Hilary Pecis

Some great digital collage work by Hilary Pecis

Vector Projector (Project 03)

In no particular order. The final results of Project 03.

Raymond Pettibon @ David Zwirner

"Hard in the Paint"
David Zwirner, New York
Through December 21, 2010

"If the pen was actually mightier than the sword, I would have a field day," Raymond Pettibon once told an interviewer. "It would be a fucking bloodbath." As it is, Pettibon is far from a layabout. For more than three decades he has been churning out virtuosic, text–laced drawings of hardcore punks, fearless surfers, hopeless hippies, stolid baseball players, conniving politicians, and smoking locomotives: definitive icons of American ingenuity, culture, and corruption. - Andrew Russeth, ArtInfo

Rotoscope Notes

The "order" for project 04 is above (photo of notes on dry erase board) in case anyone still needs it.


Dan Scher


Waking Life Trailer

Take a day trip to NY and see some art!

Take the Bolt Bus, Mega Bus or Chinatown bus (or if you prefer Amtrak or NJ Transit) up to NY for the day to see some great art. The Chinatown bus(from 11th and Filbert in Philly) will take you to the LES galleries while all of the other public transport will drop you near Chelsea. The fall gallery season just started and galleries are putting their best work forward. Here is quick rundown of some possible shows to check out:

In Chelsea(most galleries are West of 10th Ave and between 21st and 29th streets):


Anton Henning at Zach Feuer, 530 W. 24th St.
http://zachfeuer.com


Sarah Sze at Tanya Bonakdar, 521 W. 21st St.
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com


Laurent Grasso at Sean Kelly, 528 West 29th St.
http://www.skny.com


Tall Tales at Fred Torres (plugging my own show) 527 W. 29th Street
http://www.fredtorres.com/

Other Galleries of Interest in Chelsea:
Jeff Bailey (W. 26th Street) http://www.baileygallery.com
Fredericks and Freiser (536 W. 24th St.) http://www.fredericksfreisergallery.com
Perry Rubenstein (527 W. 23rd St.) http://www.perryrubenstein.com/
Cheim and Read (547 W. 25th St.) http://www.cheimread.com/
Gagosian, 522 West 21st St. (see also 555 West 24th Street) http://www.gagosian.com


In The Lower East Side:


David Shaw Sculpture at Feature Inc., 131 ALLEN ST NY NY 10002
http://www.featureinc.com


Louise Despont at Nicelle Beauchene, 21 Orchard Street
http://www.nicellebeauchene.com/

See Also:
Liz Cohen at Salon 94, 243 Bowery
http://www.salon94.com

DAVE COLE at Dodge Gallery, 15 RIVINGTON STREET
http://dodge-gallery.com


Additional Locations / Shows to Check out:
The MET (http://www.metmuseum.org/) and if you have time catch the Charles Burchfield exhibition at The Whitney (http://whitney.org/). For additional info on current and upcoming shows in NY check out http://www.artcat.com/

Project Two Suggestions

The following is a list of artist suggestions for your atypical list for those of you who have posted your sketches of project two as requested.

Caleigh (Early Lucian Freud):


Kristen D (Paul Noble and Brueghel):


Rachel (Daniel Richter and Charlie White):


Megan (Jessica Stockholder and Jen Stark):


Hallie (Redon and Max Ernst)


Joey (Philip Guston for comic in fine art and Matisse for color):


Maria (Ania Soliman and Tracy Emin):


Brianne (Toulouse Lautrec and Theodor de Bry):


Amanda (Michale Bauer and Joanne Greenbaum):

Art Of The Steal Trailer

Go See the Barnes before it moves!

Project One: Work In Progress

Just a quick post about some of the projects that caught my eye during a quick scan of the blogs:

From left to right starting on the top row: Joey, Caleigh, Megan, Kristen D., Josh, Rachel, Maria

Artists from today's lecture

Visual notes from today's talk:


From left to right: Matisse, David Hockney

The parents of art: Line, Shape, Pattern
Random Art Historical Examples:


From left to right: Goya, Friedrich Bertuch, Domus Aurea Frescos

Project One: Planar Pattern

Please make sure the Illustrator file you send me contains objects that will indeed work as patterns.
Please have the swatch by itself and the sample of it in action like the example above.

I will update the master file as you send your documents to me. Here is the download link: http://www.christopherdavison.com/temp/fall2010_masterpattern.zip (this link will be removed after the project is completed).

The Week in Review

Project 5 asks us to look carefully at different artists and art movements at different periods of time throughout history with particular attention being paid to the elements of shape and texture (pattern). Whether stylized (more subjective) or naturalistic (more perceived through the sense of sight), specific shapes, filled with specific patterns fill the works of art history.


Egyptian hieroglyphs, Northern European painting, Ukiyo-e prints of Japan, African masks, etc. are just some examples of the way pattern and shape work together in different cultures and periods of time.


"Chine-collé is a special technique in printmaking in which the image is transferred to a surface that is bonded to a heavier support in the printing process. One purpose is to allow the printmaker to print on a much more delicate surface, such as Japanese paper or linen, which pulls finer details off the plate. Another purpose is to provide a background color behind the image that is different from the surrounding backing sheet." (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chine-coll%C3%A9)


À la poupée (literally, "with the doll") describes a method of inking intaglio prints in which two or more inks of different colors are selectively applied to different parts of a single copperplate. The inked plate is then printed in a single pass through the press. The method takes its name from the poupée (doll), the small ball-shaped wad of fabric that is used to ink the plate.(source: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/clrflimpr-tech.shtm)

Additional:

Don't miss William Kentridge at MOMA.


Get a copy of John Dewey's, "Art As Experience"

Etchings at Midterm

Some of the intaglio prints that caught my eye during midterm: