Paul Chaney talking about his drawings made recently at Donetsk. Super interesting diagrams of nature-culture interactions, going back to the Big Bang, and forward to this coal town in the Ukraine.

https://www.facebook.com/drawingandcognition/posts/10154057450761604?notif_t=page_wall&notif_id=1484669394141119

http://tranzitdisplay.cz/cs/vystavy/paul-chaney-donetsk-syndrome-diagrammatic-vernisaz-15-12-1900

http://www.paulchaney.co.uk/

 

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I appreciate the ceramic works by artist Betty Woodman because she offers so many possibilities with the medium of clay. Although she was originally trained professionally as a potter, over time her work has morphed into fantastic sculptures. I was first drawn to her work in my undergraduate studies when I first started out in a hand building class.  Her work demands the viewers attention and always receives responses… I made connections to her work after reading the last chapter. Drawing can serve as a departure for many avenues of the creative process!

I can remember using this book in my undergraduate studies as a resource, it was especially helpful when I was struggling in my first studio class/ painting from from observation. I made connections to the previous Vermeer literature we read in that Berger addresses  the painting” Woman Pouring Milk”. He states that “although the silence and stillness permeates the actual material…  what we make of that painted moment when it is before our eyes depends upon what we can expect from art, and that in turn depends today upon how we have already experienced ” (31). I feel like the same can be thought of with drawing, I feel that drawing can be intimidating for students. An older art teacher told me today that teaching the ” elements and principals” was outdated and should no longer be taught.  But I disagree, I can remember studying masters, when I was younger, Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir and other impressionists. This process, I feel, taught me to truly paint, form, objects, render light and shadows. Ways of seeing can be approached from multiple lenses I think….

Brette’s post on Chihuly reminded me of this show.  The Insititue for Figuring should be on every list of STEAM resources!
Crochet Coral Reef: TOXIC SEAS celebrates the tenth anniversary of the “Crochet Coral Reef” (2005–present), an ongoing project by sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim and their Los Angeles–based organization, the Institute For Figuring. Mixing crocheted yarn with plastic trash, the work fuses mathematics, marine biology, feminist art practices, and craft to produce large-scale coralline landscapes, both beautiful and blighted. At once figurative, collaborative, worldly, and dispersed, the “Crochet Coral Reef” offers a tender response to the dual calamities facing marine life: climate change and plastic trash.
Margaret Wertheim’s TED talk here.

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http://madmuseum.org/exhibition/crochet-coral-reef-toxic-seas