Jessica Stockholder: Sculptor And Installation Artist

Julie Becker was born in 1972, and passed away in 2016 at the age of 43[i]. Los Angeles was an integral part of her life as she grew up, created, and died in L.A; however she studied briefly at Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin in 1991 and completed a residency in Basel, Switzerland at Stiftlung Laurenz-Haus Foundation. Becker was the daughter of artists[ii], and subsequently grew up in constant travel from one apartment to the next while her parents worked odd jobs to survive. In lieu of finishing her senior year at Santa Monica High School, she became the youngest student ever to attend California Institute of the Arts in 1989 at the age of 16. From CalArts in Valencia, Becker received her BFA in 1993, and her MFA in 1995. Paul Schimmel, curator at the L.A Museum of Contemporary Art, selected Becker’s MFA thesis project, Researchers, Residents, A Place to Rest 1993-96, for the 23rd São Paulo Biennial, where she was the youngest participant.

Born in South Africa in 1966 and brought up in New Zealand, Dinnigan had experienced a range of cultures from early on in life. Dinnigan attended Wellington Polytechnic College until the age of 19 by which time she had graduated, majoring fashion design. Once graduated, Dinnigan moved to Sydney where she was given a job in the costume department of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC).

The theme of aestheticizing waste material is consistent across all of the works on display, and forms a central tenant of the artist’s practice. I admire the dedication and craftsmanship of her work but is the exhibition labouring the point with the same concept governing all the pieces? Perhaps that is the point; the artist is also duplicating the work, invoking mass production albeit in a painstakingly slow fashion.

used a scale to obtain a larger model. Her head is stretched vertically, and her hair is pulled back into a braid. It was a project to homage sea, the ocean. First, it was placed in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, and later in Chicago’s Millennium Park, Chicago. Nowadays, her serene face and closed eyes are contemplating the Port of Miami. Water is the main public space in the world and Miami is the perfect place to live when talking about water. That is why Plensa decided to place his work at the Perez Art Museum Miami.

Loretta Lux grew up in Soviet occupied East Germany. She was raised inside the Berlin Wall that came down when she was 20 years old. A year after the wall came down in 1990 Loretta stared studying paintings and art which she perused until 1996. Three years on and she had started studying photography. In 2004 she had her first solo show in America at the Yossi Milo Gallery, New York. In 2005, Loretta received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography. Her work has since been exhibited extensively abroad, including solo exhibitions in 2006 at the Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands, and the Sixth Moscow Photo biennale. Loretta’s main influences in her art are by painters such as Agnolo Bronzino, Diego Velázquez, and Phillip Otto Runge.

I visited the Janice Mason Art Museum located in downtown Cadiz, KY. The gallery they had on display was “Colorstorm” If not now… when? by the artist Stacey Torres. The gallery featured upward towards 50 original paintings. Some of the artworks in this exhibit include: The Reddest Thread, Cathy, Queen Anne, Poetry Man 1, Poetry Man 2, and Journey. Stacey Torres is an African-American folk artist, writer, and dancer. She was born in Jamaica, New York and currently lives in New Castile, Indiana. The primary focus of her work is women in natural settings. Her paintings include brilliant colors using different media and include watercolor, oil pastels, and acrylics. (2) The piece I chose to review was titled Journey. This was a large (24 x 36) acrylic painting.

James Turrell is a sculptor and designer born on the 6th of may 1943. He was born in Los Angeles, America to Quaker parents. When Turrell turned 16, he obtained a pilot license, for years, he restored antique airplanes to sustain his love for art. He obtained his bachelor degree from Ponoma college in perceptual psychology, he also studied math, geology and astronomy there. He enrolled in the university of California in 1966 and got into the graduate art studio program. After graduating, he obtained a space in an abandoned hotel in Santa Monica (Govan et al. 37). This space became his primary studio for the next 8 years, he started experimenting with light, shape and space. He was in the ‘Light and Space’ movement with artist Robert Irvine. By concealing windows and only allowing light from the streets, he created his first light projection. He is best known for his work in progress, ‘Roden Crater’, it is a natural cinder cone crater situated outside Flagstaff, Arizona.

Tony Barnstone was born in Middleton Connecticut, son of acclaimed poet Willis Barnstone and visual artist Elli Barnstone. He grew up in Indiana, Vermont and Spain. He has resided in Spain, Greece, Kenya and China for years, prior to doing a Masters in English and Creative Writing as well as a PhD in Literature at the University of California at Berkley. Barnstone is also a notable translator of Chinese poetry and prose (Poets & Writers). As a translator, editor, poet and writer of fiction, Barnstone has been influenced by distinct figures such as James Wright, Federico Garcia Lorca, and T.S. Eliot. “His poems merge crisp, precise imagery with humour, a longer cadence and an essayistic or narrative arc”. Barnstone commented in an interview, “I think that the work of poetry can be important and that each poet needs to find his or her own way to make it so” (Poetry Foundation). He is currently teaching at Whittier College in Southern California, with a focus on Creative Writing, Literary Translation, Modern American Poetry, Twentieth Century American Literature and Asian American Literature (Whittier College).

While attending the art exhibit titled "Rock Paintings" by Traci Stover, I came across two paintings that truly evoked some type of feeling inside of me. Rocks are a part of everyday life, and normally, there is nothing special about them. I was curious to see how the artist would display such an ordinary object. After observing all of the paintings, they had two paintings in particular that caught my eye. The paintings "Octet" and "Anomaly" are clearly as different as day and night, which makes them easy to compare and contrast.

Doris Salcedo was born in Columbia in 1958 and graduated from NYU in 1984. She creates incredible artwork ranging from minimalistic work to chaotic installations. It is said that she focuses her work on giving a voice to victims of violence and the Third World countries. Not only do I love the message Salcedo is trying to put out, I also think her work is extremely creative. The piece that stood out the most to me was her Installations at 8th International Istanbul Biennial. This installation is over 1,500 wooden chairs stacked up in-between two buildings in the middle of the city. This piece goes very well with her focus on victims of violence. This installation could be seen as a mass grave for anonymous victims. Each chair is unidentifiable,

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He has exhibited his artwork in over 30 U.S. states and in ten different counties, including China, Spain, Chile, Brazil, Czech Republic and Russia. Carlos has lectured about Chicano Art History and his own artwork at many colleges, universities, galleries and art centers including; The Bronx Museum, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Las Bellas Artes in Mexico City, The Albuquerque

Pop Art was a Modern art development that developed during the mid-twentieth century in both England and America. It first started to pick up acknowledgment in the early 1950's, after around twenty years of Abstract, as specialists changed their consideration and looked to change. In the late 1950's and early 1960's, Pop Art got to be substantially more prominent to the overall population and fruitful for the development's art because of the world becoming drained of the repetitive types of Abstract. Found in the Menil Collection, Seated Woman and Lavender Disaster are two illustrations of Pop Art. The correlation of these two pieces shows in spite of the fact that they vary in medium and topic both Seated Woman and Lavender Disaster offer

After eliminating all the social media links and donation pages of any of the NGO I have checked, there is hardly any other outlinks to any other groups or NGOs. This maybe due to the fact that I am checking webpages, not a blogs. Therefore, It was hard to form a network, even though I know most of these groups are connected through their facebook pages. However, Most of these groups, which usually belongs to a larger, national organization is linked to a larger organization that operate nationwide. For example, The Feminist Art Project -Baltimore, is linked to TFAP which is located in Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Museum of Art in Philadelphia, United States. It is the largest fabric ever painted by Cézanne,