Here’s another installment of my notes. Again my disclaimer: they are short, and they are things that strike me as important as the dialogue progresses. Feel free to open this post and edit and/or add comments.
Asha
(I have more for you, but my notes are elsewhere- mostly they were notes on your work as you described it. I’ll put it in here hopefully tomorrow)
Eileen mentioned a Buddhist butter sculpture in response to edible sculpture
video recommendation: Guillermo Gomez Perez: Body of the Immigrant
Confiscated by customs- life sized jello body copy
Eating body of the immigrant
Jeanine Antoni- Stations of the Cross
Jennifer
Frightened/intimidated by religion
small stitching- sewing maching tech issues
bright grount
suggestions: hat stitching/software with sewing machine
printing/screenprinting
Megan Klim- Jersey artist: ink in wax- encaustic
sewing into paper
paper ideas: mylar/vellum/tracing paper
cross-stitching: hook rug backing
fabric stores: JoAnn, Talas
Tools: Mechanical awl/ Japanese screw punch
Rachael
Looking at altar pieces.
triptych linen and gold paint
presenting image worship
pose: ecstatic/orgasmic/ethereal/weightless
jesus on the cross/wailing mourning/falling not flying
power in face/brain (?)
St Theresa’s ecstasy (Bernini)
Emotionless-playboy
Dealing with image of women- possibly kitsch maybe blonde
Barbarella
Background may add context: color/celestial/fabric/painting
Change tension in posture
Variations on gender spectrum
Legs together not necessarily just as Christ- but also modesty/propriety
Use the sagan context?
Use video still as opposed to photo still
see A.I.R. Gallery group show
Gestation stage- growing aliens/parasitic growth stage/
Bodies exhibition: South Street Seaport
Michelle Levante
Crown of thorns
Hinging?
Second skin latex layering
Sheeting layers/silicone release paper/cheesecloth with clear gel medium/dntal dam textures
Separating experiments- how images go together vs. skin textures
Stations of the cross
Heresy in meditation so much that you identify
Hydrogen peroxide/saltwater to speed rusting/paint rusting texture
Shellack on latex breaks it down
Ask Pearl Paint about archiving/complete sculptor- VanDam
Liz Seaton
3 Fates
MOG as suggestive of Catholicism
creatrixes/corner relief
Recovering allegory: Guston
Moving past allegory
discussion of meaning in work.
anxiety about literality
Eileen
Lino/Collygraph (sp?)
Hexagons: beehives/chemistry bonding
Tab to open book. Exhibition vs. interaction
“Books Boxes and Portfoliosâ€- Text
Small Pearl screens/Pearl Paint=cheapest/ NY Central=in stock
experiment at _gaia
Jaz
Cheap bought/making panties
Suffering/pleasure red/white wine/water, bread/wine, tears/blood, water/fire
Batik bedsheet
Itallian renaissance Art- geometry/structure/perspective/formulas
Death of Virgin
Triangle in the square
mass produced-sweatshop labor
Was Mary making her own panties?
American Psycho (film) scene of murder
The Bell Jar
Relationship btw bedsheet/panties
Panty vending machines
Anxiety of hymen
Red Tent
Fear: showing sheets
Resewing to experience the hymen.. spinal (?) surgery
Francisca
Highlighting festivity/ 6 inch monitor
Ornate arriving
Lining with tin: soup cans/beer cans
Craft flowers
Image
Viewer as editor/crosscutting
use small text on wall for translation/physical writing? instead of subtitling
Passport imagery
Kitsch: as image/ plastics fetishizing the handmade. outsider viewer defines kitsch
Intention behind relic/oratory items
Handmaking to either minimize or refuse kitsch
Alana
Modern Wife part 2 (was it modern love? did I make that up last week?)
Change of mood
Change of perspective?
Meditation of window scene as opposed to teacup/shoes
b&w will need projection testing
Slow motion/use different camera
B&W vs. Color
Breaking violence/gentle intentional unbinding
Heat up sink in order to have cold water break glass instead of sink.
(Venue options)
Lex Leonard
Grace Church
Library Building
660 Grand
919 Gallery
Stacy Collins house
Gallery space as opposed to alternative space
