Artist Statement//

FYI - It's a bit redundant!

This piece represents a portrayal of loss and remembrance in a universal and evocative manner. I test the notion of looking at a memory and what it means to long for a time or person and if we, as humans, in actuality, move on from loss. The two videos represent one person and my relationship to his death. One video slowly disappears, which is symbolic of the loss of the physical person. Concurrently, the other video softly moves through time and space in order to emphasize life, but is a fallacy because the person is no longer alive, except in the minds of the people that were left behind. The memory of the person will only last as long as the people that were left behind physically exist. The video prolongs this process of remembrance, which in turn becomes a coping mechanism.

artist statement

Hey guys, this is super rough and I can't seem to make it flow. I feel like its choppy. feedback?

You sit at home, alone.  You hear a noise outside your window that makes the hair on your neck rise, or perhaps you just get the eerie feeling that you are being watched.  You then try to sneak a peak through a window to get reassurance that it is just your paranoia getting the best of you, but it is pointless because you cannot see more than a few inches from the window.  Could someone be staring back? 

This group of photos forces the viewer to be the perpetrator standing in the shadows.  Embodying the perpetrator puts the viewer in the position of power and curiosity, but at the same time shame.

Hey everyone,

I submitted an event for Seven Weeks to three different calendars: LocaliQ, Albuquerque Journal and Alibi. Am I missing anything else?

Thanks
Jamie

artist statement draft- feedback! ***

Draft of statement

December changed my life through the eyes of traveling back to my culture’s homeland. I went back to Israel and found myself obsessed with it. The mountains, language, food, and traditions felt natural. I was over 7,000 miles away from Albuquerque, but somehow- I felt I was home. Since I’ve returned from this life changing trip- I’ve become obsessed with the things that had once touched Israel- as an Israeli chocolate wrapper, broken Israeli cigarettes, Israeli dirt stuck on shoes and other “trash” became shrine-like items in my eyes. This semester I focused on my fascination of the things that have touched Israel and how meaningful they have become to me.

I want it to be shorter. what information is not important to be in there? And what about the beginning?

how to explain sherrie levine to your grandmother

I thought this article was interesting and humorous.

MF: So does that make a box of old tennis shoes a work of art if I say it is?

AF: If you can show it in an exhibition context and write an artist statement for it.

MF: What is an artist statement?

AF: It is a statement that explains your artistic intent in your general practice or in regard to the particular work that you’re creating.

MF: My intent is to show the disintegration of daily life’s vital necessities with time.

http://blog.art21.org/2011/04/15/how-to-explain-sherrie-levine-to-your-grandmother/

Artist statement

soo.... here is my draft of my artist statement... feedback?

This body of work that I have been working on for the past year didn’t originate inside the relm of video, but I feel like that is where it has evolved to. I have an ongoing interest in creating portraits of people eating. Why eating? Because it has so many implications of tradition and family. I have taken it out of this context and slowly moved towards portraits of people eating with little to no context at all. It seems natural that my desire to study the human form while eating would translate well into video. The viewer now has the opportunity to see the subjects interacting in a way that is not possible through a still image. 

Artist Statements?

Has anyone got an artist statement yet? We're we supposed to post them? I having trouble with mine :(

Carissa

Food?

Does anyone know what is going on in terms of food for the reception? I have a really amazing lemonade punch recipe!

Thinking creatively

Hey! I found this article interesting. It's about thinking creatively.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creative-thinkering/201112/twelve-things-you-were-not-taught-in-school-about-creative-thinking

Hope you guys are having a good break!

Veve

(semi) URGENT! Postcard Designs!

Hey everyone!

Here are two designs to choose from. I really need to know what everyone thinks by tomorrow (March 12) by the afternoon. The reason being is because in order to get this super great deal we're getting the company has to send out the order, thus it takes a little longer. If we can send them the design by tomorrow then we can have the postcards by the end of the week (before school starts again).

Also, please check for spelling errors! I created a gmail account for contact information. It's ExhibitionSevenWeeks@gmail.com and the password is unmarts487

Thanks!

question...

So, does anyone know the name of the art duo who made those pieces with like cubes in a forest that were computer generated? They look super dated now, but back in the day they were considered like super amazing. We talked about it a few years ago in Zuromski's new media class. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Veve

Framing

Last time I worked with them they were very affordable and fast.

Gregory Crewdson

It doesn't necessarily relate to anything but I thought I would share anyway, doesn't this look amazing?

Gregory Crewdson 'Brief Encounters'

Lynda!

Hey Everyone,

In case you didn't know, if you visit http://lynda.unm.edu/ and follow the link and instructions, you'll have  free access to a lot of tutorials.

Pretty cool I thought.

Jamie

How to use the Blog

Hey Everybody! So the blog is up and running. In order to post, you must accept the invitation you should have gotten via e-mail.

Two things you need to do.

1.Create a Google account if you don't already have one

2. Join/subscribe to this blog.

3. Become and Author of this blog.

If the e-mails went though, you should all be invited to become members and authors of this blog. Let me know if that didn't work.

Now- anyone from our class can post on the blog... and you can leave comments for each post too. At the very top right side of the blog you will see a blue stripe and somewhere on there it will say NEW POST. This is how you post to the blog. The insert image button looks like a little landscape on the toolbar located in the same area as where you would change the font, spacing, ect. After you click that, you can browse your computer or hard drive to select the image or images you want to post. Keep in mind that there may be a size limit for images posted. you may need to transfer your large files into smaller j-pegs. You can also chose your alignment here too. (its really easy. the photo i posted above took like 5 seconds to do)

***Start posting photos you want to be included in our show proposal!***

- also make sure to give your posts a TITLE so we can stay organized with subject lines.

-Jodi Rosenblum