Article released April 11th 2014

Paddy Johnsons article caught my eye called will galleries and museums ever embrace animated gif art. Today we have way more technology and social networking that is bringing out more GIF art available to see on the net. Paddy talks about how two social networking cites are main platforms today for artists to easily post work and ideas one being tumblr and the other google+. Though there is no easy way to explain these networkings being big on art since they where not designed for so but they are obviously a platform for artists today. Her article question to me, got me thinking about the art community and the future of art and though gif art is slowly popping up in some art shows like the Armory Art Show. Art I feel is forever changing but galleries are always going to be selective of their particular taste in art and what is fit within. 

Greatest Artist Easter Egg Hunt New York

This would be great to have on campus in the future for the BFA students and Digital Tech Culture students. In New York popular artists like Julian Schnabel, Zaha Hadid and designers like Martha Stewart and Ralph Lauren are designing and putting their own easter egg designs up around the city of New York. These eggs are already up for auction starting at $500, the bids are already up some over $360,000.00.

Seattle Merging Artists Call

I did some research of how to get one of the Street art projects in Seattle and found the call for artists page on Seattle.gov. Some merging Artists that have participated in the street arts in Seattle are Tim Marsden, Sam Trout, Joanne Lepore, and Breanne Gearheart as well as many others. The nice thing is that neighborhood communities can create maintain public artwork in their own neighborhoods supported by Seattle's community. At this time they are looking for new artists for a street project in May and have open submissions at this time. Here are some of the previous work done...

Let the Artwork Convince you Not the Brand

I Think Bejamin Genocchio (don't ask me to pronounce this) Makes a good point in his article posted in ArtnetNews 

He talks about how new artists have to brand themselves in fashion rather than be themselves to sell and if this is not accomplish they tend to fail to succeed within the art community. Genocchio really likes seeing unbiased work that can be viewed freely by the public where us as viewers can decide wether the art is good or bad....  

This article has really good points and just reminded me how everything we see often is because the branding is big and the advertising budget is there. Your not going to see the mom and pop shops on your big TV stations during commercial time your only going to see what is already profiting.

Rene Daniels "Metro Pictures"

Read a article today that totally caught my eye and emotionally drew me in as a reader. It completely got me thinking about Alyssa, Ester, and Amanda's intervention from class again  and how everyone is creative in their own way. Rene Daniels is a disabled (retarded) artist thats work is making big again after 30 years of creating water color paintings his work is sold between 12 and 41 thousand dollars and really shares a unique perspective on who can do art and who is good at art. Rene's work has been sought out by galleries around Europe in the 80's unfortunately Rene's inability to create new work at least from what was thought at the time took him out of galleries and now 30 years later new work is coming out and old work is being found from storages there are new exhibitions taking place around Europe and the United States

Jeffrey Shaw

Jeffrey Shaw was born in Melbourne, Australia, where he ended up studying architecture and art history at the University of Melbourne.  He went on to the Accedemia di Belli Art di Brera in Milan Italy and also St. Martin's School of Art where he studied Sculpting.  His first project that he was a part of was in the Amsterdam, Netherlands with Peter Boersma, Theo Botschuijver, Willem Breuker, John Latham, Nica Nijland, Graham Stevens and Tjebbe van Tijen, called Sigma.  In the  Art and Electronic Media book by Edward A. Shanken, Shaw was recognized for his work Inventer la Terre (inventing the world).

Michael REES

Putto is an ongoing piece that Michael REES has been sculpting since 2005.  REES is known for his sculptures that captivate all sorts of audiences using themes of figuration, language, technology and the social image.  He has featured his work in venues such as the Whitney Museum, the MARTa, the Pera Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and many private galleries.  

REES lives and works in New York and is a professor at the William Patterson University.  There he is the Director of the Center For New Art and the Co-director of the Fine Arts Graduate program.