Web Art

This past week I visited the SoFA gallery, which is a apart of the Indiana University Art School and there was an exhibition of Digital art. I am currently taking a digital art class and our next project is a web art piece. Therefore I was really interested in looking at examples of web art that had be created by students within the Digital Art program. I found all of them interesting in how they involve the viewer and how viewing the piece becomes an exploration. The piece that stood out to me the most was one created by Jackie Closurdo, titled "All in your Head". When clicking on the screen a java script would appear to make the viewer feel as though they did something wrong or that the piece was now working correctly. Although the script would include sayings such as "Do you understand?", "Can you go back?", and "When will this end?". I thought that this piece was clever in how it made me question myself as a viewer. 

Examples of my work

The following is an example of one of my sculptures that is strongly influenced by patterns that occur in nature, in which I completed this past Fall. This particular piece was created, based on what the surface of leaves look like at a microscopic level.

Surface

Fiberglass resin and paint

40" x 40" x 10"

I am currently working on this same piece in clay and hope to have 13 total for installation. I plan to hang these pieces on the wall creating a rectangular shape. Having more pieces will create a better cell like affect and I think will express my original intent better than  I was able to with only the three that I created in resin.

Abstract Painting

I have found that some of Clyfford Still's (1904-80), paintings are similar to the abstract digital image that I am creating in photoshop for my second project in my Digital Art class. Still was an abstract expressionist painter that created his own style, outside of the prominent movement that was occurring in New York City at the time he was working.

Still created paintings that were full of abstract flowing shapes and he often times created these shapes using a great deal of paint that would create a texture across the surface of the canvas. His painting tilted 1949-A No. 2 is an example of this type of abstract painting. It is very expressionist in how the coarse brush stroke are visible and show the artist hand in the painting. This piece is also an example of how he did not title his pieces because he wanted to leave the interpretation of the piece up to the viewer. I feel like even though the piece is very abstract the use of color and layering of textures creates a space and an environment with voids and holes. In this one particularly there are dark empty areas in the painting and when mixed with the brighter colors creates a sense of space.

 Natali Hromin, a digital artist from Croatia created a series of images titled "Metascapes", which I find very interesting. She uses many images, some photographs of actual places and some of paintings, to create an imaginary landscape. The aesthetic that she uses is very fuzzy and out of focus which make the environment seem as though it is just an illusion.