Some Images in the Works...

Semester Goals...

In hopes of the immaculate coming together (the graduating seniors always talk about), this semester I plan on investigating images of mother and child and explaining the conceptual relationship between photography and memory. I will focus my first research paper on mother and child imagery, the taboos, attitudes about childhood, how other cultures deal with it, how it is depicted and discussed in art-historical and contemporary artists’ work. I will look further into the work and statements of Janine Antoni, Elinor Carucci, Mary Kelly, Sally Mann, Jenny Saville, Kathe Kollwitz, and Kiki Smith. Once I have a better understanding of that, I would like to look more deeply into the photographs connection to memory in my second research paper. I will research the writings of Susan Sontag (On Photography, Essay on Beauty), Jeffrey Batchen (Forget Me Not), Roland Barthes (Camera Lucida), and Lisa Saltzman (Making Memory Matter). All the while, I will continue to look into the histories of the paper cut out, encaustic medium, and oil paint. I will also think about the implications of feminism, narcissism, the archive, and the audience.  By June I hope to have fifteen to twenty objects that layer, break, and interrupt the photographs, text, silhouettes, outlines, and traces of figures. I hope the series will encompass a specific complexity of parenthood and surprise the viewer through the visceral erasure and collection of materials.

Picasso to Warhol - Traveling Exhibition

 

I took a group of my high school students to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta to see this exhibition.  It was awesome! Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror - What an image to be greeted by walking into the exhibition!! So vibrant, lovely texture.

Bearden's collages were extraordinary to see! This is not one of the ones we saw, but it is similar

Leger's Three Women - wow, to see in person - when viewing this exhibition I was thinking about my work - Leger's depiction of women in a mechanical age interests me

Matisse's paper cut-outs were also of interest - again this is not one of the exact images we saw, but similar

Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q

Johns' encaustic work was lovely, so vibrant and textural

What was the most interesting to see was the texture in Mondrian's 'flat' images. Wow.

We were also lucky enough to see the works of... Brancusi (Bird in Space, among others), de Chirco, Miro, Bourgeois, Pollock, Calder, and of course, Warhol.  In the contemporary art exhibition we saw Richter, Kiefer, and more.