final print project

This was my final for my intaglio class. It's done with aquatint which is basically this longer process where you etch a copper plate with acid. It took FOREVER! But I really enjoyed the class, I'll post some more pictures soon, I've scanned all my jar paintings and will get those up asap.

Recent

I'm in Intaglio (printmaking) and an oil painting class. In painting I'm working on a huge 40"x44" painting, the biggest I've ever worked with. It's given me some trouble compositionally but I'm hoping for the best! This one below is a print I did representing broken glass:

Ok so I wondered what ya'll thought about this artwork. I did it in response to the artist kara walker who I did a report on. She deals with a lot of issues about racism, sexuality, power, etc. I really enjoy what she does even though it's kind of intense and if you're not careful, pornographic. Anyway, she uses silhouettes to narrate a story, often about some sort of power struggle. She does large paper cut outs and adheres them to gallery walls. So her image is located below and mine above. She is an african american artist and I am not. So is what I did racist?

It's not in my defense, but just my reaction to the racism I felt living in Lumberton, Texas. I felt like children thought racism was a game and they would wear confederate flags as superhero capes and wear shirts that said "the south will rise again." I surely did not enjoy or think this was right.n So in mine, if you can't tell, there is a little girl blowing bubbles that have the opposite race floating in them that will soon be impailed by knives. Gruesome? Yes, so is Kara Walker, WAY worse than mine.

What do you think?

art history

So this page is intended for my art and the art that I am discovering and artists I admire. =)

So one thing I've become very interested in is racism. And mostly the human experience, but the way we experience it differently. Last winter I did a collaboration with 3 other art students. We made "Amernica" after picasso's famous Guernica. We used his symbols and imagery in our own 4 panel pieces. Each of our's had to do with issues and different "wars" in America. One was about abortion, the other military, one was on economics, and mine was about immigration.

Amernica

But I chose to show immigration from the side of those trying to immigrate, especially from central america. I heard horrible stories from my latin companions on my mission about people who had tried to come to the U.S. There are coyotes they can pay who will take them to a certain point or take them across the border. Some are really evil coyotes and they take people's money and then leave them to die in a desert somewhere. Most of these people are just trying to escape the oppressive conditions in their country, or their trying to provide for their family. So my piece was called Dying to Live made with gessoed masonite board, newspaper, acrylic paint, and aluminum wire. the lighting in this picture turned it yellowish but it's only black white and red.

Dying to Live

and it begins

So I created this for a place to dedicate some of my art, other people's art I love etc. And a place where people can check out my stuff and maybe buy it! I'm all about sharing!!! =)