tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22191785087653777472024-03-12T21:07:49.620-07:00the blog flumenicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2219178508765377747.post-17343448345964949672011-04-15T18:49:00.000-07:002011-04-20T18:24:55.194-07:00Thesis ExhibitionWith the pressure of thesis pushing down on me I found it very difficult to produce a completed painting. I continuously forced things to happen within the painting out of fear they wouldn’t happen on there own in time. Because of this inability to produce work my desired thesis project continued to shrink. The ideal 5 piece series was downsized to a measly three. I was very nervous that my small body of work was going to be lost on my 15 foot wall as well as within the show. i had concerns about color that nearly drove me insane. If two of my paintings use the same color palette will the third be out of place if I deviate? If I stick to the same colors will it be too much of the same thing?<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U2H8P_f-fl4/Taz4Y57e6XI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/CUt7qt7E6hM/s1600/206236_10150216712256955_725086954_8744435_639463_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U2H8P_f-fl4/Taz4Y57e6XI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/CUt7qt7E6hM/s320/206236_10150216712256955_725086954_8744435_639463_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Thanks to Caetlynn Booth and the gift of Pema Chodron, I was able to relax, reassess my situation, and regain trust in myself and my process. <br />
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My third painting was finished the day of installation. To my delight the painting fit well with the other two paintings I was showing. Thier was a definite progression evident within it, however it also made references to the discoveries made in the two paintings hanging with it. My concern of the wall space was also put to rest during installation. The wall allowed for each painting to have its own space and allowed me to hang them at desired intervals. Hanneline felt the installation suggested seriality, each space almost could be read as another painting. Hanneline as well as the critic, Beth, both discussed my presentation in terms alluding to its honesty. Beth also addressed the relationship of paintings to its presentation, suggesting they go hand and hand, reinforcing eachother. how my paintings are obviouvsly ply wood glued and nailed to more wood. its about process.<br />
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Meeting with the critic, Beth, was an amazing experience. She was a very intelligent woman and it was such a pleasure to speak with her. She was able to identify important points within my work and experienced my work in the way I hoped.<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--xmr0rHWLIA/Ta3PpWTpycI/AAAAAAAAAIc/JNl6bsf257Y/s1600/_DSC0378.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--xmr0rHWLIA/Ta3PpWTpycI/AAAAAAAAAIc/JNl6bsf257Y/s320/_DSC0378.JPG" width="320" /></a>Beth began by analyzing the formal aspects of the paintings. She felt the interaction of layer, line, shape and color were effective. She felt the limited color pallete was successful, describing my off compliments as “sophisticated”. Beth found the relationship between form and space interesting. Hanneline referred to this same relationship as a chess game, identifying my process of going back and forth between image and space. <br />
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Beth recognized the degenerative aspect of the image, sensed they were crops of larger images, and most importantly that these have a strong reference to my process. She also discussed how the paintings offer wide possibility of paint. As expressed through excerpts from my written thesis, these were all main points within my written thesis.<br />
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"The figures in my paintings are described in terms of fragments, the body is considered as “parts” out of context of the whole. The result this philosophy imbues is a series of visual representations of the “body” deconstructed from its formal conventions, and recreated anew with imaginative and defamiliarized qualities."<br />
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"explore psychological exposition and physical deterioration"<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Da8Qkp74bYs/Ta3PrPPryTI/AAAAAAAAAIg/HgaotQH1leA/s1600/_DSC0382.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Da8Qkp74bYs/Ta3PrPPryTI/AAAAAAAAAIg/HgaotQH1leA/s320/_DSC0382.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>"My paintings are constructed through an active dialogue of observation and interpretation of the subject. My paintings record my visual and thought processes, allowing each painting to develop from the active engagement and conversation with the paint. Without a preconceived notion, each mark, color, or gesture informs the next, building up and scraping away until arriving at a place that feels right. I activate the paintings surfaces by employing a wide painterly vocabulary through creating contradictions in the paint, and juxtaposing different types of representations, i.e. pairing strong textures with smooth surfaces, allowing flat color felids to interrupt receding planes, and collapsing three dimensional forms into a two dimensional contour. By limiting space, and pushing imagery against the picture plane, the paintings project into the viewers space, forcing the painting to confront the viewer. Vibrant colors often paired with their compliment create surfaces charged with energy."<br />
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Beth, Hanneline, and my peers were able to interact with my paintings in different ways.<br />
<u>implications/interpretations of shape/image: </u><br />
<ul><li>post industrial <br />
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<li>futuristic </li>
<li>submerged object</li>
<li>machine formed/ man vs. machine</li>
<li>growing-expansive</li>
<li>molded plastic</li>
<li>joints/ desire to move </li>
</ul><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O2dRrID1mpU/Ta3PmLNbjNI/AAAAAAAAAIY/XE-Ww5j5gkg/s1600/_DSC0380.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O2dRrID1mpU/Ta3PmLNbjNI/AAAAAAAAAIY/XE-Ww5j5gkg/s320/_DSC0380.JPG" width="320" /></a>The following passage is from my written thesis. It describes the desired interaction between the paintings and the veiwer.<br />
"These paintings are not easily read, they require the viewers active engagement, looking and deciphering."<br />
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“The illegibility of the subject will ideally allow the viewer to contemplate, absorb and experience the painting in its entirety, in efforts that the expression of the whole will add up to more than the sum of its parts. While enhancing the importance of the paint and process this also will allow the painting to take on ambiguity from which viewers are encouraged to construct there own reality.”nicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2219178508765377747.post-60449969968574638002011-02-18T18:13:00.001-08:002011-02-19T15:18:54.670-08:00In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work… if the artist carries through his idea and makes it into visible form, all the steps in the process are of importance. The idea itself even if it is not made visible, is as much a work of art as any finished product. All intervening steps - scribbles, sketches, drawings, filed works, models, studies, thoughts conversations- are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product.<br />
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Sol LeWitt, Paragraphs on Conceptual Artnicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2219178508765377747.post-32946187314672594982011-02-18T17:52:00.000-08:002011-02-18T17:55:06.350-08:00Dear Melissa Torro,<br />
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I tried to comment on your blog, however, you dont seem to have that feature. I just remembered an artist i saw a while back in Chelsea. Leonardo Drew. He shows at Sikkema Jenkins. Look at his work.<br />
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Love,<br />
Nicolenicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2219178508765377747.post-68548897151593148642011-02-03T19:23:00.000-08:002011-02-03T19:23:39.202-08:00"A bad earthquake at once destroys our oldest associations:<br />
The earth, the very emblem of solidity, has moved beneath our feet like a think crust over fluid; one second of time has created in the mind a strange idea of insecurity, which hours of reflection would not have produced."<br />
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Charles Darwin, after experiencing an earthquake in Chile 1835nicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2219178508765377747.post-15513429258952584422011-02-03T18:08:00.000-08:002011-02-03T19:25:46.275-08:00can you have your cake and eat it too?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TUtSjwhwL2I/AAAAAAAAAIM/x-QCicGTjSw/s1600/tomorrow+033.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TUtSjwhwL2I/AAAAAAAAAIM/x-QCicGTjSw/s200/tomorrow+033.jpg" width="196" /></a><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TUtSiZ72jsI/AAAAAAAAAII/W85vOL77COg/s1600/tomorrow+031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TUtSiZ72jsI/AAAAAAAAAII/W85vOL77COg/s200/tomorrow+031.jpg" width="196" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I brought these two paintings to the semesters first crit. My crit group didn't have much<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">feedback regarding the paintings themselves, however an issue necessary of further thought was addressed.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">The imagery of these paintings are derived from the reduction and reinterpretation of the figure.On the topic of titles, it was suggested that the knowledge of subject will heighten the interest of the viewer. My concern lies with in how the viewer experiences the paintings. Because my paintings are not easily read, will knowing these are figural images turn my paintings into a game of Where's Waldo?</div><br />
By taking emphasis off the subject, i would leave the paintings as an open-ended experience. It has been my belief that illegibility of the subject will allow the viewer to contemplate, absorb and experience the painting in its entirety, in efforts that the expression of the whole will add up to more than the sum of its parts.<br />
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Because these paintings are constructed through an active dialogue with the painting and celebrate paint as paint, would diminishing importance of subject enhance the importance of the paint and process? Would the ambiguity encourage the viewer to construct their own reality? Which does more for the paintings?nicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2219178508765377747.post-5945066302233080852010-11-23T15:04:00.000-08:002010-11-23T15:04:30.175-08:00the second set of windows down. two more to go.<br />
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</a></div>i finished the first request- paint the toys for tots logo.<br />
i learned that painting on cold glass can be very problematic. unless these problems were just product of Folk Art Acrylic.<br />
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</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">a work in progress. Wendy and Westfall both suggested to further reduce the figure. </div>nicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2219178508765377747.post-31374115684508646122010-11-19T19:55:00.000-08:002010-11-19T19:55:50.011-08:00Magnus Von Plessen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TOdGae69o0I/AAAAAAAAAHQ/X3SAuz_2W1s/s1600/Magnus+Plessen+5+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TOdGae69o0I/AAAAAAAAAHQ/X3SAuz_2W1s/s400/Magnus+Plessen+5+.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br />
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<span id="goog_137440214"></span><span id="goog_137440215"></span>nicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2219178508765377747.post-36543816911841137852010-11-09T18:37:00.000-08:002010-11-09T18:37:13.848-08:00Dana Schutz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TNoE7qnR86I/AAAAAAAAAGU/yyTdcTiXdNw/s1600/dana+schutz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TNoE7qnR86I/AAAAAAAAAGU/yyTdcTiXdNw/s400/dana+schutz.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TNMqV4hY4_I/AAAAAAAAAFw/cHbvGBUijxA/s1600/Schlaf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="271" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TNMqV4hY4_I/AAAAAAAAAFw/cHbvGBUijxA/s400/Schlaf.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">i am extremely drawn to the simplified and structured forms. these influence the forms in my newest paintings.</span>nicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2219178508765377747.post-4508674204565569672010-11-04T14:42:00.001-07:002010-11-04T20:17:20.667-07:00<a href="http://brooklynrail.org/2006/04/art/amy-sillman-with-phong-bui">Amy Sillman with Phong Bui - The Brooklyn Rail</a><br />
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"love at first sight" would sum up my relationship with Amy Sillman's paintings. looking further into Sillman and her work i discovered many levels of similarity between Sillman's thought/ visual processes and interests and my own. im not sure whether to be exicted or worried.nicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2219178508765377747.post-87735050563831832662010-10-19T18:06:00.000-07:002010-10-19T18:06:54.694-07:00Egon Schiele<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the major criticisms i have received about my work are on my lack of space and use of line. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">i have tried to work to resolve these "issues", </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">but i cant seem to get passed this interest in juxtaposing flat space and line with three dimensional rendering of forms.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">i am not interested in deep defined pictorial space. i'm interested in squeezing realistic space out of my paintings. having my paintings push into the viewers space. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A classmate suggested i look at Egon Schiele, an artist that has a similar interest. Schiele places figures on a flat ground and successfully </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">balances drawing and painting. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">WLCM BCK showcased artwork of Mason Gross faculty, staff and second year MFA graduate students. The exhibit </span><span style="font-size: small;">celebrated all modes of artistic expression. Offering various mediums and a myriad of concepts, WLCM BCK provided inspiration and excitement to set off the 2010 fall semester. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Stephen Westfall, <i>Cosmadin,</i> 2008 oil on canvas 36''x30'</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table>Stephen Westfall employs the grid in this geometric painting. The picture plane is divided into four equal quadrants- each filled with diagonal lines consistent in width and evenly spaced. Each section mirrors the next, appearing to refract at the X and Y axis, lines make sharp turns around the surface to create a diamond formation. Each section of this painting supports and reinforces the others, creating a very structurally sound painting. The lines are painted in a pattern (beginning from the outside) of red, blue, green, and yellow. The alternation of cool and warm colors creates a vibrating effect, causing the painting to ripple inward stopping at the central yellow diamond. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wendy White, CNC, 2010 acrylic on canvas 37.5''x43''</span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wendy White explores the possibilities of her materials. Displaying an interest in text, </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">White not only infuses lettering into her abstract canvases, but looks to text to inspire the canvas itself. White juxtaposes areas of flat greens, blues, pinks and oranges with dynamic applications of black paint. Creating a third layer, White tops the painting with stenciled letters. The layered picture plane, assorted surface treatments, and varied applications of paint, create interesting space within the painting.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Elieen Behnke, <i>On the Grass</i>, 2010 oil on canva<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">s</span></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Spilling from the top left, six figures dominate composition. Some landing heads up and some heads down, the figures seem to have tumbled into place . Lounging and resting on each other, the figures become difficult to decipher from one another, and the background. The close physical proximity and level of comfort and contentment defined within the painting shows a strong relationship between the figures. The artist shows her hand in her active brush work. A playful and luminous color palette suit’s the carefree representation of friends on the grass.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span></span>nicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2219178508765377747.post-57832308274395966002010-09-18T15:22:00.000-07:002010-09-30T21:08:08.941-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TKVdIQfpMiI/AAAAAAAAADk/U3rjBuPJbbw/s1600/0916101432a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TKVdIQfpMiI/AAAAAAAAADk/U3rjBuPJbbw/s640/0916101432a.jpg" width="538" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TJU7ijjH07I/AAAAAAAAACc/L14HAqFAjJ8/s1600/0916101555a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DVED0WRmxnE/TJU7ijjH07I/AAAAAAAAACc/L14HAqFAjJ8/s640/0916101555a.jpg" width="538" /></a></div>nicole sardonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154298478573350177noreply@blogger.com0