3-Part Art Week: Criticism, Design, and Studio

This week has been a busy productive one. Finally! keyword being "productive". :D

Viewing Art-
I went to San Francisco on Thursday night for an art preview of the San Francisco Fine Art Fair. Facebook can be awesome sometimes besides the outrageous amount to spam. I "like"d a gallery on Facebook and this week they offered free patron tickets to the event- an awesome find that saved my friend and I $110 a piece. We saw works (originals and a few copies) by Picasso, Warhol, Rauschenberg, Indiana, Dine, Neri, Oliveira, Livingston, De Kooning, Voulkos, Homada, Ferguson, Eugene Smith, Dorthea Lange, Lichtenstien, Francis Bacon, Braque, Dubuffet, Damien Hirst, Kandisky, Kelly, Renior, Ruscha, Thiebaud....this list goes on. We saw the Life Time Achievement Award for the Director of the SFMoMA, Richard L. Greene (from a distance). Also, this event was selling all of the work (starting at $1000 to $1 million!) Because people were buying, you could stand 4 inches away from the work and security didn't jump you. Some people even touched the sculpture!! oh my!
 We stopped for dinner at this cool little artsy neighborhood for food. Try Napolito if you are ever on Oak St.

Advertising Art-
Comp 25 is pulling through again. We have been studying code, html, css, and javascript this week. All of those are tools to make a website. I'm using the opportunity to make a website for Pacific's 3D art club, Studio 1091. It has been a project I have wanted to do for a couple months but no desire to mess with Dreamweaver again after my personal website. This site will act almost like a gallery/ etsy for the participating artists. I'm excited. So here is what I have so far.
http://www1.pacific.edu/~jfong11/

Making the Art-
I spend 50% of my art time in the ceramics studio. This week I had a goal to get several molds prepared so I can start the clay process next week and bisque and fire by the next. I do not know if any of you have made any ceramics but just an fyi: you can't make a square bowl on a wheel. So this is where the mold comes in. The mold looks like this bowl filled with plaster so when I lay plaster on the mold I get a bowl. Kind of cool and a quick way to make a lot of things. I have not tested it yet but I can't wait. I'll post final pictures next week.





Jessica