Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Jantje Visscher
Jantje Visscher’s intent is to draw the viewer into the play between shadow and light. Drawing from nature and organic forms, she focuses on geometric lines and curvaceous shapes. Ms. Visscher creates repetitive and intricate forms that are reminiscent of the relationship between human instinct and environment. She also draws on optical illusions to create a mysterious aura and challenges the viewer’s perceptions of light, shadow, and space.
Jantje Visscher has received her training at the University of California, Berkeley and subsequently earned a Masters Degree in Fine Arts. Ms. Visscher is the recipient of a Bush Fellowship, an National Endowment for the Arts, Arts Midwest National Endowment for the Arts, and two State Arts Board grants. Ms. Visscher is a founding member of two artist’s foundations: the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota and the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts. She is based in the Midwest and is currently involved in the arts community as a working artist, painter, printmaker, photographer, sculptor, teacher and mentor.
Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts: http://www.trafficzoneart.com/artists/visscher/default.htm
Jantje Visscher: http://www.jantevisscher.com/
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
old work revisited
these are paintings i did several quarters ago...i am not sure what to do with them...any ideas?
Antino Guadi
Last quarter I missed a fieldtrip and needed to make up some work for credit. I found a review for this DVD and asked Robbyn if it was ok to review it instead. This occurred at the time I was finishing up my tree stump/bear den. Karen
Antino Guadi
The dvd was amazing…when I was first in one of Mike Grady’s classes, he talking about his artistic ancestors…I had no idea what he was talking about at the time until he explained that as he had studied he had found artist that were very similar in style to him, or he was similar to them, and that it happens to all artists and we adopt them as ancestors…I really didn’t think of any at the time but now…
I shall have to add Mr. Gaudi
I really liked most of his stuff, but some more so than others. The really simple work that he did with just white, like a residence he had done for an order of nuns, where he had just worked with the space and columns. And ceilings in some residences and stairways in town, where the ceilings were just white, but the surface was broken by what looked like a large palette knife that had scraped designs, like spirals and the like into it to show depth. Also the metal and wood work used for stairways, gates, railings, and balconies.
The best was how he was able to add texture to his work by his use of building materials. His use of brick, glass, tile, and even cement, to bring a look of the natural to something that was clearly not naturally occurring. The way he raised and lowered the roofline (in the first church he built) to match the tree line of the area. The use of columns as trees is probably the most amazing.
It would have been interesting to have seen the last church finished. But what he had done was remarkable. They said that he died by being run over by a train in front of the church, and at the time people just thought that it was just a little old man in ratty cloths. He seems to have live a life that for his art and his god, and not at all for himself. It seems that he took no credit for his work in life. He certainly left a great deal behind to speak for his love.
Remarkable work
Antino Guadi
The dvd was amazing…when I was first in one of Mike Grady’s classes, he talking about his artistic ancestors…I had no idea what he was talking about at the time until he explained that as he had studied he had found artist that were very similar in style to him, or he was similar to them, and that it happens to all artists and we adopt them as ancestors…I really didn’t think of any at the time but now…
I shall have to add Mr. Gaudi
I really liked most of his stuff, but some more so than others. The really simple work that he did with just white, like a residence he had done for an order of nuns, where he had just worked with the space and columns. And ceilings in some residences and stairways in town, where the ceilings were just white, but the surface was broken by what looked like a large palette knife that had scraped designs, like spirals and the like into it to show depth. Also the metal and wood work used for stairways, gates, railings, and balconies.
The best was how he was able to add texture to his work by his use of building materials. His use of brick, glass, tile, and even cement, to bring a look of the natural to something that was clearly not naturally occurring. The way he raised and lowered the roofline (in the first church he built) to match the tree line of the area. The use of columns as trees is probably the most amazing.
It would have been interesting to have seen the last church finished. But what he had done was remarkable. They said that he died by being run over by a train in front of the church, and at the time people just thought that it was just a little old man in ratty cloths. He seems to have live a life that for his art and his god, and not at all for himself. It seems that he took no credit for his work in life. He certainly left a great deal behind to speak for his love.
Remarkable work
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