After creating my collage for this class, I was asking my professor, Matt Rebolz for some feedback. He ended up referring me to Wangechi Mutu due to her beautiful collages.

Wangechi Mutu, a beautiful Kenyan artist is born in Nairobi. She went to Great Britain and America for school. Later on in life she moved to New York to get a BFA at Cooper Union College in 1996. In 2000 she got her Master of fine arts at Yale University. She lives in New York and still works too.

She creates collages that revolve around femininity and sexuality, etc etc. Mutu uses mediums of “Mylar polyester film, acrylic paint, packing tape, glitter, and imagery from magazines.”

The reason she does these pieces is to show her experience and influence that differ from her African culture to American culture. There’s a different result of this through her collages and painting.

When looking at her work, she takes these pieces and remakes pieces that look like humans. They are a but spooky but the more you look at them the more beautiful it gets. There’s so much to look at.

https://www.artnet.com/artists/wangechi-mutu/biography

For this week I created a collage that has a bit of meaning to it. At first I wasn’t sure about what however I was receiving a bunch of images of women from school and from magazines.

This piece is suppose to show how women are said to have rights and can vote. In the long run, these rights end up getting stripped from our feet. The mistake I make was thinking more conceptually instead of fundamentally while trying to make such a strong piece. There’s more technical ways of doing art like this versus a more creative idea. I do think in order to make it stronger is so add some coloring in the negative space in the middle or even breaking these bars.

Although I did like this piece and enjoyed making it, there is a lot more I need to add to it til I am 100% happy with this piece.

Tiffany Rankin is an Austin Texas artist. She has lived here for 18 years due to wanting to be closer to family. Rankin comes from a creative family and is mainly self taught, although she did go to art school for a degree in graphic design.

The mediums they use is acrylic ink and oils. Their biggest inspiration would have to be history belonging in ancient times. A lot of their work is revolved with the idea of time and beautiful women. They are also a women advocate and how females have point of view on life.

The way Tiffany Rankin is inspired is through her inspiration wall. She has color palettes and several images that she looks at and waits for an idea to simmer.

Here is a work she did where she is focused on the women perspective of life. The colors are absolutely beautiful. Another thing she mentioned was how she didn’t want to tell people much about the work or how to feel. She wanted her audience to decide for themselves how to interpret her pieces.

In this next piece, you can see how her history and the pov of a women really stand out. With the marking on her face and the leaves popping out, you can sort of tell that its suppose to be historical.

citation: https://artofaustin.com/tiffany-rankin/

I had a few ideas when I was in class when approaching this piece. I wanted to work with lots of darkness and a splash of color. This is how I decided I wanted to create a girl in bright colors handing something colorful to someone who seems not to happy.

I sketched out a few ideas of this idea before looking online at references I can go off of.

After being set on what I wanted to do, I decided on using charcoal and pastel. I had never used pastels and charcoal sticks which was my true challenge. I didn’t like the outcome of my piece however, I now have more understanding on how these mediums work. The pastels were like crayons and it was hard mixing the charcoal and pastels together without making everything look muddy.

Here is the finished piece. In the future, I hope to come back to this piece and redo it.

For my research I decided to do Judy Pfaff. She was born in London in 1946. She got her bachelors degree from University Saint Louis and her MFA from Yale University. Pfaff works in multiple mediums such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, etc. She uses materials such as, string, lights, or really any material that can be used to a larger scale. She works with spacial awareness that completely changes the environment showing a lot of spiritual and historical standpoints. Judy Pfaff uses her space in rooms to a unique degree as to how each piece she installs is different from the next.

She wasn’t only an installation artist, she was also a teacher. She taught at the California Institute of the Arts and now works at Bard college as the co-director.

Here is two examples of her art installations:

Transforming Traditions 2000-01

https://www.judypfaffstudio.com/#/sculptors-recollected-2018/

2000-2001 Judy Pfaff: Transforming Traditions

Hello, my name is Leilanie Gill and I am in my first year as an art student. My major is animation, minoring in Video game development. Drawing into Space is a course I was interested in after I took Drawing Foundations with Sergio, a wonderful professor. He told me that drawing was very very important if you wanted to become an animator and this was the perfect place to increase my skills as an artist.

Drawing is a form of creative freedom that lets our thoughts flow in different spaces. In my space, I primarily use paper with the medium of charcoal or graphite, but lately I have been exploring the world of digital space. Its a completely different field from what I am used to but that’s what makes drawing fun. There’s so many mediums and spaces to draw that every experience is different! This is a huge reason why I chose to join this class. I’m ecstatic to grow into a better drawing/artist through this class.