A lot of things…
…on my mind as the semester has finally drawn to a close.
First of all, the majority of my friends are graduating. And I am sad that I am not graduating with them. The knee thing has caused me to fall back in the course of my studies, and now I will graduate a year later. This semester I have seen them all put up their shows in the gallery and rejoiced in their amazing work. As each show arrived and then descended from the gallery walls, I have become more and more proud of my wonderful friends who have worked so hard and succeeded so well.
Yet, while I am overwhelmingly happy for my graduating peers, I am observing some of the fears they are experiencing and taking them to heart. What am I going to do with my life now? I always knew that I wanted to teach, but how I go about getting to that eventuality can take so many routes….Do I get a Masters in Education? Or continue working as an artist and get my Masters in Painting or Photography? I am still thinking about all of this and seeking for the Lord’s direction over the next year.
Speaking of shows, I have been narrowing in on my own senior thesis show ideas, and come up with one solution that has me intrigued. I am going to create photography and painting diptychs (in a similar vein to the header on my blog) but with an actual painting. Both the print and the painting will be on panel and they will contain similar colors and compositional elements. The paintings will be like the ones I have in the previous post….I am trying to explore ideas of reality and abstraction…what do we lose when we abstract, what do we gain? Can we see a formal similarity between the actions the paint takes and actions that are already present in the world around us. Which one is more real? The painting, since it is a physical object that would not exist unless it was made by human hand, or a photograph of a real object or space? I am trying to think of more areas where I can stretch these ideas….
In case you missed it, or died, or I didn’t talk to you, or I haven’t seen you or something. I am showing work in my first professional gallery show. In Los Angeles. On Sunset Blvd. Cool, no?
This is a link to the website with the online gallery of pictures, note that one of my paintings (the one on the bottom in the picture below) was photographed REALLY badly by whoever did the documentation, and so the colors are WAY off. This is what they actually look like:
If you get a chance and you just happen to be in LA, drop in and see the show, there is some great work in it.
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