Below are my notes from our class critique:
You were very busy painting your smaller pieces in the last week before our critique! Your color palette is so different than mine but I love seeing the complimentary colors together in your work. I wonder if you have always been drawn to that color palette? Your work is very dimensional; I want to rub my hands across it. As an artist you do a great job displaying light and shadow. It was interesting to see how you create the layers by ripping and stapling onto the canvas. Keep in touch so I can come to your show!
The work you did in Amie’s class was different from what I saw you do in Sally’s class. I believe your larger pieces could easily be displayed with the smaller work. Your distressed surfaces and repetitive patterns were gorgeous! Loved that manmade antique look you gave your pieces. As you are finishing up the program please keep in touch!
Wow! Your work could be displayed so many different ways. I was loving the idea of having the window floating out in front of the house you created. Perhaps you could build some shelves to display work on too. This would help pull the viewer’s eye from the box shape of the house. Your smaller monoprint pieces inside the sectioned wooden box were so interesting. I enjoyed looking at each one individually and think you should display some by themselves. Best of luck as you pursue getting into the program; hope to see you again soon.
I have not done much with photo transfer in my work so I was fascinated by your technique. The last piece you displayed on the far right definitely stood out from the others. It has a flowing composition and layers that draw the viewer in. The blue wash dripping down the piece has a nice effect. I would recommend pushing back the residue from the transferred text so it becomes more a part of the piece. I know you ran into some technical difficulties this semester. For your next class maybe you could work smaller and produce more images; that may put you closer to where you would like to be with your work.
Your paintings have become cohesive over the course of these past few weeks. We have watched you grow more and more confident in your process. That last week before the critique you really busted some work out! You should think back on the circumstances and environment that you were working in. Were you thinking less and working more quickly? Were you working on more than one piece at a time? Whatever you were doing was successful! I loved the last pieces you did with the seagulls and the diptych. Hope to see you in another class!
When I see your work I want to pull out all the little treasures I have collected and make some art. Your work is so much fun! It is amazing how beautiful the Xeroxes of your pieces turned out. I always want to look closer at your work. You do an awesome job at tricking the viewer with your drawings that look 3-D. Your last pieces really hit it home by using minimal supplies yet having the same effect you were going for with the earlier pieces. It was a pleasure meeting you and I hope our paths cross again!
~Hope I loved your body of work this semester and last. Your so talented and inspiring. I loved how you used so many things to add and takeaway, scratch ,draw and manipulate the surface. It keep me curiously wondering how did she do that? I wish I could sit and watch you work so I could see how you go about creating your processes and how you manipulate the surface with texture and materials man made and found in nature. I really enjoyed how you embedded thing into the surface that you found as you walked down a path and kept the objects as little memento's. You work is more about the objects then the surface but they both work hand and hand together. You definitely have a cohesive body of work and they all work so good together your glass pieces and your mixed media paintings. Great job. Show us more. I became addicted to seeing what you'd do next. Thanks for your support and great advice. Hope to see you soon.
ReplyDeleteAmie, I had my summary of experiences written at the bottom of this blog post. I cut and pasted it for you into a new blog titled "Summary of Experiences in Mixed Media". I also revamped it so my answers to your suggested questions would be clear. Sorry about the confusion! Please let me know that you got this.
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