ARTIST RESEARCH
Music Jeremyville This piece of art by Jeremyville was inspired by the “Bon Iver” song “Skinny Love” Jereymyville talks about his work: “Bon Iver founder Justin Vernon spent a winter in his father’s cabin in Wisconsin, in the State’s northwoods, recovering from an illness. Here he wrote and recorded most of this first album in a very lo fi way, and it was this ethic of independence, and his singular, evocative vision
that first attracted me to his music. It is a way of working that resonates with me, as it’s close to the way I like to work, alone with my sketchbook late at night, listening to music. If I could find a winter cabin to escape to, I think I would.” I wanted to draw a moment from those Wisconsin woods, and to try and evoke the feeling of that desolate winter alone in the cabin, trying to somehow find a way through.
Music Frank Chimero This piece of art by Frank Chimero was inspired by the band “The National” song “So Far Around the Bend” Frank talks about his work: ”She runs. It’s been happening her whole life: she probably ran away to New York in the first place, only to run away later from the man that loved her. She skirts responsibility, embraces slackerdom, wishes for 10-years-ago, then takes a bath and laughs it off, even if she really wants
to cry. “Nobody knows where you are.” Maybe she doesn’t even know herself...”
Music Julia Rothman This piece of art by Julia Rothman was inspired by the bands “TV on the Radio” song “Dancing Choose” Julia talks about her work: “For my poster I just started drawing while listening to the song on repeat. I wound up with a big patterned ball full of craziness. The music is very rhythmic and fast paced. At first the ball was going to be the head of a figure- the man described in the song. But instead, I decided to
make it a treetop so it felt like a huge buzzing mass stuck on something very static.”
Music Jon Burgerman This piece of art by Jon Burgerman was inspired by the bands “Devendra Banhart” song “A Sight To Behold” Jon talks about his work: “I left my pens and a sketchbook locked in a drawer with a tiny dictaphone playing the songover and over on a loop. I left and had a fine meal of golden corn and non-dairy butter whilst lookingout of my apartment window to the park over the road. A gentle breeze made the
bare branches of the trees clatter and sway. A woman was walking a small dog, it kept straying from the path, catching a scent and wanting to follow it. I finished my corn and diligently washed up my bowl and placed it in the drying rack. When I returned to the drawer I’d found then pens had drawn absolutely nothing at all.”
Animals Allison Kunath Allison Kunath is a visual artist currently living and working in Los Angeles.
feminine. Balance is the desired outcome, beauty + play are the current vehicles of exploration.
Although she can draw other shapes, right now, triangles are her thing. Creation + connection are More specifically, she’s the most valuable exploring the geometric fragmentation of form and elements of her life. how our eyes respond to the simplification. This style of abstracted realism gives her a chance to play with the architectural, as well as the organic... the hard, as well as the soft... the masculine, as well as the
Animals Sayaka Ganz Sayaka Ganz was born in Yokohama and identifies a strong Japanese influence in her work, even though she grew up in several different countries. During her BFA studies at Indiana University Bloomington she explored various media, from ceramics to printmaking, before determining sculpture and welding as her expressive vehicles of choice. Her fascination with animals in movement
permeates this collection. “When you look at the piece from the distance you see the form of the horse galloping, but when you get up close you start to see that individual objects were used�, she writes. Sayaka is currently based in Indiana, where she teaches drawing and design at IU-Purdue University Fort Wayne in Indiana and welds figures from steel, of humans and other animals.
Animals Robert Bissell Robert Bissell was raised in rural Somerset, England, and received an MFA in design from Royal College of Art, London. Bissell started documenting his surroundings at a young age, and his love of art, rural life, Celtic legends and panoramic landscapes has never lessened. After graduating, he moved to San Francisco to start a successful career in retail advertising. Fifteen years later, he decided to
devote all his time to painting. His paintings explore the idea that animals have a metaphysical importance to our own spiritual well-being. In a world devoid of animals, we as humans would be compelled to reconsider our relation to nature. While whimsical at first glance, there is underlying tension and precariousness in his images. Bissell currently lives in Northern California and regularly exhibits in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe.
Animals Page Title Sarah Esteje, better Known As ABADIDABOU, Began her artistic career by studying graphic design at LISAA (Higher Institute of Applied Arts). After a year at Les Ateliers de Sèvres she Studied photography at the Gobelins in Paris, from qui she gets her appeal for hyperrealism. Purpose it is as an illustrator she blossomed, she is know Especially through her series of portraits of animals That She caries with high
accuracy using a blue Bic. The blue she uses is her trademark, she allows herself ALTHOUGH Some Infidelities: Rotring, colored pens, watercolors - hyperrealism Remains aim at the heart of her illustrations.
Religion Titian Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c. 1488/1490 – 27 August 1576), known in English as Titian, was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto, Republic of Venice). During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth. Recognized by his contemporaries as “The Sun Amidst Small Stars”
(recalling the famous final line of Dante’s Paradiso), Titian was one of the most versatile of Italian painters, equally adept with portraits, landscape backgrounds, and mythological and religious subjects. His painting methods, particularly in the application and use of color, would exercise a profound influence not only on painters of the Italian Renaissance, but on future generations of Western art. During the course of his long life, Titian’s artistic manner changed drastically but he retained a lifelong interest in color. Although his mature works may not contain the vivid, luminous tints of his early pieces, their loose brushwork and
subtlety of tone are without precedent in the history of Western painting. He was noted for his mastery of colour.
Religion Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, he has since been held as one of the greatest artists of all time. Despite mak-
ing few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci. A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence. His output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century.
Religion Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci; 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Re-
naissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of “unquenchable curiosity” and “feverishly inventive imagination”. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and “his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote”. Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.
Religion Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588) was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, most famous for large history paintings of both religious and mythological subjects, such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi. With Titian, who was at least a generation older, and Tintoretto, ten years older, he was one of the “great trio that dominated Venetian painting of the cinquecento” or 16th-
century late Renaissance. Veronese is known as a supreme colorist, and after an early period with Mannerist influence turned to a more naturalist style influenced by Titian. His most famous works are elaborate narrative cycles, executed in a dramatic and colorful style, full of majestic architectural settings and glittering pageantry. His large paintings of biblical feasts, crowded with figures, painted for the refectories of monasteries in Venice and Verona are especially famous, and he was also the leading Venetian painter of ceilings.
Technology Grant Barnhart Grant Barnhart’s compositions layer graphite and oil on panel. For this body of work, Barnhart chose to emphasize his graphite renderings, which are the most designed element of the work. Paint is used to offset the rigid structure of the drawings, adding a loose organic quality to the work. Barnhart amasses fragments of history and myth, reconstructing them into complex narratives that exploit the thin line
between the two. This chaotic melding of historic and mythical imagery results in startling new relationships and connections that begin to mirror our own saturated media environment. Barnhart’s compositions place particular emphasis on the absurdity of war and our obsession with technology. Throughout these compositions larger than life gods and monsters battle soldiers without resolution. In Barnhart’s work even Gods are vulnerable suggesting the fragility of our own belief systems as well as our passive acceptance of wars both real and imagined.
Technology Abelardo Morell Abelardo Morell’s photographs remind us that photography is more about how we see than the tools we use to create it. As we become ensconced with computer technology, more and more artists are returning to the past, working with processes and instruments more than one hundred years old. Morell is one of those artists who burst onto the scene with a series of images made with a camera obscura — a lensless camera most of-
Building inside a bedroom, Times Square onto the sterile walls of a Marriott hotel room, and a Morell takes an ordinary view of Brookline onto the room – his living room, walls and ceiling of his his son’s bedroom, a son’s bedroom, as trees hotel room — and and buildings interact with transforms it into a toy dinosaurs. These are camera by placing black extraordinary images plastic over all of the alter our perception of windows, leaving a 3/8″ reality and our placement hole through which the light passes. He then sets in it. up his view camera in the room, points it at the opposite wall, opens the lens and lets the image appear on the film over the next eight hours. The result of his endeavor is a magical world which fuses outdoor elements with domestic scenes, allowing the viewer to see the existing reality outside the window. Morell has transformed many rooms into cameras, recording the Empire State ten associated with Renaissance artists.
Technology Nick Veasey strong conceptual imagery and a no-nonsense ‘can do’ approach to projects. Such tenacity has resulted in unique large scale x-rays of buses and planes. He is motivated to explore what lies beneath the surface in a world obsessed with image and superficial looks. A man that peels back the layers to see what things are Before making this weird made of. Metaphors for but wonderful career path the images are many and varied and their context Nick worked in is very relevant in today’s Advertising and Design. This has resulted in society with the prevalence of surveillance the use of x-ray technology for security. A man with x-ray vision, Nick Veasey creates images that show what it is really like inside. Nick’s work with radiographic imaging equipment takes the x-ray to another level. Everyday objects are given another meaning and the layers and make-up of natural items are shown in fantastic detail.
The ethereal and fascinating images have collected a host of International awards. Nick Veasey’s personal
work has been shown in swanky galleries and sold to the masses in Ikea. A detailed understanding of scientific imaging has helped Nick make otherworldly short films and TV commercials. Collaborating with scientists and boffins to solve other scientific imaging issues is set to become an increasing distraction.
Technology Jud Turner Jud Turner talks about his work: Quantum physics tells us that apparently solid objects are comprised of vast empty spaces, populated by tiny particles whose individual relationships create the whole. And that a single particle can exist in two separate places during one moment in time. I explore such dichotomies in my sculpture. Using welded steel and found objects, I create artwork which embraces opposites — the tension between
humans and nature; the perils of balancing biology and technology; or the combination of ancient fossils with modern machinery. I also engage contradictions by the materials I choose — human forms which appear solid and realistic, but which were made with a delicate surface of thin wire, allowing the viewer to see through the figure; or by mixing the sense of scale in a piece, using large items alongside tiny pieces. I place a high value on craftsmanship and surface appearances. I try to balance realism with a stylization that allows me the freedom to push concepts into the deepest levels of the viewer’s perception. While my vision can tend towards the darker side of human nature, my work is infused
with a sense of humor which can make difficult subjects easier to approach. I have worked with found objects and welded steel for the past 16 years; my background and training was in drawing and painting. I enjoy of the process of making sculpture — finding objects which are re-purposed in my studio, its solitude, the intensive labor, and especially the way that making art affects how I view the world around me. I have many ideas for sculptures roaming through my imagination, but only those which operate on multiple levels of meaning and visual satisfaction are realized in the physical world.