studio visit

the studio visit was to marakami's studio workshop in japan

1. The status of creativity is much lower here, the art market is weak

its strange to think that someone so huge here isnt as big in his home country

2. What is the dealers role in the studio? ... Dealers are editors and conspirators. We help determine what gets shown and how it gets shown, and we help put art in production. At the end of the day, our business is to sell symptoms articulated as objects.

i like the idea that the artist donst have to think completly about what hes doing everytime in the long run certin peice will stand out, its about making things over lingering on one concept

3. I'm thinking alot about how to connect with people who are under 30 in japan. I have to cumminicate with a video game feeling- marakami

he has his target market, where do we come up with this, am i to write about things like this?

4. This peice had the grudge of those sculptors" marakami he talks about how rigerious his plan is, how they make small sketches of it,

this kind of thing remined me of chully the glass blower that he really dosnt do his own stuff, but its his design, we talked about designers not really being artists, and also talking about how everyone contradicts everyone.

5. MarakamiIs talks about his workfor louis vuitton his "Honest and completly canny relationship to commercial culture industries" says its "My urinal"

he makes millions on his shitter? is this for real? hahaha i find that crazy, but they also talked about how imprortant his branding ideas and way to connect with the millions of people, i bet no one who buys that really knows what he says about it... crazy

Chapter 2, "the Crit"

this has been the first time ive read this book, since i got it yesterday afternoon via FedEX. it has been more than insightfull, ive read all the previous chapters, but these are some of the most interisting points that ive stumbled across.

1. talking about the staff and educating the wrist down & and wrist up(the intullectual side) one cal arts faculty says, "we all contradict each other, but the prevailing beilief is that any artist whose work fails to display some conceptual rigor is little more than a pretender, illustrator, or designer"

This was particually inportant to me because i feel that ive just really stated to venture into finding deeper meaning and deeper thought into my work. instead of doing tons of work, ive just been pondering, thinking and putting things together in my mind that dont make any sence. and its almost daily that people contridict eachother, one see onething the other sees the oppisete, what do you run off ov.

2. "Creative is definitely a dirty word...it's almost as embarrassing as beautiful or sublime or masterpiece."

I don't really think that words truly can describe a picture and to place them into categories is a matter of context.

3. when describing a group cirt, "They are social occasions that reinforce the norm. they impose a standardized discourse. they privilege unfinished, incompetent ar. if your not sick, dont call the doc." further..."I dont care about an artist's intentions. i care if the work looks like it might have some consequences." Dave Hickey

This statement was even more impacting today when we had a crit, talking about everyones artworks. you know if your art is ready to be presented into a group or gallery, to sit thought things is kinda reductive, talking with other artists in non formal situations is more realizing. ive only been to one single group cirt about a large body of painting that was done self directed, i got nothing more out of it than i already knew about my painting. you know your art, its there to make an impact(consequences)

4."Talent is a double-edged sword. What you are given is not really yours. What you work at, what you struggle for, what you have to take command of-- that often makes for very good art."

insperiating is the one side? and what you take from everything and what you find passion in is a merge of talent. everything has more meaning when its done with passion and insperation, and to find restarint and clairty, thats where you really take command.

5. A crit this long....

i mean after a while it must open up to some pretty wild shit, something there in the begining was nothing but then has a powerful balance after taking it in for so long. i think a crit this long would really actually give me some more passion and open up for some serious discussion, given that it was a body of work that was truly thought out and done rite.

These are some more of my paintings from last year. Also there are two drawings from figure drawing class. I also still have been doing ceramics, this is from a raku firing we did at the end of september.