On April 8th, we got to visit a private collection turned into a private gallery of sorts, and it was definitely one of my favorite field trips we've been on. I loved the wide variety of works, sculpture, painting, and some with stories like the Philadelphia Wire Man whose identity is still unknown. I think it is really cool that we got to see behind the scenes of art collecting and the major investments art collectors make into certain artists. Some of my favorite pieces I saw would be by Sonya Clark, Mariko Mori, and I really enjoyed the self-portrait as an iguana (done by a VCU sculpture student). I also thought it was cool how they had a piece by Amy Sherald, who did Michelle Obama's Official Portrait, and I had seen one of her paintings at someone's house earlier, before she had become famous due to the portrait. I think this was a very unique experience and showed the diversity of art being made and a wide array of themes and materials that definitely will serve as inspiration moving forward.
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I sadly was not able to go see John Freyer's Lunchtime lecture, but through the recorded video I was able to experience and enjoy his talk. I think his work dealing with addiction and recovery is really interesting and a new idea that has changed and is changing modern art and our conception of art, especially social practice art. I had never heard of his art which is surprising given the relative attention he has gotten for these pieces. On his website, he connects his free ice water, free hot coffee, and free hot supper (the three parts of his 50/50 program) to Thoreau's quote about three chairs, "three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society." I think this idea is really interesting and the way he's gone about making his art is a unique path to see. By involving the community, his message is able to spread and I think has a greater impact. The idea of getting people to talk to each other is not revolutionary, but presenting it in this kind of format is something I haven't seen before. I would love to read more about his "All my life for sale" project, because it sounds really interesting.
Since my last update, I haven't gotten to work on my sculpture too much but I have made some improvements/additions since then. I have now printed out all of the pieces of fruit/fast food, and just need to glue the separate pieces together if necessary. One of the main things I have dont is print out the bar/hangers that will be used to hold these pieces and I designed multiple different sizes/styles to balance the sculpture. By the end of the month, I need to put everything together and just make sure everything works. I am pleased with how my sculpture is coming along and I can't wait to see it all together.
This week, I made some good progress again on the project, although sadly I haven't completely finished and I missed Wednesday as I was sick. So on Monday, I printed all of my remaining pieces except for the final bar structures where the food will hang from. I did design the main structure to look like a human, that will be holding up the balance which I think adds to the content. I drew inspiration from the Incredibles end credit geometric style of drawing a figure. In order to make it stand up, I placed slits at the bottom so cross pieces can be added to make it more stable. Overall, I am pretty happy with this, the hard part is going to be putting it all together. Below I put a photo of the structure and behind it you can see the Glowforge laser printer I've been using throughout the process.
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