notes from wednesday's critique

ashley, several artists working with the elderly came to mind when i looked at your work today. both phillip toledano and tearney gearon make photographs of their parents and their ailing physical and/or mental state. toledano's "days with my father" is incredibly touching. it also incorporates text, since you said you were toying with the idea of using your subjects' written stories.





gearon's work is called "the mother project" and there is a great documentary about it.
view trailer. it's available from netflix.

toledano's series has great shots of his father's objects, and gearon's work includes a lot of imagery of her mother's space.

as for thinking about ways to include text, maybe look at duane michals



jeffrey wolin ("written in memory: stories from the holocaust")


and tony mendoza ("stories")


could be inspirational! i like the idea of keeping the text physically separate, though, since the narratives are sort of separate for the subjects themselves.

mark, your idea about depicting literal sayings reminded of me an artist named jordan tate's "contemporary dictionary of sexual euphemisms."



it's pretty funny. i'm excited to see which direction you go for this class!

dominic, i had to think about your project for a while. what i took from your critique today is that you are making images about what information we gain from experiencing space and the landscape, and about how we think we know a place but only know/remember bits of it. you said that we remember specific points, like "A-1," and i really liked that in regards to the aspect of the grid (like battleship and connect four).
there's this artist who used to work in denver that i actually found out about while i was living in baltimore that you might want to look at, jason demarte. i don't really get his work.


from "utopic"

i also think you should look at john pfahl's "altered landscapes" and think about the decision making of georges rousse in his work like "construction/deconstruction."



i loved looking at and talking about everyone's work this week. our next group critique isn't until october 10, so i hope we can keep this blog in mind as a place to share things with each other.