Artists mentioned by Jennifer Wroblewski

I thought I'd link to images of some of the artists Jennifer Wroblewski mentioned as influences.

Jasper Johns we've mentioned on this page before, and DaVinci many of you will know. Other important ones:



Joseph Beuys (1921-1986,) a german artist important for his drawings, performances, politically reflective conceptual sculpture (among other things- a very rich and complex figure.) A great book is the 1993 Philadelphia Museum of Art Drawing catalogue.
See this good Biography from the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis.)




Cy Twombly (1928-present,) works for sale on Artnet give you a starting point- there is also a good one on display at the Yale Gallery. Considered a painter because he works frequently on canvas, his work is centered on drawing-markmaking. He has done drawings on other surfaces including chalkboards and paper.


Karen Kilimnick (1957-present,) A link to her first survey at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 2007. A very prominent contemporary artist, draws on popular imagery and nostalgic romanticism, among other things.



Marlene McCarty (1957-present)
Her gallery, Sikkema Jenkins, is located in Chelsea, NYC.
This blog has a great set of images. Giant pen drawings, larger than life sized figures, semi-nudes.

Troy Brauntuch

Troy Brauntuch makes eerie, ethereal conte drawings on cotton. They are reminiscent of old photographs in their fuzziness and intimacy and kind of give me nightmares about lives I may have once lived or may be living in another lighter dimension.





At Friedrich Petzel

Applicants for Drawing Position

Here are the web pages for the artists who are applying to teach at Wesleyan. These four have been selected from an enormous group.  It will be interesting to see them all speak.  Remember: lectures begin in Zilkha 106 at 4:15, followed by thesis crits and then crits in the drawing studio.

Tuesday, March 25: Jennifer Wroblewski

Tuesday, April 1: Tamie Beldue

Thursday, April 3: Julia Randall

Tuesday, April 8: Juan Perdiguero

 

demetrie tyler

So sometimes I get lost on the internet (like, I just follow links and half an hour later end up thinking "how did I get here?!"). Anyway, as a result of a recent session of that, I found this guy, demetrie tyler. He's an ITP graduate (Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program) and he currently has a piece in the MoMA show Design and the Elastic Mind. It's called Hypothetical Drawings About the End of the World.

From his page about the piece:

"This software looks for conversational language on the web based on a search query and generates large-format social landscapes using a set of programmatic drawing assets."

I think that means he wrote a program that makes a drawing, and based on the videos on his homepage I think a machine makes the drawing (check that out here).

I also found this video of a talk he gave on the drawings.

dead dog art

A Costa Rican artist caught a starving dog off the streets and tied it up in his gallery where it died of starvation after a few days. Not surprisingly, animal groups are outraged and many people are asking if it is art.

Link to the story here:

http://www.popgive.com/2008/03/since-when-starving-dog-to-death-is.htm

there are a lot of comments but it's interesting and sometimes scary to skim through them.

Dirty Car Drawings

I randomly came across this on the internet, and I think it's pretty cool. This guy Scott Wade makes drawings in the dust on the rear window of his car. I don't think the drawings are particularly good, but I think the range of value he achieves just by brushing dust off his car is pretty amazing. It's also interesting to look at the deterioration of the drawings over time as the dust gets washed off by rain.

Robert Longo- Incredible Charcoal

"Men in Cities" artist Emma copied. All of these on this website are more recent works, all charcoal and graphite. Read the sizes below the images.  Metro Pictures gallery is in Chelsea, NYC.

William Kentridge- Drawing Videos

This video, illegally copied by bringing a camera into the Venice Biennale, or so it seems, is now on YouTube. Does that make it illegal for us to share? There are many Kentridge videos online- check Deterioration and others that appear alongside- link up anything particularly good.

Also see this article about him in Animation World Magazine. Described as "Arguably South Africa's most famous artist."