3d Canvas / Artists & Ideas

I wanted to use the following two artists to highlight the idea of Project 2. You will be taking photos of a 3 dimensional object that you have fashioned out of some material (clay, paper, wood, etc.) and using that as a "blank" canvas on which you will paint photographic elements. Consider the construction and how it relates to the photographic elements and how the figure will nest itself into an environment. Consider the environment from the outset or it will most likely end up looking tacked on.

First Artist:
Daniel Gordon currently shows with Zach Feuer. Daniel's paper-like figures are subjected to violent action and torn apart or disemboweled . The collision of artifice and reality holds the key to the tension in his work. Additionally I would call attention to the settings for each piece. They are simple yet give the figures a believable environment to exist in.



above image: Daniel Gordon


above image: Daniel Gordon

Second Artist:
Ida Applebroog currently shows at Ronald Feldman Gallery. She was the artist featured on ART 21 that originally inspired the idea for this project. Her use of crudely formed petite (yet monolithic) sculptures serves a starting point for more developed paintings. The vagueness and ambiguous nature of the small sculptures allows her to develop them without such a definitive outline for how to proceed. I would keep that in mind with your own sculpture. How ambiguity and looseness at the beginning can serve the development of the work until the final details come into place in the end. Work loose to tight, just as you would a drawing.


above image: Ida Applebroog


above image: Ida Applebroog