#1- August 26th (2D & 3D Artists)

This is the very first blog entry for the blog/journal assignment in art 108. I am hoping to make this a very interesting blog with a lot of info on cool artist and art happenings and share what goes on in my involvement in the art community outside of class.


Today after lab for art 108, a fellow student, Eli, told me about an art collective based out of Portland called Urban Honking. I took a look and here are some highlights. Eli was right when saying that the websites new design is a little hard to navigate and follow. Most of the blogs I came across were photo/food blogs but not too many that were art based. I had to dig a lot to find what I was looking for.

I cam across this entry here and found some photos that reminded me of another photographer, Izima Kaoru, who does a lot of imagery involving death but making it very organized and gorgeous in a twisted fashionable sort of sense. My favorite photos by Kaoru involve two children lying "dead" on a beach.

photo by Sarah
















photo by Izima Kaoru















I am going to move on from Urban Honking and come back to that later. I want to share some blogs that just seem to DUMP a ton of artists for people to check out. One is for the Art Basel in Miami, a modern art gallery. This is a show from 2002, but I think the artwork in the show is still very much sought after today and still has impact on the art community now.
some favorites from the blog:

Gilles Barbier | L'Hospice 2002















photos by Justine Kurland





















Photos by Sally Mann















others








I can't seem to get away from twin imagery and super cute shit. Artist names have escaped me for the last two images, it will come back to me eventually. Often I deal with twos and the freakishly cute in my own artwork. I take from what is going on around me and that is the case for most artists. I have a twin brother but I can always remember wondering what it would be like to have an identical twin. Freaky! I don't think I could have handled it. Glad we have our own interests (except in a way we are very similar). As far as the cute imagery- I just like the idea of this fake happiness, but at the same time people CAN achieve this weird and twisted warmth from the things and events that take place around said person (myself). My life is generally pretty grand and good. My music is enlightening and really sets the tone for how I view the world around me, as cheesy as that may sound. But I generally think that someone listening to heavy metal and screaming 100% of the time must be tense and have a heavy life--or think they do. I have no desire to ever listen to anything heavier than say... Sonic Youth during "Dirty" because the album is just pure raw sex and not so much throat scaring screaming about nothing.

until then...