April 5, 2011
Painting or Installation?
When researching for my Thesis show (Dec 4-10 mark your calendars!) I came across artist Alexa Meade, a young up-and-coming artist from DC. Her work first looks like interesting paintings of somber interiors with a figure, but I read on to realize they are actually people and furniture she has painted on. Questioning the boundaries between the 2-D and the 3-D is always a question for me, but this approach really addresses it "hands on." (No pun intended). The paintings create a mood and intrigue as 2D photos- but take on a different psychological role as installations and with the understanding of life beneath the paint. Found via albus cavus blog. See more at alexameade.com.
March 11, 2011
March 1, 2011
sketches
Sketches I've been working on in preparation for a larger painting.
Vuillard/Bonnard patterning as inspiration.
February 10, 2011
January 27, 2011
Apollonian vs. Dionysian
I struggle to find my way between the German and French in my work. I'm German by heritage, but I strive to be French as well. My professor, David, tells me this is me fighting between my Apollonian and Dionysian sides. This idea comes from Nietzsche in his work The Birth of Tragedy. Nietzsche describes the Apollonian as "logical inference," and the Dionysian as "certainty of intuition." When the two work together there is a "powerful birth." My German side seems to be the Apollonian nature, whereas the French I try to bring out is more of the Dionysian. To explain it with more visual sources, take the Beckmann painting on the left (German, Apollonian) vs. the Bonnard painting on the right (French, Dionysian). These are what I am constantly trying to marry.
Illusion meets reality
Last week while hanging one of my pieces in a show, I noticed the light from the window hit the painting almost exactly as the light came through the window in the painting. Painted sunlight was then emphasized by real sunlight. It was quite strange but also very beautiful.
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