Studio Journal Entry#9

What I did to my parents' bathroom

So for drawing class we had to "extend line out into the environment", so i decided to make a grid out of my parents' bathroom.  It was pretty funny, and it also kinda pissed my parents off :O).  I think it sort of transformed the space in a way- it turned something so "homey", like a bathroom in a house, into a sort of industrialized, structural, formal space.  WOOoOOOoooooo0oooo0o0o

I'm gonna stretch a new canvas and work on it this week- FINALLY.  This is the busy part of the semester so I don't have as much time to produce as I did in September.  No excuses, though.  

I've been looking at Cessily Brown lately.  I really like her in a weird way.  I figure she's a good artist to be looking at when doing landscapes in the style I am ultimately aiming for.  Some of them have a stamp-like quality which reminds me of my use of paper towels as a sort of paint brush.  I get a destruction vibe from her paintings.  The majority of them have a centralized, sort of cluster of paint that is very abstract.  You are still able to recognize the painting as a landscape, but the finer details are lost in her brush strokes.  I really appreciate how simultaneously descriptive and NON descriptive her paintings are.  This is something I could work towards for my next painting.  This is the picture I want to work from next, and I think looking toward Cessily Brown is a great reference for me: 

  

This is my grandma's house after the hurricane.  I really need to plan this out and really consider the surface of my canvas and the manner in which I paint.  

Cessily Brown

I read this article about Brown online to get a better feel for who she is as an artist.  It's called "The Aura of an Expanded Painter", by Nicola Trezzi. Here's the link: 

http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=articolo_det&id_art=268&det=ok&title=CECILY-BROWN

I like the fact that her paintings "represent a fragment of a more complex situation".  With painting, you don't always have to be completely representational.  This is something I am battling with.  I can give just a litttlllee bit of information without revealing the whole.  Does that make sense? probably not.  Essentially, I think I can convey my point by just exposing a fragment of my "complex situation" (or overall thesis idea...).  

GOALS

Get on with it.