Julia's artwork

Monday, April 21, 2008

Sunday, April 13, 2008

So I've been going to a lot of gallery openings the past two weeks. I've found that on thursdays there are so many gallery openings in Chelsea. Last week I went to a couple, most of them were abstract and I didn't really like most of them. This week however, I went with my friend Marina to probably about 9 openings. A lot of them were really good. One gallery had all prints, ev

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me of Chuck Close's work which was over 200 colors. Insane. It's great going to these because it's within walking distance from me, it's free, and you get to see what's new in the art world haha. Here's a few cards I picked up.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Helen, Kelvin, Kenia

More portraits for my project...I wanna get as many as I can done in the next three weeks.

Friday, April 4, 2008

SVA spring semester '08

This is what I've done so far this semester. There's not much since I've been working on longer projects and do not have my favorite class this semester - printmaking. Instead of printmaking, I have a computer class. I've never used photoshop prior to this class, but now I kinda like it.

DRAWING

PAINTING

PHOTOSHOP

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Steve

Latest portrait for my drawing project...

Raymond Pettibon

So Danielle, my drawing teacher, gave us each a list of artists that she thinks would relate to our own individual work. On the list, I was glad to see that Raymond Pettibon was listed. First semester, my printmaking teacher also recommended that I look at Pettibon. I found that he created the Black Flag logo over 20 years ago. I thought that was awesome, because well...BLACK FLAG..duh enough said haha. Pettibon has done work for other bands as well, like The Minutemen and Sonic Youth. His work consists mainly of monochromatic or very minimal color drawings with simple line work and shading. It's funny because a lot of my work is similar to his. I am also very interested in early punk and hardcore scenes, which I use in my work pretty often. Also like Pettibon, I do a lot of simple line work and monochromatic drawings. He uses lots of figures in his work, which relates to the drawing project I'm working on right now.

However, unlike my work, Pettibon uses a lot of text in his work. I never really think to utilize text, because I never think I have any messages to relay to an audience. And his drawings are very narrative or comic-like. I try to avoid comic looking work, but sometimes that's just what comes out. Also unlike my work, Pettibon often utilizes a political message in his work. My work never really has a political message, it's just something that I don't really like to explore in my work.