Colorful Embroidery on Black and White Photos.

 Hi guys, I wanted to share this. Her art seems relevant to our current assignment of photography and sculpture.

2020 Article: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/09/victoria-villasana-embroidered-photographs/

2017 Article: https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/10/embroidered-vintage-photos-victoria-villasana/

Artist: Victoria Villasana

Yayoi Kusama

Tom Sachs 10 Bullets (A.B.K)

 

10 Bullets, #8: "ALWAYS BE KNOLLING". By Tom Sachs video here

Visiting Artist Lecture: Paul Mpagi Sepuya, 6:15PM, Tuesday, September 15, 2020

 

Meet the Artists | Paul Mpagi Sepuya video here

To access the Tuesday' Sept. 15th talk, 6:15PM join Zoom Meeting

https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/93924511495

Meeting ID: 939 2451 1495

Paul Mpagi Sepuya is represented by ​by Team (New York, Los Angeles), Document (Chicago) and ​Vielmetter Los Angeles. Document will present a solo booth by Paul Mpagi Sepuya in the Positions sector during Art Basel Miami Beach 2019. Camera and edit: Gillian Garcia Production: Coline Milliard and Jeanne-Salomé Rochat for Art Basel.

A slew of exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial and recent shows at the Guggenheim Museum and the Getty, have put Paul Mpagi Sepuya’s name on everyone’s lips. The Angelenoartist re-examines portrait photography’s formal and conceptual foundations, as well as its traditional tools: mirrors, black velvet, and darkrooms. Questions around the representation of the black and the queer body – be it his own or his friends’ and collaborators’ – also inform Sepuya’s sensitive and intimate body of work. He welcomed Art Basel in his Boyle Heights studio.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982, San Bernardino, CA) is an artist working in photography whose projects weave together histories and possibilities of portraiture, queer and homoerotic networks of production and collaboration, and the material and conceptual potential of blackness at the heart of the medium. His work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney and Guggenheim Museums, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Getty Museum and MOCA Los Angeles, among others. His work has been reviewed in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Art in America, and he was featured on the cover of ARTFORUM’s March 2019 issue. Sepuya has been in recent exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, New York, Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Barbican Centre, London, and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles. A survey of work from 2008 - 2018 was presented at CAM St. Louis and University of Houston Blaffer Art Museum, accompanied by a monograph published by CAM St. Louis and Aperture Foundation. He is Acting Associate Professor in Media Arts at the University of California San Diego.

https://www.paulsepuya.com

https://arts.ufl.edu/in-the-loop/events/visiting-artist-lecture-with-paul-mpagi-sepuya/

LESLIE HEWITT "READING ROOM" AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

 

LESLIE HEWITT "READING ROOM" AT PERROTIN NEW YORK video here

Leslie Hewitt

On the occasion of her solo exhibition at Perrotin New York (September 11 – October 26, 2019), Leslie Hewitt talks about Lewis Michaux, a Harlem bookseller and civil rights activist who inspired the show. She also explains her attraction to minimalism, and the connection between her photographic work and the Dutch still life paintings of the 16th and 17th century.

Artie Vierkant "Rooms Greet People by Name", Perrotin New York

 

Artie Vierkant "Rooms Greet People by Name", Perrotin New York video here

Artie Vierkant website here

Artie Vierkant uses augmented reality to put his art in your hands

By Drew Zeiba • March 13, 2018 

Brooklyn-based artist Artie Vierkant melds photography, commercial printing, and sculpture. For Vierkant, there is no real hierarchical distinction between art experienced in real life or in a photograph. In Vierkant’s post-digital world, 2-D and 3-D, image and object, original and copy, exist on a level playing field. He often takes photos of his installation, modifies them, and repurposes them as new works in and of themselves. 

Most recently, this has taken the form of an augmented reality (AR) app, Image Object (a term Vierkant termed in 2010 to describe work which “exist[s] somewhere between physical sculptures and altered documentation images”), released in conjunction with his exhibition Rooms greet people by name at Galerie Perrotin on the Lower East Side. Vierkant sat down with the Architect’s Newspaper to discuss the app, the boundaries between 2-D and 3-D, and what augmented reality means for the future of public space.

Read more here

Documenting Objects at Home for Photosculpture

 

For photosculpture projects artists often use original photographs to compose the sculpture and also, when completed, to document the sculpture. Since many artists are now not close to photo facilities here are three videos that go over tips for producing good photo documentation of objects/sculptures. The videos are here and here and here. 

Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

 Video here

An introduction to the art critic Walter Benjamin and his most influential essay, the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Including David Douglas's the Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction. Original Score by August Aghast

John Berger Ways of Seeing

Video here (optional viewing for Concepts and Strategies)

A BAFTA award-winning BBC series with John Berger, which rapidly became regarded as one of the most influential art programmes ever made. In the first programme, Berger examines the impact of photography on our appreciation of art from the past. Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. Berger's scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.