Carn-Evil

Haven’t done a poster in a while. This one’s for DJ Olmec, who’s spinning the Halloween party, Carn-Evil, at Vassar:

Carn-Evil, Halloween.

WVKR Tee Design

Look for these on campus come September:

Once they’re printed you’ll be able to find them online at wvkr.org

New Nudes

Some more nudes from the Arthouse Hotel, Sydney:

Shoulders. Conte crayon. 11" x 17"

Side. Conte crayon. 11" x 17"

Seated. Conte crayon. 11" x 17"

Twist. conte crayon. 11" x 17"

Final Sculpture Installation

For my final project in Sculpture 1, I installed some more dowel-ribbon sculptures along with my first two, RYB and Sunset, to create a little whimsical section of forest.

RYB, worm's eye view.

RYB and Sunset

Sunset in pines

The sculptures became representational, mimicking the trees in the site.

final sculpture diagonal

branch sculpture

another sculpture

and another.

I de-installed and scrapped all the sculptures, save RYB, but I think they were successful in their site for the time they were up.

Sunset

Sunset

In re-working Sculpture #3, I’ve found a completely new form for these bent oak boards. I made new anchor points that act as stilts to raise the up-turned boat form into the sky. Much like RYB, this work aims to create a personal space, a simple canopy of bent boards and some sparse polyester ribbon, that can both restrict and expand one’s experience with the landscape.

Sunset. Wood (Oak, Pine, Ply) and polyester ribbon.

Sunset sunset.

Sunset with trees.

grhyzzly X olmec !!! Poster

Here’s something new, the poster for the Founder’s Day line-up, headlined by !!!:

!!! Founder's Day 2009.

I did the original artwork with enamel and spraypaint and masking tape on a 3′ x 5′ peice of ply. Once I finished, Olmec picked it up and flexed his digi-magic, adding text and gorgeous color adjustment. Sure, you’ll probably forget this concert, but you better not miss it. Olmec’s been working hard on it.

Street Expressionism

A newer work, in the same style, but instead executed on a wooden panel with spraypaint and KR Inks:

MF Tails. KR Inks and spraypaint on board. 40" x 50".

I have been experimenting with a representational form of expressionism, recently, that seeks to remedy the lack of spontaneity in graphic street-art. Stencils are pre-cut and tags practiced to death. This portrait, done with KRINK markers, could exist on a mailbox or the side of a U-Haul, but it is also defined by uniqueness and quick, short expressive strokes. I am attempting to bring Van Gogh’s expressionist use of marks (that dictate both form and significance) to a modern, graphic context.

Self-Portrait#1, 2009. 30" x 40"

And an earlier study, with some different colors, done in Copic Markers:

Self-Portrait#1 Study, 2009. 14" X 17".

Calendars of Emotional Expressions

These are some recent works I did for my sculpture class, in an attempt to create an innovative new form of documenting human experience. In my longer essay on the works, I call the pieces “ TIMELINES OF EMOTION, OF FEELINGS, ” that are made up of “VISUAL EXPRESSIONS OF THE MOMENTS IN LIFE THAT SEEM IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER, OR LOG.” Essentially, these works are visual diaries, that record not exact dates or details of my day, but rather my emotional state over a period of time. Each color has a corresponding set of similar emotions:

Yellow- Blissful, Content, High, or Optimistic

Red- Anxious, Stressed, Frustrated, Annoyed.

Blue- Sad, Low, Sick, Tired.

The directionality of the strokes indicate the intensity or nature of the represented emotions. The vertical lines suggest the emotion is overwhelming, while horizontal lines indicate stability or mildness. Everything in between is fairly abstract and based on spontaneity. Each grouping of lines, usually 4-7, represents a single moment in my history. The calendar is read left to right, top to bottom.

Red, Yellow, Blue Calendar #1.

Wall Ribbon Calendar #1.

Photos

I’ve spent some time wandering around campus, camera in hand. The white winter sun has been beautiful.

With some Beach Boys filling my new roomy headphones (thanks, joe), it seems like spring already.

Come see my new sculpture on the quad, get inside it (if you can limbo), and get some color.

Catch me on twitter @grhyzzly.

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Windowsill.

Library Sky

Raymond Trees

Library Light

Yellow, Blue and Red.

RYB Wood (cedar supports, ply ring, oak+poplar+pine dowels) and polyester ribbon.

“If I started my own country, for the flag, what colours would I choose? I would pick Red, Yellow, and Blue. Red for the blood I’d spill to own it. Yellow for the sun that shines my way. Blue because I still have sad days.” Born Ruffians Red, Yellow, and Blue
This sculpture began as my attempt to sculpturally express myself in an abstract expressionist manner. I had a vision of creating a object in the same way a painter paints expressively and abstractly; I had no intention of representing form in any sense, but merely wanted to make expressive marks on a three-dimensional canvas. I placed ribbons—each measuring essentially my wingspan (as much as I could reach each time)— on this wooden frame, considering each strand’s appearance and relation to other strands. I tried to capture the emotions of the production in each stroke of ribbon. I also considered invoking a feeling of weightlessness with upward, optimistic strokes and a jarringly colorful scheme.
I consider the wooden ring and the vertical dowels to be a formal, static platform for my ribbon-painting. It is the canvas, the rigid wooden frame on which an image can form. The form is supposed to be basic, but attractively so; it exists solely to highlight the ribbon work on the spool.
Personally, when I inhabit the sculpture, I feel the sense of weightlessness I was trying to capture. There is something beautiful in the simplicity of the coloured fabric climbing those verticals that reach for the sky.

America, XXX. Gold spray-paint, krink markers, enamel on canvas.

Color Pallet. Wood, nails, enamel.

Crosshatches. Gold spray-paint, enamel, and krink markers.

Splashes. Silver spray-paint and enamel on canvas.