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."

Lucian Freud Etchings

A beautiful website from the MOMA show. As is quoted on the site, Freud says "Etching's not drawing exactly, but it's a sort of drawing." You can zoom in a great deal on the images, which is very satisfying. Freud is a very prominent British painter and printmaker.

Tara Donovan

In response to Chris Jordan/Running the Numbers, here is an artist who uses some of the same source material but transforms it entirely into something incredibly beautiful with more complex associations. Here is her gallery page at Ace, and a link for a show at the Hammer Museum in L.A.  The content of the work is entirely different, but worth comparing to Jordan's images.

Whitney Biennial

A quick preview of the new Whitney Biennial from the New York Times. Just a reminder of something everyone should see in New York if you get a chance, though not specifically related to drawing. A touchstone for contemporary artists- love it or hate it, it's all discussed and absorbed.

Running the Numbers

Check it out...even looking at the images on your computer screen will probably blow your mind. :)

Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait

This series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 410,000 paper cups used every fifteen minutes. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. The underlying desire is to emphasize the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.

My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is a work in progress, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned.

~chris jordan, Seattle, 2007

Tauba Auerbach

The blog needed some love.

Tauba Auerbach is a contemporary artist who I thought was somewhat of interest in regards to our process drawing/all-over composition assignment. Her work explores language as both a communicative and visual system. Her drawings often consist of letters, yet they forcefully and purposely deny the viewer the ability to read them or comprehend the work's meaning solely from a linguistic standpoint. Despite having words or letters, the works are strongly visual before they are legible, if at all. That being said, they are all beautifully crafted - with beautiful results - despite their heavy conceptual aspects, which I think is related to the purpose of the process/all-over assignment and, really, that type of drawing in general.


One of my favorite of her works is "Alphabetized Bible," which is well, exactly what it sounds like. Though the words are scrambled, the book is still recognizable as a Bible. There is also a strange relationship between the lists of letters and prayer.

Here is a great article from "Art in America" about Auerbach. I also encourage you all to visit her website. Aside from being visually exciting, it is conceptually intriguing in its relationship to her work in the use of both language and design to communicate to the visitor and direct him or her around. There is a good inventory of her work on the website that I really encourage you all to look at because it is all really beautiful and thought-provoking. Some more of my personal favorites that I find especially compelling:
      -Thirty Letters I
      -Uppercase Insides
      -Anagram I

Drawing on Hands

Not only can people draw on cats but they can draw on hands. These paintings are done by
Italian artist Guido Daniele who was hired by an advertising agency to create body paintings of animals that would bring the animals to life.

Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz's work has a fun relationship to the master copy/response project. Look under "gallery" on the left hand column for the titles of his projects, and take a look at Pictures of Junk, Chocolate, Thread, Dust, Ink, etc. There is much to see on this site.