This Telecourse series is designed to give students insight into the personality of the artist and the artist's working process. The series explores art as a record of problems, choices, accidents, decisions, and revisions that make it a process of critical thinking and problem solving instead of an inaccessible act of genius. Artists featured include Bill Viola, Hung Liu, Milton Resnic, Judy Baca, Lorna Simpson, and several others.
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Episode # 101
In this episode we meet photographer Lorna Simpson as she explores the politics and social underpinnings in the cameras eye. In the fall of 1995, Simpson completed a group of large-scale landscapes printed on felt that are the focus of this episode. In the New York exhibit, Simpson explores the concept of private acts in public spaces using ambiguous terrain and connecting words and images. We follow Simpson from the printing process through to the building of the actual exhibit.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Length : 25 min
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Episode # 102
This program features Guillerimo Gomez-Pena, a performance artist living in Washington. D.C. The artists work centers around the depiction of contemporary Mexican and Mexican-American culture, ethnic identity, social status, stereo-types, and contemporary situations Latinoes often find themselves in. In this program, Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes create a work entitled "The Temple of Confessions" which appeared in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in late 1996. The exhibit combined elements of Catholicism and contemporary Latino stereotypes and images. Viewers were asked to "confess" their thoughts and ideas about the exhibit to the artists as they sat in plexiglass "confessionals." Throughout the program, Gomez-Pena talks about his work and the often disturbing messages that are displayed in his art. Other works featured in the program include: "Mexercise: Smoke In, Smoke Out" and "Pulled Over." "The Last Immigrant" and "The Crucifixion."
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Length : 25 min
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Episode # 103
In this program we learn how artist Bill Viola creates his award-winning video art through a combination of audio, video and still photography. Viola talks about the creative process and where he gains inspiration and motivation for his work. He also describes the various pieces of equipment he uses to film filming in unusual places. His wife and managing director Kira Perov talks about her experiences working with her husband. We also follow Viola as he creates The Greeting, the final piece of his 1995 Venice Biennale installation entitled Buried Secrets. Among the works shown in the program are "He Weeps For You" (1976), "Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)" (1979), "Slowly Turning Narrative" (1992), "Room for St. John of the Cross" (1983), "Interval" (1995), "Deserts" (1994), "The Passing" (1991).
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Length : 25 min
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Episode # 104
In this program we meet Hung Liu, a contemporary painter who grew up in China at the time of the Cultural Revolution. Trained in the Russian Social Realist tradition, she emigrated to the United States in 1984. Liu talks about the artistic experience. We hear how she feels about painting as a means for freedom of expression, and follow Liu as she paints a series of works on the Last Emperor and his court for a 1995 exhibition in New York City.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Length : 25 min
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Episode # 105
In this program we see photographer, painter and sculptor Beverly Buchanan. We witness her ability to capture the beauty of the rural South through depictions of the shacks communities that make up much of the Southern landscape. Her work focuses not only on the dwelling itself but on depicting the habitat with aesthetic and abstract expressionism. We watch as Buchanan creates Boulevard Shack (1996) for a show in Gainsville, Georgia. Among the other pieces featured are: "Nellie Rushs House," "Black Walls" (4 works) (1977), "Architectural Constructions" (1983), "Blue Stones" (1985), "Johns Island Barn" (1986), "Early Shack" (Untitled), "Two Shack Maqettes" (1985), "Frank Owens Blue Shack" (1989), "The Green House/Hill House" (1989), "Shotgun" (1992), "Miss Mary Lou Furcrons House - deserted and Tribute to Mary Lou Furcron."
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Length : 25 min
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Episode # 106
In this program artist and lithographer June Wayne talks about the process of creating her work - from sketches, through the printing process. Wayne and Master Printer Judith Solodkin discuss the various stages in the lithography process--a process that is collaborative in its nature. Wayne Also discusses where she gains inspiration and how her prints exploit her interest in scientific theory, space, and atomic structure. We follow Wayne as she produces a print inspired by the atomic bomb.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Length : 25 min
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