Class Blogs
Sep 2nd, 2007 by Reverend
squawk » Molly Sheldon Adjectives
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Roblog » Artist Statement: Spore Collective At Main Art
The innate abilities of human beings to see certain objects as something else, the part of thought that turns the surface of the moon into a face, is a defining interest of most of my work. Therefore, in any medium I work in, I repurpose the human experience, with its jumbled elements of language, communication and past associations, in order ... [Link]
Roblog » Photos From CANNONCANNONCANNON
Now that CANNONCANNONCANNON (take a breath…) has closed, I just wanted to thank everyone who made it to our senior exhibition, whether you came to our opening, First Friday reception, or daily visiting hours. All the artists were thrilled about the enthusiasm we received from all visitors, art-goers, non-art-goers, Fredericksburgers and out -of-towners alike. If you missed it (and shoo-ee, ... [Link]
Roblog » CANNONCANNONCANNON
ANNOUNCING CANNONCANNONCANNON: A UMW Honors Candidacy Art Exhibition This year, those of us senior art majors applying for honors have taken the unusual step of taking our show off campus, in a space generously donated for the occasion by the inimitable Thomas J. Mitchell at the Galleria on Caroline Street. We’ve re-purposed the old-movie-theater-stage-turned -defunct-purse-shop into a quirky gallery space ... [Link]
squawk » “Art and sex, it’s all the same.” Pablo Picasso
When a mother and father make love, they lie next to each other, very close, kissing and hugging. The father’s penis gets very hard and he puts it into the mother’s vagina. The young caterpillar enters the flower bud and devours the folded flower parts, then exits by a round lateral hole and enters another bud which it precedes to ... [Link]
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Roblog » Spore Collective! Exhibition
First of all, as far as I’m concerned, the Spore Collective! has an exclamation point on the end. Second of all, here are some photos from the SPORE COLLECTIVE! exhibition currently on view at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. Special thanks to Katherine Shaw-Sweeney of the Flippo Gallery. [Link]
Roblog » Sculpture: A Pile Of Valuable Things
A Pile Of Valuable Things mixed media (books, cabinet light) 2008 In this work, the cord to an electric light is threaded through a stack that constitutes the artist’s collection of (relatively) expensive art textbooks, which are the artists most valuable possessions, both fiscally and sentimentally. The drilled hole inherently devalues the resale value of the books, and, to a ... [Link]
Roblog » Sculpture: This Could Be The Whole Ball Game
This Could Be The Hole Ball Game baseball with pencil, suspended by fishing line 2008 A Little League baseball pierced with a red pencil and hung from Jeffersonian-revival architecture offers a menacing look at the heavy-handed nostalgia of Americanism: as the title implies, this sculpture could be a jury-rigged version of the colonial hole-ball game where children idly attempted to ... [Link]
Roblog » Sculpture: Support Group I (My Arcadian Woods)
Support Group I (My Arcadian Woods) site specific installation, Melchers Hall (9 wooden studs leaned against arcade columns) 2008 Like “Storm Tossed Ship,” the title of this work alludes to an art historical standard: in this case, the Arcadian landscape. The tradition of Arcadian landscape incorporates the idea of nature as a pastoral extension of man’s dominance of the earth; ... [Link]
Roblog » Sculpture: Drawing Pictures of NASCAR With My Friend Kyle
Drawing Pictures of NASCAR With My Friend Kyle crayons, plastic, feather, caution tape, paper clip 2008 from the SPORE COLLECTIVE! exhibition at Randolph-Macon (March 2008) [Link]
Roblog » Sculpture: Piss Break
Piss Break (Robert Lynn Sucks Cock) site specific installation (wooden boards in men’s bathroom, Melchers Hall men’s bathroom) 2008 (Just as a point of reference, The title of this work incorporates both the intervention of the boards in the functionality of the bathroom stall, but also the found graffiti in the bathroom stall homophobically insulting the artist.) [Link]
Roblog » Country Boy In The City (or “Gee, look at all dem buildins!”)
Okay, here’s the scene: an obsessive art nerd (played by the plucky, intrepid Robert Lynn¹) goes to New York to check out the art “scene” for the first time, spending his final college spring break (painters gone wild!) visiting all the major galleries and museums. But wait! What if our hero turns out to be a flannel-wearing-redneck who has never ... [Link]
Roblog » The New and Improved New Museum
One of the absolute best parts of my recent gallery-hopping trip to New York was catching the inaugural exhibition at the new location of the New Museum of Contemporary Art (newmuseum.org), which, in an effort to deliberately avoid the gentrified, domesticated art scene in its native SoHo, relocated to a purpose-built six story structure in the Bowery, a gritty district ... [Link]
Elizabeth Huff's Blog » Introducing Edward Burckhardt
Currently I have an internship at the Adams Davidson Gallery in Washington DC working with the appraisal of fine art. I am working with the director of the gallery, Ted Cooper, who has so far taught me a lot about the appraisal process. The first thing I did was work with the templates for both fair market appraisals and replacement ... [Link]
Elizabeth Huff's Blog » Its hard to believe that I was in Venice less then a week ago….
I am now back at Mary Washington busy with all the forums that I have to prepare for, doing research for the numerous papers I am writing this semester, and working on a fair market appraisal for a portrait by John Singer Sargent. It is so hard that less then a week ago I was wondering around the streets of ... [Link]
Roblog » Just Passing on a Hello from New York
John Baldessari takes a moment out of making art for this important message: I’ve heard a lot about New York in my 21 years of not visiting it, and last week, this country boy took it by storm. What do I have to say about it? Well, the buildings were tall, the people were rude, and the art was spectacular! ... [Link]
Kerry's blog » Trip to London Day 4
Today I went to the British Library to look at some of the books that I was not able to check out of the library or order on Inter-library loan. The British Library system is very different from what I am accustomed to in the US. Here, you have to register as a user and then go to the specific ... [Link]
Elizabeth Huff's Blog » The Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavonni
I just got back from visiting the Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavonni. It is one of the few remaining scuole from the 15th century that still exist today because the majority of them, like the Scuola di San’ Orsola, were suppressed under Napoleonic Rule. The narratives of the lives of St. George, St. Jerome, and St. Tryphon, which make ... [Link]
Elizabeth Huff's Blog » Why do artists have such trouble paintings babies???
So today I went back to the Accademia and asked if they knew of anyone I could talk to about Carpaccio’s paintings but unfortunately they couldn’t tell me who would be the person to contact, but I still went in anyway to see the paintings again. On a side note– Giovanni Bellini paintings look like the portraits you see in ... [Link]
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