Throwing Exercise: The only requirement here is that you make a piece 15" or higher that is thrown on the wheel or from thrown parts. You can throw multiple small forms and attach, you can throw and attach coils for a continuous form, you can make piles, you can throw and cut and assemble, throw and alter and assemble, stack etc. Be imaginative.+M+Lucero.jpg)
Check out Sandy Brown's work below at this link. . .
http://www.ceramicart.com.au/articles/CAP66.htm
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I was really unimpressed by the lecture today, I htought that the wok was more about technological advances rather than art. I felt that with the right instruction, anyone could have done what she did.I think that although her ideas were very creative, they were also just so original, because they were things many people would including myself would not create and then proceed to consider "art." I was very disappointed because I always look forward to the exhibitions, and have attended almost everyone since I have been to Delaware, but I do not see myself going to check this one out.
The artwork Kartz Ucci lectured about really isn’t my conception of “art.” Although I have no formal training in art history, I have been exposed to artwork in museums, the artwork of my peers in various ceramic classes, or artwork shown or explained to me by past ceramic instructors. Ucci had many innovative ideas about what art was to her, i.e. sound bites/layered songs and video clips, but personally I do not consider that to be art. Of course there will be people in disagreement with this opinion, but I’m just not buying it this time. I understood what she was trying to say with the clip on the treatment of the elderly in the mining town, but I think there were other options she could have took that made it more of a piece of artwork. Run Lola Run was very interesting, and it seemed as though it was very time consuming to edit together, but again not art. Overall, I believe Ucci was very technologically savvy, has conceptualized thinking, but just misses the mark regarding the “art” aspect of it all.
In response to the music, I liked the idea of what she did more than the actual result. The three hundred something songs with sad in the title could have been great if it didn't sound like garbage (to me). I wish she would have done a bit more work on the layering instead of just playing all the songs and once and then slowly eliminating them.
Cry me a river was just as agonizing to listen to. Maybe someone liked it, I sure didn't...
The dual projections were neat, with the mining road and the sharpening knife. I liked the combination of visual and aural stimuli.
Without knowing the history of the mining town, the response piece with the empty wheelchair being dragged would be rather meaningless. However, knowing the story of the town I found the piece to be very moving.
Her idea of acquiring space "country -> state -> city -> town -> house -> bathtub -> cells" was very fascinating to me. I wish she would have shown us more than "GET THE FUCK OFF MY DRIVEWAY"
The poems by neruda were pretty cool. I did like those, along with the text art.
I found the Run lola run remake interesting but lacking. Perhaps having the frames as they were but playing select quotes over the movie would have achieved a more positive response. Even some cool music would have sufficed, but without sound I found it lacking.
See everyone in class,
Dom
P.S. how many people have a 15 incher yet?
While it is always interesting to hear an artist talk about their work, I’ve found that I’m more of a museum person. I like being able to go where I can see an object and create my own opinion of what the artist is trying to say rather then have them tell me. The most interesting about the lecture was not one of her pieces, but rather the author that she mentioned that was the guy to read when dealing with the idea of taking someone else’s art, manipulating is, and making it your own. I never realized that this type of art had a community following.
The aspect of Kartz Ucci’s work that I enjoyed was her manipulation of text and words, taking trite phrases used everyday and forming them into art. I liked the exhibition of her, “I Want To Be A Lighthouse Keeper,” piece mainly because of the difficulty of reading it, not because the letters were hard to distinguish, but because to read it she makes you uncomfortable by having you stare into a neon light in a darkened room.
(sorry, i couldn't figure out how to post on the main page)
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