After driving around the campus, consulting a outdoor campus map, and many confused looks from Eau Claire students, we finally found The Foster Gallery. It was exciting to visit a neighboring campus and investigate their Art and Design building and gallery. I have to say, I am glad I am attending Stout.
The artist's featured in the "Drawing Beyond the Edges" show are:
- Amanda Hughen
- Edward Mater
- Cal Lane
- Fraser Taylor
I choose to do noticings of pieces done by the first three artists listed.
Amanda Hughen, "Preoccupation"
Ink, graphite, acrylic paint on drafting film
I noticed...
- layering
- honeycomb structure
- it was dense in the middle and as the form moved towards the edges became less
- there was a form the reminded me of pollen of a flower or ends of sticks
- pale pastel colors
- hexagonal forms
- acrylic painted part pops out, more three-dimensional
- some hexagons are filled, while others are just the contours
- movement of the piece is bottom left to top right, diagonal
- eye is drawn to the burnt orange color first
- pthalo blue, mint green, baby blue, olive green, orangish pink, school bus yellow
- invokes light hearted emotion
- some of the hexagonal forms are only noticed when up close
- few tiny hexagonal groupings
- fingerprints
- thickness/weight of lines are fairly consistent
- long rectangle forms
- long oval pill forms
- total of 3 different shapes
Cal Lane "Untitled (Map 2)"
Plasma cut steel drum
I noticed...
- red
- jagged edges, roughness
- world map, side, top and bottom view
- figures in 3 of the corners
- Mother and Child
- sphere form in top right looks like it is emitting light
- boarder looks like dancing people or flower forms
- block/box forms above the mother and child
- top left figure has a basket of apples
- positive and negative space of the piece create shadows on the wall
- grid over world map
- lines coming off of sphere in the top right moves your eye down and out of the piece
- circle pieces are centered above and below of the large rectangle
- grid lines are wavy- remind me of water
Noticed the hanging black rope of his entire piece
I noticed...
- the hanging rope looks uneven from side, but when standing at the end you see they hang at an even distance from the ground
- rope has a knot about every four inches
- there are 16 hanging "u" from the ceiling
- seem to hang in pairs
- giant ball of knots at the end
- other end rope is taped to the ground
- is a part of a larger piece
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