WW11 Day 2 critique references

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Gwen

Ana Teresa Fernandez  is a multimedia artist that I had not heard of, but am really moved by. Thought of you and using your body as the visual storyteller. I especially love the imagery of her and the horse in the cenote. I LOVE this quote by her:  ‘how come boys get to come of age by conquering some part of nature and women instead get killed in nature?’

and in case others are interested, here is the Theresa Ganz link http://smackmellon.org/files/6215/1553/1444/Theresa_Ganz_-_press_release.pdf

Tamara
-In my backyard/ NOT in my backyard
-emotional response to the Magnolia tree taken down.
-terrarium
-apply to Mark Dion’s residency program: Mildred’s Lane
–nature therapy
-probiotics made of soil are a popular and effective treatment for adding good “bugs to the system. Garden of Life was first company to sell them. I think the soil based is one of the best probiotics I have ever tried. Would you consider making your own filled capsules of soil? they would have to have toxic symbols?

artists to look at:

Mark Dion
amateur naturalist Matthew Wills https://www.humansandnature.org/matthew-wills

Nina Katchadourian

Carsten Höller: gave out empty pills “placebos” in his installation, Pill Clock (red and white pills),  with a mechanical drop mechanism at The Jewish Museum Take me I’m yours exhibition. I took one but i didn’t ingest it. I saw some people in the exhibition actually ingest it. I’m now obsessed with you making soil capsules.

Deborah
-new certificate in “home inspections”- curious how this overlaps with your art practice!
-4 basic elements: earth, water, air, fire.  the Chinese have five – they add metal
-desire to engage with the audience/ social experience

“The bible of Climate Change”

look at bamboo Mason Bee Houses
Audrey Hepburn’s characters in the movie Roman Holiday visits the “wall of wishes” in Rome which seems to take influence from small ex voto plagues nailed to outer walls of churches.

artist to look at:

-lionel cruet and his installation “entres nosotros” “between us” with video, a row boat and hammocks
-Pippoloti Rist, installations vs enclosures for individual experiences
scott chamberlain
-jeanne Jaffe
-Yoko Ono wish tree

Olga
focus on formal issues and materials
“looking at the transition of the container from natural material to industrial material”
“earth contains the natural disaster and transforms it”

-look at birds nests and Bower birds, males collect junk to make nests to attract mate

-“sausage pods” river remediation method of using buoy-like floaters: search floating oil containment booms barriers

-Eva Hesse ” Tori” 1969 fiberglass shapes

Time lapse of the bamboo gate install at the Met https://www.metmuseum.org/metmedia/video/collections/asian/japanese-bamboo-art-timelapse

Linda
water pipes- where is water coming rom? where is it going? symbolism of water.

if you need finding out ore about where the water flows in NJ contact the Montclair Environmental Coordinator or the Essex County Environmental center for a reference. They have been very helpful in the past when i call.

-Diego Rivera- worth taking another look at his murals, especially the Detroit murals. I could see your painting as a mural as well.
–Kay Walkingstick– currently on view at Montclair Art Museum, a must see for you and Olga

Wendell
D shapes insects make
curvy lines insects make in the bark

artists to look at:
Jennifer Angus
Cui Fei
Dr. Seuss
http://earth-emag.com/issue-9-botanical-issue/

Jessica

continuous painted line
burnt lines

artist to look at:

Elana Herzog http://www.elanaherzog.com/pages/panels/00panels.html
ula einstein   Deborah also would enjoy her work
lee borthwick 

Amanda
water, plastic

Collecting local water and garbage? locations?
how will the different local water effect the paper making and ink process?
using the river water vs the ocean water changes look of paper?
How is meaning different using river vs ocean water?
Leonardo Da Vinci supposedly said: “In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time” I think versions of this idea precede him.

look at salt flats- grid format

Artist to look at:
rachel honnery  works with collecting marine plastics

jane ingram allen is using plant fibers sourced from specific locations, has a good description of her process and doing the papermaking with a minimal set up.  https://janeingramallen.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/more-about-jane-ingram-allens-artist-in-residency-at-fire-island-national-seashore/ http://www.paperslurry.com/tag/jane-ingram-allen/

Also look at Tessa Grundon

Sharon

Although we didnt get to talk to you in person, thank you for posting your images and thoughts.
i lok forward to hearing more about the progress.
Can you explain”Botanic aesthetic”? are you talking about the look of the painted santos sculptures or the look inside of the Botanica?
if waiting for the ceramic printer is too long, what is you make a 3d printed plastic one and then make a cast to make in ceramic or plaster? still wasteful, but faster.

artist to look at :
My immediate response for references is Fred Wilson: his cultural series using nefertiti scans and painting them, and his site-specific installation at Oberlin college Wild Are Test Pit. Im curious about you drawing from the poses of neoclassical marble sculpture. we now know that these sculptures were painted over, not just left white marble. contemporary Santos sculptures are always brightly painted ( i think they are plaster or ceramic?). What happens if they were not painted or painted one color? white washed? i don’t think I have ever seen an unpainted santo. its a different direction but the issue of color on the sculpture and race are there. The old santos sculptures were made of wood and look very different.

Jennifer Rubell and her 3-d scanned self portrait

Candles are an important part of the altar. Artist who have made their own votives of Obama, Selena, celebrities, and Ventiko’s local artists made into saints.