Gavin got lost, but I'm glad he made it in time for his presentation. What are your thoughts?
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Dominic Halley-Roarke
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I enjoyed Gavin's work - it has a purity to it; it just seems to exist for the pure sensual pleasure of the forms and colors. Refreshing to see this with only a minimal, but plausible attempt to give it social significance (this was his reference to the under-appreciated craftsmen who use this material in industrial production). His comments on the appeal of using toxic materials at the end of his presentation were interesting. I've seen this desire to make art-making dangerous expressed by other artists (for example one who made large sculptures from whole trees with a chain saw). I wonder what is represents or what the motivation is for it; it seems to come mostly from male artists (in my experience).
I really enjoyed the graphic nature of Gavins work. I think that it is something special when someone can use manufactured materials such as the decals and the pinstriping and really take it out of its contex and make it look original. i also admire his work methods: how he just bought the car painting materials and for the first time tried it and made it work. i really wasnt drawn to his sculpture as much as the paintings with the exception of the louis vutton horn piece. there was something about it that jsut screemed MIAMI to me.
the pure aesthetic appeal of gavin's pinstriping pieces was much to my liking. it was vibrant but orderly and the colors that were pasted next to one another seemed to make sense. i particularly enjoy the dialogue that using pinstripes can generate. the use of pinstripe stickers is something that is disappearing from today's autos and it's interesting to see them being recycled in art. pinstripe painting, like gavin said, is definitely not as popular as it was in the 60s. but it seems that this artform is making a comeback among chopper riders/builders. usually pinstripe designs are improved, and result in very intricate designs while being done completely freehand.
What kept going through my mind was how masculine his work is...from the materials to the ideas, his paintings were orderly and minimalistic. when i think of cars, i always think of men. i dont think many women would think to make a composition with pinstripes or decals...i know i wouldnt.(in fact for somepart of the class i couldnt remember what they were)so this was those works impressed me the most. his installations and sculptures were not as interesting as his paintings, but i did like the rawness of his sculptures... showing every part/material that goes into the work. i couldnt help but compare his work to ana mendieta and think how opposite their ideas were..both artists used a wide variety of materials to consturct, but hers were so natural and his so industrial. i find it an interesting contrast.
His pinstripes were what caught my eye the most. The colors were just so vibrant. Such a novel idea. I really wish that he would experiment and try to put the pinstripes on 3 dimensional surfaces so that the straightness of the stripes would be broken up by the contour of the 3 dimentional form (i'm talking a form that isn't just a flat piece of wood, but rather a manequin, for instance. weird, i know). His ideas for titles of pieces is interesting (song titles). His piece that struck me the most is "You can't get there from here". It seems simple and elementary from the outside due to the unfinished wood structure, but the inside was flashy and intriguing. I enjoyed that contrast. The disco balls, although cheezy added an interesting element to the piece. As for the other pieces, such as the paintings, i really must express that as an illustrator i find it hard to truly appreciate minimalist art. It just.. doesn't do anything for me because i feel that i need an object to look at. Just a personal aesthetic, i guess. But Gavin's work was VERY well done and thought out.
Gavin's work was pretty refreshing to me. The pinstripes came out so vibrant that they made the surface look like glass to me! It was so cool! I very much liked his work, especially as a graphic designer because he had such a structure to it and so said so much with so little. It remineded me a little of Villasante's work when he did stuff with the decals because of the simple use of color and how much it stood out. He was also an intelligent man to talk to. He always seemed to know exactly what he was doing and totally in control. HI ssculpture pieces were simple but I like that he experiments with something that he wasn;t trained in. It's like me messing with photography. II don;t know too much about it (I've only taken two classes) but I love messing around with it. I see him going into doing sculpture for a while and painting just a little less. It would be nice, like some of the students in class said, for him to do some printmaking again and see what kind of subject matter would be appropriate with that. Would he still try to use vibrant colors and song titles or would he make it more faded out and melancholic? I don't know but he was definately cool!
I think his presentation was positive.Gavin Perry has a very good interaction with the students. I don’t like Minimalism but I like the contrast of colors he uses and the industrial materials are different than the usual. I preferred his sculptures with architectural elements I found the octagonal piece with the disco balls insight interesting. I also like the flame design and the shades projected on the wall that make it looks tri-dimensional, with volume.
Finally a real artist! It was so refreshing to hear from someone who actually cares about putting in the personal effort to create QUALITY work. So many of the artist we have seen don't do their work themselves or have weak pieces because they think the idea is enough. Execution is important and Gavin exemplifies that. I liked Gavin's use of industrial objects and how he makes you look at the beauty in things like car detailing or in the carpets he makes part of his sculptures. He takes the concept of Duchamp in making you look at things you would normally look over but he actually created something as apposed to just placing other object in a different setting.
I really enjoyed Gavin's presentation. I loved everything except the paintings at the beginning. I liked his sculptures specially the one with the horn and the table and "you can't get there from here". Having these "berriers" around the actual sculpture is a great idea and makes the work very interesting. The pinstriping pieces were amazing. I liked the way he arranged the colors and how he managed to make everything work well together. I also liked the idea that they are not straight lines but they still look organized and uniform. This is the first time i see this kind of art and I admire his skills and tecniques.
gavin's work was colorful, all right. the first pieces that he showed are my favorite. as soon as i saw them i was like, "wow!" that's my kind of stuff. i love abstract expressionism (big fan of helen frankenthaler). it moves me, it's raw, it's subtle, it's peaceful and chaotic--i just love it--it's my passion. as for his other work: the sculptures were interesting, but they weren't visually appealing to me. i'm a fan of minimalism, but his stuff seemed gaudy to me, like the pieces where he used the cheap rugs. it's beautiful at first, but i can only look at it for so long. i liked the piece with the discoball the most out of all his sculptures. his pinstripes. yeah, interesting, for the 1st piece. after that, it was just more of the same stuff. i like the effect, but i don't know--the MAM has paintings in their permanent collection that look exactly like those, where there's a play with color and some colors jump out at you and some stay behind--except they weren't pinstripes from car-detailing. i guess i wasn't too impressed.
that doesn't mean that i don't like his ideas behind it. oh, and another thing--is "graphic quality" a good thing??? a lot of people here often comment on how they like the graphic quality of the work--that's why i ask. it just seems to me like a lot of stuff likes so much like design work that it loses it's fine art appeal. in that sense, i agree with gavin on the silkscreen technique. it's so damn flat is annoying. absolutely no depth of color.
My specialization is silkscreen, and yes, it can seem very flat, especially with water-based ink which tends to soak into the paper, and have a dullish texuture. Another problem is that the perceived color often changes from the wet ink to the dried. There are ways around this; non-water soluble inks can be used (but they are problematic for safety reasons). The altenative I have started using is to print with the standard water-based inks on specially prepared acetate, and sometimes to layer the sheets. This does alot to give depth.
11 comments:
I enjoyed Gavin's work - it has a purity to it; it just seems to exist for the pure sensual pleasure of the forms and colors. Refreshing to see this with only a minimal, but plausible attempt to give it social significance (this was his reference to the under-appreciated craftsmen who use this material in industrial production).
His comments on the appeal of using toxic materials at the end of his presentation were interesting. I've seen this desire to make art-making dangerous expressed by other artists (for example one who made large sculptures from whole trees with a chain saw). I wonder what is represents or what the motivation is for it; it seems to come mostly from male artists (in my experience).
I really enjoyed the graphic nature of Gavins work. I think that it is something special when someone can use manufactured materials such as the decals and the pinstriping and really take it out of its contex and make it look original. i also admire his work methods: how he just bought the car painting materials and for the first time tried it and made it work. i really wasnt drawn to his sculpture as much as the paintings with the exception of the louis vutton horn piece. there was something about it that jsut screemed MIAMI to me.
the pure aesthetic appeal of gavin's pinstriping pieces was much to my liking. it was vibrant but orderly and the colors that were pasted next to one another seemed to make sense. i particularly enjoy the dialogue that using pinstripes can generate. the use of pinstripe stickers is something that is disappearing from today's autos and it's interesting to see them being recycled in art. pinstripe painting, like gavin said, is definitely not as popular as it was in the 60s. but it seems that this artform is making a comeback among chopper riders/builders. usually pinstripe designs are improved, and result in very intricate designs while being done completely freehand.
http://www.kooltie.com/kafka/pinstriping.htm
http://www.4thgearstudios.com/pinstriping/pages/pinstriping%20(10).html
What kept going through my mind was how masculine his work is...from the materials to the ideas, his paintings were orderly and minimalistic. when i think of cars, i always think of men. i dont think many women would think to make a composition with pinstripes or decals...i know i wouldnt.(in fact for somepart of the class i couldnt remember what they were)so this was those works impressed me the most. his installations and sculptures were not as interesting as his paintings, but i did like the rawness of his sculptures... showing every part/material that goes into the work. i couldnt help but compare his work to ana mendieta and think how opposite their ideas were..both artists used a wide variety of materials to consturct, but hers were so natural and his so industrial. i find it an interesting contrast.
His pinstripes were what caught my eye the most. The colors were just so vibrant. Such a novel idea. I really wish that he would experiment and try to put the pinstripes on 3 dimensional surfaces so that the straightness of the stripes would be broken up by the contour of the 3 dimentional form (i'm talking a form that isn't just a flat piece of wood, but rather a manequin, for instance. weird, i know). His ideas for titles of pieces is interesting (song titles). His piece that struck me the most is "You can't get there from here". It seems simple and elementary from the outside due to the unfinished wood structure, but the inside was flashy and intriguing. I enjoyed that contrast. The disco balls, although cheezy added an interesting element to the piece. As for the other pieces, such as the paintings, i really must express that as an illustrator i find it hard to truly appreciate minimalist art. It just.. doesn't do anything for me because i feel that i need an object to look at. Just a personal aesthetic, i guess. But Gavin's work was VERY well done and thought out.
Gavin's work was pretty refreshing to me. The pinstripes came out so vibrant that they made the surface look like glass to me! It was so cool! I very much liked his work, especially as a graphic designer because he had such a structure to it and so said so much with so little. It remineded me a little of Villasante's work when he did stuff with the decals because of the simple use of color and how much it stood out. He was also an intelligent man to talk to. He always seemed to know exactly what he was doing and totally in control. HI ssculpture pieces were simple but I like that he experiments with something that he wasn;t trained in. It's like me messing with photography. II don;t know too much about it (I've only taken two classes) but I love messing around with it. I see him going into doing sculpture for a while and painting just a little less. It would be nice, like some of the students in class said, for him to do some printmaking again and see what kind of subject matter would be appropriate with that. Would he still try to use vibrant colors and song titles or would he make it more faded out and melancholic? I don't know but he was definately cool!
I think his presentation was positive.Gavin Perry has a very good interaction with the students. I don’t like Minimalism but I like the contrast of colors he uses and the industrial materials are different than the usual. I preferred his sculptures with architectural elements I found the octagonal piece with the disco balls insight interesting. I also like the flame design and the shades projected on the wall that make it looks tri-dimensional, with volume.
Finally a real artist! It was so refreshing to hear from someone who actually cares about putting in the personal effort to create QUALITY work. So many of the artist we have seen don't do their work themselves or have weak pieces because they think the idea is enough. Execution is important and Gavin exemplifies that.
I liked Gavin's use of industrial objects and how he makes you look at the beauty in things like car detailing or in the carpets he makes part of his sculptures. He takes the concept of Duchamp in making you look at things you would normally look over but he actually created something as apposed to just placing other object in a different setting.
I really enjoyed Gavin's presentation. I loved everything except the paintings at the beginning. I liked his sculptures specially the one with the horn and the table and "you can't get there from here". Having these "berriers" around the actual sculpture is a great idea and makes the work very interesting. The pinstriping pieces were amazing. I liked the way he arranged the colors and how he managed to make everything work well together. I also liked the idea that they are not straight lines but they still look organized and uniform. This is the first time i see this kind of art and I admire his skills and tecniques.
gavin's work was colorful, all right.
the first pieces that he showed are my favorite.
as soon as i saw them i was like, "wow!"
that's my kind of stuff.
i love abstract expressionism (big fan of helen frankenthaler). it moves me, it's raw, it's subtle, it's peaceful and chaotic--i just love it--it's my passion.
as for his other work: the sculptures were interesting, but they weren't visually appealing to me. i'm a fan of minimalism, but his stuff seemed gaudy to me, like the pieces where he used the cheap rugs. it's beautiful at first, but i can only look at it for so long. i liked the piece with the discoball the most out of all his sculptures.
his pinstripes. yeah, interesting, for the 1st piece. after that, it was just more of the same stuff. i like the effect, but i don't know--the MAM has paintings in their permanent collection that look exactly like those, where there's a play with color and some colors jump out at you and some stay behind--except they weren't pinstripes from car-detailing.
i guess i wasn't too impressed.
that doesn't mean that i don't like his ideas behind it.
oh, and another thing--is "graphic quality" a good thing???
a lot of people here often comment on how they like the graphic quality of the work--that's why i ask.
it just seems to me like a lot of stuff likes so much like design work that it loses it's fine art appeal.
in that sense, i agree with gavin on the silkscreen technique.
it's so damn flat is annoying.
absolutely no depth of color.
My specialization is silkscreen, and yes, it can seem very flat, especially with water-based ink which tends to soak into the paper, and have a dullish texuture. Another problem is that the perceived color often changes from the wet ink to the dried. There are ways around this; non-water soluble inks can be used (but they are problematic for safety reasons). The altenative I have started using is to print with the standard water-based inks on specially prepared acetate, and sometimes to layer the sheets. This does alot to give depth.
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