9/13/2014-9/30/2014

(9/5/2014-9/12/2014)

This is a series of sketches I did this week. Done with Bic Cristal 1.6mm pen and graphite or charcoal and conte.

 

(Altered in Photoshop)

 

Guggle Gallery: Altered Universe

 Over the Summer, Lionel and I were presented an opportunity, in the form of a space to display work. Given that, we had to renovate the space and create a shows worth of work, we had quite a task before us. When the dust settled and the walls dried, we decked out the entire space with work from twelve artists (ourselves included) and dubbed it an Altered Universe. The show was a great adventure for everyone who submitted work and our attendees, with a live band and delicious food! 

 

 Ohh yeah..... and the cops came, so I think we did something right. (Turns out you need a special permit in Woodburn for live music)

For more info, check out this article written by the Woodburn Independent about the show:

http://www.pamplinmedia.com/wbi/152-news/229662-93174-artists-open-temporary-gallery-in-woodburn

Art Since March

 

This piece is titled Proof 1/1, a Richie Benson from May of 2014, it is a great example of how Richie and I collaborate: starting with graphite and working in a general concept of the piece by passing the paper between us, then having each of us take turns doing finishing steps (such as color, or line-work). This way the final piece is cohesive and stylish.

 

©limt, June 2014, another Richie Benson, This was our first collaborative painting of the summer, we wanted to use media such as aerosol paint and acrylic to make a debased version of one of our favorite paintings.

 

Parallel Planes, June 2014, This piece was an experiment I was trying out, how could I mimic a de-talced surface with my brush? Though not as successful in my opinion, it was a fun exercise in rhythm.

 

Gugville, USA, May 2014 

A Richie Benson, [In collaboration with LIENULL (Lionel Parra)], This piece was inspired by various surealist painters including the likes of: Dali, with his barren landscapes; Ernst, with his monsters and ghouls; and Escher, with his preoccupation with the skull.

 

This piece was done for my first painting assignment, Concrete Painting. Untitled 1, February 2014.

This was initiated by a crumpled piece of canvas I had laying around, I tacked it to the wall and saw the irregular ripples and  folds so clearly, I wanted to paint them, so I did.

 

Kokomo, May 2014 (In collaboration with Tessa Henry) This piece came fruition after Tessa and I were talking about what her work might look like on canvas, (She works primarily in Lino-cut and Etchings). After some time conversing, it was decided we should do a collaboration in which I did an under-painting and she would print her largest lino-cut on to it (un-stretched). This piece was recently raffled off at the Linfield Activities Fair to support the Art Club.

Choe Tapias, June 2014

Over this summer Lionel and I kept busy by assigning each other longer term projects to really focus on, the first was a hypothetical mash up between two artists, one more recent and one in the early modern school. This hypothetical collaboration, a combination of my own ideas, as well as references to David Choe and Antoni Tapias (assigned by Lionel), was a fun and interesting way to pique my interest in Spanish art from the mid 20th century as well as contemporary art in the Upper Playground school. He was assigned, and completed before me, a dynamic Robert Arneson - Egon Shiele collaboration.

 

This piece was the second Richie Benson collaboration this summer, June 2014, it is quite formidable at five and a half feet square, and seeks to engage the body in a quasi-phenomenological quasi-ambiguous manner. The ambiguous perimeters of the circles disorient the viewer and actively question their depth perception. One of  my favorites so far!

This piece is titled Torro Torro, June 2014. This was my second assignment over the summer, I tried to emulate one of Richie's favorite artists Jesse Reno. The piece took many different forms and what you are seeing now was the culmination of dozens of layers and two weeks of sessions.

This was one of my first sketches this summer and continues a conversation I've been having with form and line. This all started last January when I started drawing as fast as I could so that I wouldn't be consciously directing the work, then it would flip and I would rework the drawings very slowly and methodically, using the Autonomous drawing as a substrate from which I could build, or supplant my own ideas, notion, and inquiries.

This was the next in the series, Proofing paper applied over a Gessoed Hardboard panel, Gloss coated.

This is an example of tangent work from my line drawings. In these works I am trying to work with the medium to establish form ad hoc, in this case pastel. Pastel was my first medium and is still one of my favorite.