Babak Golkar’s Persian carpets

Here's the review on Babak Golkar's exhibition at the Charles H.Scott Gallery. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the show?

http://www.straight.com/article-590951/vancouver/persian-carpets-rise-3d

Frida Kahlo-Alison

Frida Kahlo, a Mexican artist, is best recognized as a self portrait painter. Her paintings and her life cannot be separated from each other because her paintings illustrate her biography. In her surrealist paintings, she always shows her emotions and pain. During her lifetime, she went through a lot of obstacles, physical and emotional pain that she had to face, much more than what people usually face. She recorded all her feelings such as heartbreaks, love, life, and pain.
She once said "I paint self-portraits because I am the person I know best." As a self-portrait- lover, I am really inspired by her works every time I see them. Her paintings are always very dramatic and powerful in her expressions of her pain and emotions. Every painting has her face (with the significant seagull eyebrows), but every single one is different and distinguished. Not only that, but also her colour uses and mediums are effectively chosen to enhance her paintings. Just like I was, many other self-portrait artists must have been inspired by her strong works.

The Object as Portrait, workshop Feb 26

Gwenessa Lam's workshop on The Object as Portrait
Pictures from the workshop with Gwenessa Lam and the slide presentation!

 

Abstract painter Mary Heilmann (to Amy)

http://www.pbs.org/art21/watch-now/segment-mary-heilmann-in-fantasy


Many exciting aspects to think about; sculptural painting or paintings with abstract sculpture and many others...

Tara McPherson-Adam

Tara McPherson is an artist based out of New York City. Creating art about people and their odd ways, her characters seem to exude an idealized innocence with a glimpse of hard earned wisdom in their eyes. Recalling many issues from childhood and good old life experience, she creates images that are thought provoking and seductive. People and their relationships are a central theme throughout her work. 

I've been following her work for a while, she's got a lot of buzz in the past 4 years and I have learned a lot already but feel everyone else could benefit from her.

Research

Because I will be painting (probably) a lot of animals in my portrait I decided to do some research on Robert Bateman. I've known him for a long time and he has been one of my favourite artists. Just like me, his work has TONS of details and contrast. Bateman is an Canadian painter. He does really detailed sketches of animals as well as paintings. Robert would spend time working on huge canvases. He was always interested in art, but he never intended on making a living out of it. He was fascinated by nature and as a kid he recorded the sightings of all of the birds around his house in Toronto. His paintings are extremely realistic and I think he shares many interests with me. 

I was looking for different installation artists and I stumbled upon Clemens Behr. He is an installation artists who use paint and simply cardboard to create this abstract look of a space. I really like how he can make any spaces like the subway look so surreal just by adding some features to them.

I do not have a firm idea on what my final project would be but I would like to try creating another space or the feel of the space in a given area. I was also thinking about the theme of juxtaposition. It may be an interesting theme to tackle.
From reading other students works, I see that they are interested in creating works that interacts with the audiences. I think this is a great idea.