Los Angeles (Part three) - A Group Project "Manzanar"

this is a continuationand not necessarily a chronological one, of the Los Angeles project.

One roadside stop was to Manzanar National historical Site. This is all part in defining not only our physical landscape from Reno to Los Angeles but a historical one. Manzanar was a war relocation center and was one of many camps where japanese American citizens and resident japanese aliens were interned during World War II. More the 110,000 people were ordered my the united States government to leave there homes and belongings and detained them in remote camps. This was a reminder of the harsh history of america and partly what it means to be apart of an american landscape.

The very top photo was taken by logan of a model of the camp. the next photo down shows what little physical evidences remans(after the government destroyed most of the buildings after the closing of the camp). The bottom photo is a drawing done by a young boy while his family was detained at the camp.

Los Angeles (Part two) - A Group Project "The Kits"

This is the second part to my vague accounts of  the Los Angeles trip  I just when on this past spring beak. Check out previous entrees on the projects below.... (helpful if skimmed in order)

We had our official start to the project a week or so before we ever got on the road. we meet up at a basque restaurant in reno where we were to received our kits from J. and Russell. The idea of the kit excited me... it sounded a little like a mean surprise. The idea of kits is fun.. all sorts of exciting things come in kits; detective kits, doctor kits, spy equipment, model cars. Our kits turned out to have the two essential characteristics needed to be superb: a knife and mystery. My kit had one old pocket knife from J.'s childhood, a pencil, a leather bound sketch pad and two Polaroids. I will try to post a picture of the polaroids at some point because I saw them as the more mysterious part. In a way the kits we received were not just full of physical tools for art-making but conceptual tools as well. cant say I have used them for much more then a starting point in my journal, but thats what this is a starting point.

"Quickie"

The SNC Art blog has some images of the latest show in the "reference gallery" that the student gallery club is over seeing.  CLICK HERE to see logan lape's blog covering the show. 

Los Angeles (Part One) - A Group Project - "Way-Finding, The Landscape

The project doses not seem to have a name yet, although not surprising  because we have not defined an ending for the project. The registers office at my school  calls it "Special Topics In Fine Art / Los Angeles". If I had to name it right now in the middle, I may call it something like: "Group Expanse landscape, I Define Mine a little More"  or "Way-Finding". (Warning: previous titles due to change at any time). 

Here are the basics: 

One van five students and two professors, leave small liberal arts collage for the urban landscape. I have seen this trip as an example of  the S.N.C  Art Community's engagement to an inter-medium approach and interest in connecting to an urban or

(other environment's) discourse, while creating work in the mountains. 

This whole trip will requires some process time as you can tell if you were crazy enough to read the above passage. will post more and hopeful define what we were up to better. 

SCULPTURALLY TRANSLATED MEANS THINGS!

CLICK HERE for more info and to check out Logan Lape's reaction to the show
The Card For the show reads :

"Sculpturally Translated Means Things! is a collaborative experimental exhibition initiated by Sierra Nevada Collage visiting artist Scott Oliver and professor Russell Dudley, as a way to explore the role imagination plays on bridging the gap between language and objects. Oliver met with ten individuals from surrounding communities and interviewed each about an object in his/her home. Recordings of the interviews we paired with SNC art students:

Kath McGaughey, Logan Lape, Babs Laukat, Becca Jane Rubinfeld, Corey Herynk, Nick Geankoplis, Jocelyn Meggait, Victoria Buck, Savannah Euler and Yomas Grana who were then asked recreate the object baced only on the interview. "

Closing Reception: march 26th, 5-7pm

Echibition Dates: Febuary 26th-March 28

Above is a shot of the gallery in the process of instillation.

I was given an interview about a light fixture, both above and below are some images of my peace. Each peace will have an excerpt from the interview in text and the full audio version will be available to viewers as well, through portable audio devices.  I will try to post more about the show as soon as possible. 

"70's Sasquatch Girl"

Here is a still Video I made this past week. It is my first attempt at moving my girl from photos and animations to video. I also my attempt at using color for most of my work is black and white. Here I believe the color is straightening the confusion between different times. This piece is loosely backed off of a New Genres assignment where we the class was asked to think about a time piece and artistic identity. I like the 70's color and the how they color the character and the girls all seam to be from a different time. I am sometimes hesitant to post my videos on my blog for the scale and the way one is to view it is important to me. I have received some questions as to the shapes within the film and I am choosing to leave them a mystery right now. The title comes form a comment during a class crit "it looks like a 70 sasquatch video" I liked it because it talked a bit about the animal like movements and the relationship between the girl and the landscape. I want to thank Babs Laukat for her filming. I dressed up and she sort of spied on me.