SA 3602B - Studio Seminar

Sam Wagter 250972027

Tubes.... Why?

Exploration of line, entanglement
Significance of a tube
-worms, parasite
-organs
-yarn, rope, knots
-simple, modern art

Gerard Pas - Broken Body @ Mcintosh Gallery
Thursday Jan 23

Disability and the Boogie Woogie

-Large hand paintings, primary colours
-Crutch vs Broadway Boogie Woogie

I really enjoyed this exhibition. The simplistic colour scheme of red yellow and blue spoke to my style and interest in the primary colours. I felt very inspired from the pieces.

The connection to the Broadway BoogieWoogie

De Stijl Defined by Wikipedia

De Stijl (/də ˈstaɪl/; Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈstɛil]), Dutch for "The Style", also known as Neoplasticism, was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden. De Stijl consisted of artists and architects.[1] In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands.[2][3] Proponents of De Stijl advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; they simplified visual compositions to vertical and horizontal, using only black, white and primary colors.

Seminar Project Plans: Tube Installation

Plush Tubes displayed tangled and evaluated.
-Project colour ontop of white tubes
-> Video of moving colours or still image?

Exhibition Proposal Ideas:

We Were and Then We Weren't

The works I plan to produce for this exhibition will explore the ideas of light as a three-dimensional work once it removes itself from its source. It will also explore the connection between memories found in images, the intertwining comparison/metaphor of light and memory being one being, as well as the emotions behind it. I intend for my pieces to be meaningful abstractions of important images, drawing no similarity to the original to create a discussion of importance, permanence, and fragility such as a lightbulb or light source such as the sun. I want to explore the metaphor of light being memory, in the way they glow and dim over time, illuminate those surrounded by it, aid those people possessing it, and the effects on those when it is gone. To show this, I plan to suspend light sources (lightbulbs) above the ground, as though they are floating in mid-air, some illuminated and others not, to show an example of the fluidity of light and memory. I hope to entice the viewers into reflecting on their own memories fragility, and question the performance of their thoughts and memories, along with the effects of light.

Ideas to Think About

-Elastics to create bunches (clear)
-cut the tags off
-moving animation -> How?

Gerard Pas

Seminar Project 1

James Turrell

Exhibition Research

Final Critique Plans

unable to continue with sculpture installation due to COVID-19

-Looking to Neoplasticism, simplistic colour and form
-Tubes are simplistic in nature, complex in arrangement
-Red Blue and Yellow white and black
-series of small pieces, repetition
-exploring the repeated image, similar to watercolour drawings done earlier this year
-Many of my pieces have been focused on tubes recently, what does a series of repeated tubes show rather than many different art pieces
-changes of colour and rotation, how does this effect the composition, perception of form
-what happens to the paintings apart from eachother versus together
-How to display?

Piet Mondrian

In Progress