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Friday, September 9, 2011
Review a screen print artist!
Visit the http://www.mikeperrystudio.com/ Mike Perry is the author of “Pulled.” Write a response about an artist you discover there. Post your review here by Tuesday, September 13th at 9 am.
For a split second I thought, huh Steven Harrington, when did my ex boyfriend Full Sail graduate in Film become a famous screen printer, oh wait… Weird coincidence right? But the artist from Pulled that I enjoyed the most was Deanne Cheuk. I was impressed by her range of works and their mediums. She designs magazine layouts, fonts, collages, patterns, screen prints, and even household goods. She has a bold graphic design for her fonts and magazine layouts. They are chunky, funky, and full of character. To contrast this she also has very whimsical, wispy, and ephemeral designs in her fonts and patters and her art. Her style is very feminine and beautiful. She draws upon floral imagery for many of her works but also hard geometric designs as well. When it comes to human figures she tends to use a soft pastel color pallet but for her fonts and designs she tends to use more bold and saturated colors. She’s kind of all over the board with her design aesthetics but still has a unique sense of style that comes across very definitively.
What originally interested me in the work of Rachel Domm was the way she made one medium have the appearance of another medium. For example, in her pieces "Forever&Ever" and “Never Never Never”, she has given a silkscreen image the same qualities of needlepoint. It’s really clever because, even though they sound so different, these two methods have a lot in common (the “dots” that emerge in a screen print image when you zoom into it almost mimic the holes that the thread is woven into in needlepoint). What kept my interest was the way in which she merged words into the overall design. There seems to be a movement in the pieces even though the only thing present is a simple pattern, words, and one color in slightly varying shades. However, through the use of different shades of one color, the words seem to be ebbing and flowing, sometimes pushing forward and sometimes dropping into the background. Her overall composition is very balanced and the spacing in the pieces at once portrays a sense of firmness with an undercurrent of instability. It’s almost as if everything is locked into place and yet there is just enough space between each line that causes you to question if suddenly everything will begin drifting apart.
I looked at the work of Dan Funderburgh. I never thought of wall paper as being made by an artist but I loved it! A lot of times wall paper can appear tacky but I really loved the designs on Funderburgh's work. My favorite was his design "Central Park". It is a design of abstract flower type shapes surrounding different things one would find in the city such as a parking meter, etc. At first I didn't realize that that's what it was but once I fell in love with the work. I like the fact that it had some sort of meaning or quirkiness to it but was also aesthetically pleasing and something I would want in my room.
I came across Aesthetic Apparatus and throughout the prints theres a simplicity that caught my eye. The colors they choose are bold, varying between blues, reds and creme. The compositions of the prints are balanced and work well with the clean cut edges of the images. I researched other prints by them and they vary in style. They have a few posters/albums they made for bands. I especially liked the "Explosions in the Sky" with the layering of the head and hand. They only used three colors yet the album pops on its own. I also liked Mike Perrys' painting of "We are the Infinity of each other." The interaction of the colors are mesmerizing. There seems to be confusion yet an overall sense of tranquility among composition.
This website is so visually stimulating, it's a bit much at first. After sifting through images, I found this website called Landfill Editions. They have multiple artists on their site, including Mike Perry. The sell prints and these really cool books, some look like comic books while others are like little notebooks. I found an artist "Sister Arrow", who's work I thoroughly enjoy. The image entitled "zoo flask" is of particular interest to me, I love the way the plants look so simplistic yet contain the right amount of detail. The halftone texture to the image is also very appealing. These images have strong ties to botany and the natural world. I love both the style and colors used in Sister Arrow's artwork. I hope to be able to create similar texture and line in my screen printing.
I really fell for the work of Andrio Abero. He is a graphic designer that uses screen printing as his main medium. I really enjoyed his work, not just because he makes posters for some really awesome bands, but his use of color and space impressed me. Abero has a great talent for being able to fill up the page with a lot of different design aspects without it looking too crowded or overdone. An example of what I mean is he often uses the image of shattered glass or the look of wrinkled paper, or a grainy texture on top of an already complete looking image-but it totally works! His use of bold colors and obtuse sort of shapes feels like a throwback to the seventies, which I am sure he is aiming for. One of my personal favorites would be Death Cab 2. This is a 3 color screen print with the partial image of a female face. Even though parts of the face are missing and simple shapes are used instead of finer details, the image looks complete, and your eye automatically fills in the missing lines without hesitation. Here again he uses the faint image of shattered glass without any intrusion to the main focus.
From the artists that where available on the page of pulled, I enjoyed the work of Cody Hudson the most. Some of the things that came to my attention were the use of line, and shape and their combination in order to create an image that reminds the viewer of something that he/she would recognize. However, besides the images that are recognizable, he also has some that are just shapes put together in order to create a pleasing composition, and maybe symbolize something that needs further investigation so there is some kind of understanding from the viewer. A last thing that I enjoyed about Cody's work, was the fact that he also includes text in some of the works he produces. I think that text can sometimes make an image more interesting and give it more power towards the connotations the artist is trying to make.
I chose to look into Andrew Holder’s prints. His body of work I saw through dealt with the subject of animals, with elements from their natural environments and also he has many prints of man made city skylines, which I thought was interesting to have juxtaposing themes- it also reminded me of Taylor’s project about environmental issues of animals and their environment. Holder’ incorporates a variety of colors and shapes into his prints, although I said that he places animals with their natural environments I meant to explain that he pairs an animal such as a deer or a polar bear with elements that one would find in their habitat and creates these interesting poses and pairing in each print. I read over an interview that he had with Nuno Oliveira, in this interview Holder states that his personal work usually starts out with multiple thumbnail sketches of one idea. From there it becomes more like a puzzle. The puzzle pieces being the basic elements of design such as scale, value, shape, balance and so on. I enjoy the problem solving aspect of the process as frustrating as it can be at times. I can see a literal puzzle emerging through his prints and truly enjoyed learning about him. A few of my favorite prints I wanted to share is a pattern of peacocks that he made for ROXY and Two Bears Revisited.
I too found the website to be very bright and busy, and had some difficulties navigating through originally, but I ended up figuring it out. I looked into Maya Hayuk's works, which I found very vibrant and beautiful. She uses transparent inks and overlays them to create gorgeous abstract forms and to explore color. She often uses squares in her work, usually with an empty middle. The color runs from the box, much like paint would down a vertical surface. Her work seems playful, and she is representing breaking out of the box. She has other work that is incredibly sexual. One print, titled "Fuck Mountain" is of of large green triangle overlayed with the outlines of couples having sex. It shows her fearlessness in expressing her ideas and thoughts.
For the sake of time, I figured I would just pick an artist at random from the website. My review would be positive or negative based on how much I liked the artist. I picked Rinzen because I thought that was a pretty cool name and I checked out the website and decided this is a pretty cool artist. (Or to be more correct, a group of artists, so I don't know if talking about Rinzen can count for this blog post...) I am quite delighted to find that Rinzen is working on a collection of illustrations on children's dreams titled "The Monsters". And by the sample image it is going to be amazing. Rinzen's artwork leans towards the cutesy side (which a little investigation has led me to believe the cutesy probably belongs to Rilla Alexander) but there are works like Moonlight that are simply beautiful through the use of line and color. I decided to take a closer look and Rilla Alexander and I really like her work with the character "Sozi". It's one of those things you see that puts a smile on your face. Alexander appears to lean towards more a more simplistic setup, using color sparingly and selectively, and I like that. I sometimes feel like just because we have color options doesn't mean we need to go all willy-nilly with it.
An artist that i discovered from this website was Keetra Dean Dixon. What originally drew me to further explore her website was a piece called "What if". After looking at more of what she's done, I noted this was really the only piece she's done like this. The rest of what she does incorporates much typography and color. "What if" is in a scheme of all pink and reminds me of a distorted rose.
On Dixon's website you will also find excerpts from "The Objects of Codependency". These are photos that have been altered in photoshop to reflect an object as if it were two conjoined at the bottom. That may not be the best explanation, but picture a double sided spoon. That is the concept. She explores this concept with things like glasses, balloons that haven't been blown up yet, shoes, and (my personal favorite) a cigarette with filters on both ends. Though I'm not a hundred percent certain what Dixon is trying to get across in this piece, I think I like it for the mere precision. I am only just being introduced to photo shop now, but the element of reality behind these photos makes me question whether she DID truly manipulate the photos or the objects.
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For a split second I thought, huh Steven Harrington, when did my ex boyfriend Full Sail graduate in Film become a famous screen printer, oh wait… Weird coincidence right? But the artist from Pulled that I enjoyed the most was Deanne Cheuk. I was impressed by her range of works and their mediums. She designs magazine layouts, fonts, collages, patterns, screen prints, and even household goods. She has a bold graphic design for her fonts and magazine layouts. They are chunky, funky, and full of character. To contrast this she also has very whimsical, wispy, and ephemeral designs in her fonts and patters and her art. Her style is very feminine and beautiful. She draws upon floral imagery for many of her works but also hard geometric designs as well. When it comes to human figures she tends to use a soft pastel color pallet but for her fonts and designs she tends to use more bold and saturated colors. She’s kind of all over the board with her design aesthetics but still has a unique sense of style that comes across very definitively.
What originally interested me in the work of Rachel Domm was the way she made one medium have the appearance of another medium. For example, in her pieces "Forever&Ever" and “Never Never Never”, she has given a silkscreen image the same qualities of needlepoint. It’s really clever because, even though they sound so different, these two methods have a lot in common (the “dots” that emerge in a screen print image when you zoom into it almost mimic the holes that the thread is woven into in needlepoint). What kept my interest was the way in which she merged words into the overall design. There seems to be a movement in the pieces even though the only thing present is a simple pattern, words, and one color in slightly varying shades. However, through the use of different shades of one color, the words seem to be ebbing and flowing, sometimes pushing forward and sometimes dropping into the background. Her overall composition is very balanced and the spacing in the pieces at once portrays a sense of firmness with an undercurrent of instability. It’s almost as if everything is locked into place and yet there is just enough space between each line that causes you to question if suddenly everything will begin drifting apart.
I looked at the work of Dan Funderburgh. I never thought of wall paper as being made by an artist but I loved it! A lot of times wall paper can appear tacky but I really loved the designs on Funderburgh's work. My favorite was his design "Central Park". It is a design of abstract flower type shapes surrounding different things one would find in the city such as a parking meter, etc. At first I didn't realize that that's what it was but once I fell in love with the work. I like the fact that it had some sort of meaning or quirkiness to it but was also aesthetically pleasing and something I would want in my room.
I came across Aesthetic Apparatus and throughout the prints theres a simplicity that caught my eye. The colors they choose are bold, varying between blues, reds and creme. The compositions of the prints are balanced and work well with the clean cut edges of the images. I researched other prints by them and they vary in style. They have a few posters/albums they made for bands. I especially liked the "Explosions in the Sky" with the layering of the head and hand. They only used three colors yet the album pops on its own. I also liked Mike Perrys' painting of "We are the Infinity of each other." The interaction of the colors are mesmerizing. There seems to be confusion yet an overall sense of tranquility among composition.
This website is so visually stimulating, it's a bit much at first. After sifting through images, I found this website called Landfill Editions. They have multiple artists on their site, including Mike Perry. The sell prints and these really cool books, some look like comic books while others are like little notebooks. I found an artist "Sister Arrow", who's work I thoroughly enjoy. The image entitled "zoo flask" is of particular interest to me, I love the way the plants look so simplistic yet contain the right amount of detail. The halftone texture to the image is also very appealing. These images have strong ties to botany and the natural world. I love both the style and colors used in Sister Arrow's artwork. I hope to be able to create similar texture and line in my screen printing.
I really fell for the work of Andrio Abero. He is a graphic designer that uses screen printing as his main medium. I really enjoyed his work, not just because he makes posters for some really awesome bands, but his use of color and space impressed me. Abero has a great talent for being able to fill up the page with a lot of different design aspects without it looking too crowded or overdone. An example of what I mean is he often uses the image of shattered glass or the look of wrinkled paper, or a grainy texture on top of an already complete looking image-but it totally works! His use of bold colors and obtuse sort of shapes feels like a throwback to the seventies, which I am sure he is aiming for. One of my personal favorites would be Death Cab 2. This is a 3 color screen print with the partial image of a female face. Even though parts of the face are missing and simple shapes are used instead of finer details, the image looks complete, and your eye automatically fills in the missing lines without hesitation. Here again he uses the faint image of shattered glass without any intrusion to the main focus.
From the artists that where available on the page of pulled, I enjoyed the work of Cody Hudson the most. Some of the things that came to my attention were the use of line, and shape and their combination in order to create an image that reminds the viewer of something that he/she would recognize. However, besides the images that are recognizable, he also has some that are just shapes put together in order to create a pleasing composition, and maybe symbolize something that needs further investigation so there is some kind of understanding from the viewer. A last thing that I enjoyed about Cody's work, was the fact that he also includes text in some of the works he produces. I think that text can sometimes make an image more interesting and give it more power towards the connotations the artist is trying to make.
I chose to look into Andrew Holder’s prints. His body of work I saw through dealt with the subject of animals, with elements from their natural environments and also he has many prints of man made city skylines, which I thought was interesting to have juxtaposing themes- it also reminded me of Taylor’s project about environmental issues of animals and their environment. Holder’ incorporates a variety of colors and shapes into his prints, although I said that he places animals with their natural environments I meant to explain that he pairs an animal such as a deer or a polar bear with elements that one would find in their habitat and creates these interesting poses and pairing in each print. I read over an interview that he had with Nuno Oliveira, in this interview Holder states that his personal work usually starts out with multiple thumbnail sketches of one idea. From there it becomes more like a puzzle. The puzzle pieces being the basic elements of design such as scale, value, shape, balance and so on. I enjoy the problem solving aspect of the process as frustrating as it can be at times. I can see a literal puzzle emerging through his prints and truly enjoyed learning about him. A few of my favorite prints I wanted to share is a pattern of peacocks that he made for ROXY and Two Bears Revisited.
I too found the website to be very bright and busy, and had some difficulties navigating through originally, but I ended up figuring it out. I looked into Maya Hayuk's works, which I found very vibrant and beautiful. She uses transparent inks and overlays them to create gorgeous abstract forms and to explore color. She often uses squares in her work, usually with an empty middle. The color runs from the box, much like paint would down a vertical surface. Her work seems playful, and she is representing breaking out of the box. She has other work that is incredibly sexual. One print, titled "Fuck Mountain" is of of large green triangle overlayed with the outlines of couples having sex. It shows her fearlessness in expressing her ideas and thoughts.
For the sake of time, I figured I would just pick an artist at random from the website. My review would be positive or negative based on how much I liked the artist. I picked Rinzen because I thought that was a pretty cool name and I checked out the website and decided this is a pretty cool artist. (Or to be more correct, a group of artists, so I don't know if talking about Rinzen can count for this blog post...) I am quite delighted to find that Rinzen is working on a collection of illustrations on children's dreams titled "The Monsters". And by the sample image it is going to be amazing. Rinzen's artwork leans towards the cutesy side (which a little investigation has led me to believe the cutesy probably belongs to Rilla Alexander) but there are works like Moonlight that are simply beautiful through the use of line and color.
I decided to take a closer look and Rilla Alexander and I really like her work with the character "Sozi". It's one of those things you see that puts a smile on your face. Alexander appears to lean towards more a more simplistic setup, using color sparingly and selectively, and I like that. I sometimes feel like just because we have color options doesn't mean we need to go all willy-nilly with it.
I loved the "Public Works Collaborative" works. The giant pink blob really caught my eye and made me want to see it closer...and closer....
An artist that i discovered from this website was Keetra Dean Dixon. What originally drew me to further explore her website was a piece called "What if". After looking at more of what she's done, I noted this was really the only piece she's done like this. The rest of what she does incorporates much typography and color. "What if" is in a scheme of all pink and reminds me of a distorted rose.
On Dixon's website you will also find excerpts from "The Objects of Codependency". These are photos that have been altered in photoshop to reflect an object as if it were two conjoined at the bottom. That may not be the best explanation, but picture a double sided spoon. That is the concept. She explores this concept with things like glasses, balloons that haven't been blown up yet, shoes, and (my personal favorite) a cigarette with filters on both ends. Though I'm not a hundred percent certain what Dixon is trying to get across in this piece, I think I like it for the mere precision. I am only just being introduced to photo shop now, but the element of reality behind these photos makes me question whether she DID truly manipulate the photos or the objects.
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