February 2012
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5 NEW EXCHANGES
It is the first thing I see when I look into the gallery. But then again, how can anyone miss it? When I look at the Fine Line Magazine wall, I see a collage of all things beautiful. As a designer who loves the fine arts, I can’t help but appreciate this seamless fusion of the two. The wall brings text and image together in a way that transcends the average magazine. Every photograph, every...
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6 SYMPOSIUM
The Symposium really opened my eyes to the range of possibilities for careers after MIAD. As a Communication Design major, I was especially interested in asking the designers things like: How did you get to the position you’re in today? What kind of work would you like to do in the future? Do you still practice other forms of art, or do you do any artwork just for yourself (like painting or...
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4 LOVE VS. HATE
PART 1
I love…
Eric Marrian
Peter Downsbrough
Blake Rayne
Jeremy Geddes
Michael Cinque
Iannis Delatolas
Robert Adams
Andy Denzier
William Turner
Jesse B Harris
I hate…
Keith Nelson
Thomas Kinkade
Bernard Gilardi
Ugo Nonis
Judith Braun
Taka Ishikawa
Vincent Van Gogh
Lee Krasner
Kara Walker
Trenton Doyle Hancock
I “love” Kara Walker:
Kara Walker is...
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3 VALUE JUDGMENT
“Absolute values…are inborn in all humans identically in all times and place, in what Pluto called the Eye of the Soul, and what Kant called the Faculty of Judgment, or Taste” (17).
I think absolute values, whether they be the Eye of the Soul or the Faculty of Judgment, have a lot to so with instinct. The book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell talks about why our snap judgments are the...
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January 2012
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2 CONTENT
Nan Goldin and Marco Maggi are two artists who definitely had no trouble shaking up the art world. They both were successful in making extreme, bold, and important statements in very subtle ways. I don’t think either of them was necessarily looking for success, but they found it through years of self-exploration and growth. The fact remains that if Maggi or Goldin had found success earlier in...
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I am my conscious and subconscious mind all at...
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STATEMENT OF NOW
I am my conscious and subconscious mind all at once. I am a subjective being. The artist I am today is a result of my experiences had, mistakes made, and lessons learned through time. My current work is haunted by shadows of my former self, each new piece just an extension of the last. So who am I as an artist/designer? I am a combination of who I am trying to be and who I inherently have always...
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1 AUDIENCE
Thomas Kinkade and Rirkrit Titavanija could not be any more different. In terms of pleasing the general populous, the winner is most certainly Kinkade. His paintings and, maybe more importantly, his empire look and feel the way his audience want them to look and feel. They’re the kind of artwork you see in a hospital, office building, or possibly even your grandma’s house. In my research I looked...
December 2011
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PECHA KUCHA
In this Pecha Kucha I want to present the way I see and think differently as a result of the experiences I’ve had in the class.
I now see and think differently in the following ways:
•By valuing an experience over the memory of that experience
•By taking time to see things more clearly
I have three years experience as the editor of my high school’s yearbook. In my time on the staff, my...