Final

This is one of my characters. I have a couple but this one is my second favorite. Everything I do has to do with outer-space so I wasn't surprised that this would be my final project. It took a lot of time letting things dry because I made the paint so thick but I want it that way, it wasn't a mistake. It's called "High Off Love".

Still life

Apple with chicken soup

Double self-portrait

The loser is on the right side. The hero is on the left side. Myself though out the day... is just a loser. Thats how it feels, that I could never do anything right though out my days. My hero, this guy on the left side, it's me when I'm zoned out into space. Thats my safe zone; I'm always a winner there.

Abstract-Nature

This is my view, 10 stories high from the balcony. I've been seeing this same view every morning, afternoon, and night for the past 20 years so it sticks to my brain. I know that I'm home when I see this. When I don't see this, I know that I'm far from it. Having a view of both the Atlantic Ocean and Jamaica Bay is awesome, even though I don't appreciate it as much as everyone that comes to my house. When I heard nature, this was the first thing that came to mind because the way the trees are lined up, with the water on both side and the sky. It's something I guess I acknowledge in my own way. This was a way to show it through my eyes with a canvas and a paint brush.

Willem de Kooning@MoMA

When I went to the de Kooning exhibit I went with my Art in NY class. I'm not an abtract fan but I went with an open mind. My teacher suggested I get the audio phone thing. So at first I was only going to the photos that had the audio sign on it. I wasn't interested in anything. Everything looked like a mess but everyone around thought it was amazing, but I don't know why. There where a few things I liked, like the "Summer Couch" painting. I just thought the colors reminded me of what it was suppose to and after the audio told me what it was I could see it. His scultpures where cool too. He has some other work I think it was something with high heels, it was the most confusing thing I've ever seen. I didn't like the exhibit but I gave it a chance. I guess it would help me if I did more abstract work.

Self portrait

My self portrait is a half and half version of me. I think of self portraits of HOWEVER you see yourself, even if no one really understands it or if they will or still won't after you explain it to them. So I have this character I draw all the time, I never notice how much it was like myself. It an alien like robotic human version of me. I added this character into my self portrait. I planned on just doing our heads but since my character had no face just a back of a head; I mad it based in the back of our heads. The character has it's brains out, so that's what that is in back of it's head but mine, I have my hair. We both have gauges but mine are smaller. The background of the images are also important. On my side, I'm looking at the day time sky from earth but on my other side I'm looking at the stars and spaceship from outer space at what seems to be night because I'm right by the moon, although there isn't really a day or night when you're in outer space. I don't have all my ideas down on paper because I always change them and confuse myself so I wrote down ideas on the bottom if my drawing so when in ready to paint I know where I am at. Here is my self portrait.

Pointillist Painting

I thought pointillist was the hardest thing i've ever did. I even got mad threw the canvas during the process and even after it was finished I felt like doing the same thing. Painting is already difficult but I was trying to give this a chance. At first i thought "how hard could it be?". It wasn't as simple as it sound. My brush wouldn't make the dots that I wanted it to make. So what this is suppose to be is, the living room entertainment center. Yea, like you could tell. I am not proud of my work, I would of put up the self port. but I think I'll post it later. I was going to give up but I rather the teacher help me out and let me know what I did wrong, becasue there is clearly something that I am doing wrong. Please help me figure this out.

Exquisite Corpse drawing/work-in-progress NY painting

For the new york drawing I got, it was a kind of hard to get out what was drawn but the person who drew it made notes on the drawing. Even though it was shirt and simple, it told the story of what was going on. "Spears of flames are falling from the orb into the ground and the place is on fire". So then I realized it was a disaster going on, that's why there was slot of red. The other quote read, "this is garden with a big rock, flowers and a happy sun". So I got out of it that it was terror coming to a peaceful place. Like what happened during 9/11. I know a child drew this so it was kind of sad to me to know that a young child though of it this way. I wouldn't want any child to have to live through that, so I decided not to change the painting too much. I wanted it to be what the little artist saw when he/she drew it. I am not much of a painter so I drew it out on the canvas first. I decided to make the terror the most part of the painting because that day no one saw the hood in it and if so it was very little. That's why there's only a small section of the happy place. Which is the flowers and the rock; I didn't make the sun happy. I didn't think a sun would be happy to look down at the world and see all of this. I let the flower shoot off happiness though with the cloud around it being it normal blue color but the top of the sky is a more grayish-blue to make it look dark and horrible. The fire balls are falling and the clouds are on fire and you can see the sun's fire from a far. Building knocked down, not much is good in this city. That was the feeling to me.

PS1 & LAGCC 9/11 shows

LAGCC’s 9/11 show was just as interesting of a show as the PS1 9/11 show, even though the PS1 artist probably has a lot more experience. Both shows had the same purpose and gave me the same feeling as any 9/11 memorial would. I liked to see that everyone sees 9/11 so similar yet so different. LAGCC doesn’t have as much space but the use their space well; they had sculptures as well as PS1.

Mike Nelson

British 1967

Untitled (shrine)

Mixed medium

I liked this sculpture in PS1 because I still can’t figure it out and why did it catch my attention. The used a lot more mediums in the museum then in LAGCC but the paintings in the school showed how younger artist see 9/11 and the paintings were great how the used the gray scales in the planes and building paintings.

911 Explosion

2001

22’’x35’’

Oil on canvas

I really like black and white paintings because it reminds me of black and white photographs. This painting looks just as I remember 9/11, this is the only picture that comes in my head when I think of it and to see it on a canvas shows I’m not the only one who it stuck to this image when they hear 9/11. My favorite thing in the LAGCC show was a series, I like the order and to see the top 3 things they thought where important for you to know what happened. Even for a person who has no idea of that day and what happened they can look at this series and get a good idea if not, know the whole story.

      

Greg Hilton

3 WTC/ Mosque series

2001

48’’x60’’

Heat transfers on lutrador

The first photo where they emphasize the towers already there, it was interesting because people always try to find signs in other things to show that they knew it was going to happen, or to tell us to watch out for the signs we see. It’s kind of funny sometimes how Americans always try to find a deeper meaning to things.

Also when they show what’s going on outside of America, it really catches my attention. PS1 had a room of nothing but newspaper articles, photos from the Middle East, and here in America, how we would put down all Muslims like they had something to do with it. If I was Muslims I would want my side of the story out there too, so I thought that room was bringing the peace between countries.

From the newspaper room

They also redid an Arabic joke or PS1, I guess it was for the humor, I hope so.

 

Arabic Joke

In Manhattan, NY, a poster campaign took place for the duration of a month. On the posters the following Arabic joke was written in Arabic:

Both shows had an emotional effect on me because of all the different mediums I got to view them in different ways. With all the different perspective for college students to artist, it shows that we both can put our ideas together to tell the same story. I wish I could of saw other 9/11 shows.