Connor's Chosen Artit presentation

Shepard Fairey
His works started on skateboards and t-shirts while attending Idyllwild Arts Academy and Rhode Island School of Design. His first publicly recognized work was the "Andre the Giant has a Posse" poster and sticker campaign, which became popular during his attendance at the Rhode Island School of Design. From this point on, his work became more and more politically charged. He has also worked on many artist collaborations, producing anti-war and anti-bush posters, as well as designing album art for Led Zeppelin, the Black Eyed Peas, Smashing Pumpkins, Flogging Molly, and a poster for "Walk the Line." He has also worked on many not for profit campaigns in which he sold his signed work and donated the proceeds to various charities. His next big break came with the Obama poster campaign, in which he edited a portrait of Obama with the word "HOPE" subtitled beneath it. There was later some legal conflict involving his use of the portrait of Obama, which was originally taken by Mannie Garcia. He was later held in contempt of Court for lying and destroying evidence that was involved in his case for the photograph used in the "HOPE" poster.
This video is a 10 minute long one, but it definitely depicts the process very well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RCJLt8hxNU

Connor's Artist Presentation

Nicola Lopez



















She is now working as a teacher at Bard in Upstate New York, but she was born in New Mexico. Her undergraduate school was not in art but rather she received her BA in anthropology at Columbia University; she later went back to receive her MFA in visual arts. She also spent some time in Brazil in between her sophomore and Junior year to study Portuguese, but this is truly when she began to go down this path of art that she has since been traveling. In Brazil she interned at their Museum of Modern Art, while taking classes in drawing, painting, and printmaking. Since, she has been recognized internationally and exhibited in many galleries and museums a few to mention are the Guggenheim, the Los Angeles County Art Museum and the MOMA.
As you can see her work is very interactive with the space it is in, seeming to appear and grow in the place it is installed. She works through large installations as well as drawings paintings and mixed media print. Her work is inspired by the environment around her and how it affects her during the duration of a project. She has even mentioned being able to recognize where and when she created certain pieces because of the certain atmosphere or mood a piece portrays.

Experimental Printmaking- Sukha Worob: Again and Again

Sukha Worob: Again and Again

interactive, performative, etching instillation
http://www.sukhaworob.com/mfa.html

experimental printmaking

Andrée-Anne Dupuis-Bourret

Monique Imperial Artist Presentation

Henri Matisse

1869-1964

Henri Matisse was a French artist known primarily as a painter although he also made plenty of work in other media. In addition to painting Matisse explored printmaking for 50 years and also was a sculptor. Matisse would make prints in his own studio, apparently, when he wanted to take a break from painting. Although Matisse is not as well known for his prints as he is for his paintings. he made over 100 drypoint prints and etchings in only one year, 1929. It seems that in addition

to a break fr

om intensive painting, he would use printmaking as an extension to his drawing practice.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser 1928-2000

Born in Vienna Austria he is best known as a painter. Hundertwasser also made prints, flags, stamps, posters and architecture. He strongly believed in individualism and this was very evident in his art. Hundertwasser's use of organic shapes illustrates his rejection of straight lines and his enchantment with the spiral. His architecture demonstrated his belief in reuniting humans with nature by designing and constructing buildings with trees growing inside of them with grass covered roofs.

Experimental Printmaking Example: Claire Kessler-Bradner