Exquisite Corpse Etchings by Jake and Dinos Chapman

This series of Exquisite Corpse etchings was executed by the fantastic Chapman brothers. These former YBA stars have gone on to produce a serious body of work that often wheels and deals in shock value (see their piece entitled, Hell). However, underlying their urge to disturb is a solid drawing ability.

Barkley Hendricks @ PAFA

You would be wise to not miss the Barkley Hendricks Exhibition at PAFA. Fantastic use of color and texture. PAFA is located at 118 - 128 N. Broad Street. http://www.pafa.org/Museum/

Vector based student work from previous semesters

From Top Left: Mike Spix, Sarah Lu, Andrew DaChille, Sarah Hallacher, Jake Kozak, Jon Omeara

Papercraft Ideas (440 years too late)

I found a gem of a book up in Paley that is a facsimile of the original 1569 copy in Italian. The book is called La Pratica Della Perspettiva and it is by one Daniel Barbaro. While much of the book focuses on perspective there are some fascinating papercraft-like constructions that I scanned to share with you below. Google pales in comparison to some of the gems that are waiting to be found in Paley. If you haven't poked around up there recently, do yourself the favor of exploring. There is a book with similar diagrams written by Albrecht Durer from 1525 entitled, "The Painter's Manual." I could find neither of these books online but they are just collecting dust up in the Library. Great stuff.

Hiraki Sawa @ Vox

Great use of After Effects on display at VOX Populi gallery (319 N 11th St # 3, ring the buzzer) through November 1st by James Cohen artist Hiraki Sawa. While you are there check out some of the other great art in the show including the big woodblock prints of Rob Swainston and the silkscreen and collage works of Eva Wylie. There is no cost for this event.

Two Houses, One City

Two events to catch this Wednesday, October 7th 2009


Film @ International House
Wednesday, October 7 at 7pm
The Windmill Movie
dir. Alexander Olch, US, 2008, video, 82 mins, color

Dusty boxes of film, 200 hours of footage, a broken editing computer: these were the parts of filmmaker Richard P Rogers’ daring attempt to make his own autobiography. He died in 2000, leaving behind a lifetime of filmed memories. Working with Wallace Shawn, Bob Balaban and acclaimed photographer Susan Meiselas (Richard’s wife), student and protege Alexander Olch began to make an impossible film out of the pieces. An autobiography that isn’t; a documentary which is fiction; a lifetime of questions, finally answered.


THE WELCOME HOUSE

Wednesday, October 7 at Love Park
Eugenie Perret & Candy Depew
Join Eugenie for a day of knitting as she knits herself into a giant cocoon, while Candy creates an expanding, colorful mural decorated with various Love Park motifs.
7-10 pm: Please join us for DesignPhiladelphia's opening night party at The Welcome House

Project 2 / Three Ideas

As I mentioned in class, the particular parameters of project 2 will most likely lead you to experimenting with one of the following three options:

Composite: Using all of the individual elements to form one new entity or series of entities (below: Fred Tomaselli)


Landscape: Using all of the individual elements to create depth and space in the way that traditional landscape painting does (below: Bosh's, Garden of Earthly Delights)


Abstract: Using all of the individual elements to create a significant representational or non-representational abstract painting (below: Julie Mehretu)