Body Extension Artists

Rebecca Horn is a great example of a body extension artist. We looked at multiple pieces of her work in class, and I was very fascinated with how she conducted these pieces. My favorite is the circle like structure shown below. I also really am interested on how it would feel to have your arms being as long as your body essentially.

Jessica Harrison, is an artist that makes projections of skin pieces. I don't know how to really describe them besides the fact that they are very strange. She has a series of pieces- furniture from a skin designed room that really are quite trippy. My favorite remains the chair, which has hair on the pillow. 

Marape is an artist most well known for his drum head, that when one person talks into one of end of it, it echoes in the wearers head. I would really like to know how this feels, the heaviness of the piece itself as well as the sounds. 

Bart Hess is cool artist. I find his work very interesting. He made a costume for Lady Gaga a couple years ago, that got a lot of attention and further more noticed by others. A lot of his works are in collaborations with other artists. My favorite of his projects are a series under the words of "slimeing". I just think they would be so strange and fun to touch. 

LucyandBart is a collaboration of artists between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess. They work a lot with fashion, body, and architecture. Both enjoy body manipulation and focusing on different materials. My favorite is the bubble body, the colors are absolutely astounding. 

Everyday Object Artists

Javier Perez is an artist that turns everyday small objects into sketches or illustrations. I think something that makes him different than the other everyday artists is that with every object he uses, he makes the pieces interesting because he sketches on backgrounds of things that really make sense. These are just two images of the many of illustrations he has done.

Sakir Gokceberg is a Turkish artist that has turned fruit into everyday larger pieces of art. Other materials such as boots, toilet paper and other everyday objects have been used. His pieces are notorious for the intense angles and curves. 

Kevin Van Aeist is different from the two above artists because he takes objects that don't seem as wanted objects. He uses materials such as trash to make bigger installation pieces. I am very fond of the masking tape piece he has made, it is simple but really fascinating. 

Giuseppe Colarusso is an artist that uses everyday objects and makes them completely useless and un functional. I think what he does it quite funny, even though there are only a couple images below, I spent some time laughing at the screen looking at all of his other pieces. My favorite happen to be the two below. What is the point of a ping pong bat when the ball would simply go straight through? As well as the classic game everyone has played before, you can see right through the cups making it completely pointless. 

Gilbert Legrand is an artist that transfers little paintings onto everyday objects making them very quirky and different. Most of what he paints on I can't imagine doing that. I know quite a few people who would be pleased with owning a couple of his corkscrews. 

Jana Sterbak Article Response

In this article written by Jennifer McLerran about Disciplined Subjects and Docile Bodies in the work of Contemporary Artist Jana Sterbak, we look father into her work. Memento more definition reminds us of our own inevitable death and decay. A lot of Sterbaks pieces often require interaction by viewers, causing them to turn from passive reception to active production (537). Her most popular work remains the sculpture, Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic. She explores this concept by using meat that literally is decaying and ever changing in the exhibit. She works with extreme notions of the feminine ideal by "the ways in which feminine subjectivity is constructed in and through the multiple discourses on the body that operate in contemporary culture" (537). She evokes fashion as one of the disciplinary forces that produce norms to which women constrain themselves to conform. Her meat dress is opposite of the usual uses of youth, slimness, and vibrant good health, Sterbak rather uses aging, death and decay, to go against the norm. Other examples that demonstrate how Sterbak has employed distinctive materials would be Remote Control I and Remote Control II. These pieces stand for the norm of feminine beauty in 1856, basically making the women very rigid and uncomfortable. She creates cages of sorts that make the women unable to physically move themselves, and are controlled by another person. The final example I will use is the Seduction Couch, a couch made of perforated metal, showing that the wielding power of seduction controls both the attraction and repulsion of the one being seduced.

Art Exhibit (3/3)- 3/1/15

On Friday the 27^th, I attended the art exhibition featuring my own teacher Eric Mullis, as well as Kelly Cox and Rachel Lambert in the Hemingway building.  This was their MFA Thesis Exhibition. Eric’s work was very interesting, huge wooden planes cut out and featured live standing people inside of them. Kelly made massive pelicans out of clay set on top of TVs and Rachel made very made different creatures out of peculiar materials. This exhibit happened to be my favorite out of the two others I have attended, maybe it is because Eric is my teacher, or because I have seen Rachel and Eric frantically working on this. A lot of people attended the opening, and were just as amazed at the gallery work as I was. After this, it made me want to explore all types of art, not just photography and ceramics, I want to do it all. And maybe one day I will get my masters.