Andrea Maack

Andrea Maack was born in 1977 and lives and works in Reykjavik, Iceland. Maack's main focus is sculpture, but her background in fashion and design heavily influences her work. In her work she takes inspiration in the process used by minimalist artists who sent their drawings to be executed by craftsmen, who then mass produced the work. She works with a lot of patterns that she then incorporates into her sculpture (recent work happens to be in the form of clothing). Maack also incorporates scents into her work because she also believes scent to be a pattern that fits together with her work at large. She got her BA in fine art in 2005 and displays mainly in Iceland and Nordic countries. However her work has been published internationally and displayed in New York as well.

Paper Architecture

Wiggly Bridge: copy paper, approx. 11" x 5 3/4" x 1/2", Oct. 2009

Royal Crown Church: copy paper, approx. 11" x 8 1/2" x 2 1/2", Oct. 2009

London Eye: copy paper, approx. 8 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 1/2", Oct. 2009

Chichen Itza: copy paper, approx. 11" x 8 1/2" x 1", Oct. 2009

Tallest Structure

Unfortunately due to computer malfunction, I lost a lot of my pictures (like in the former post). I don't have any pictures of the tallest structure. I had made an approximately 6'2" structure made out of foam core. Sept. 2009

Stacked Form

Unfortunately due to computer malfunction, I lost a lot of my pictures and was only able to recover this up close photo of the textured form. I did get the dimensions a while ago though.

cardstock, glue, some gel medium, approx. 8" x 19" x 13", Sept. 2009

Paul Poiret

Paul Poiret was a french couturier who was born in Paris, France on April 20, 1879 and died in his birthplace on April 30, 1944. He gave himself the title of "King of Fashion," and is most notated for freeing women of corsets and pantaloons. He also introduced the hobble skirt, which ironically enough restricted the way women walked. However what made Poiret truely innovative was how he cut and constructed his clothing taking into consideration the fact that he couldn't sew. He liked clothing cut along straight lines and made with rectangular pieces of fabric. His approach relied more on drapery skills because he worked directly on the body. His clothing was heavily influenced by Neoclassical and Orientalist styles, Eastern Art, and Russian Ballet. His designs were very theatrical, in deep, luxiourous purple, red, orange, green, and blue tones that epitomized the Pre-World War I era. Interestingly enough he also worked with art deco artist George Lepape, who illustrated Poiret's designs and called the collection Les Choses de Paul Poiret. Poiret's muse was his wife and they became notorious for throwing lavish parties to showcase his designs. Poiret was dethroned and basically forgotten with the arrival of Coco Chanel and her simple, impeccibly constructed designs.

Petah Coyne

Petah Coyne was born in Oklahoma City in 1953 and is currently living and working in NYC. She graduated from Kent University in 1973 and the Art Academy of Cincinatti in 1977. Her work has been exhibited all over, but most notably at the Whitney Biennial in 2000. Her work consists mainly of large scale sculptures (as in 10ft.) made of a variety of materials, like wood, hay, soil, tar, chicken wire, sand, taxidermy, ribbons, hair, flowers, and bird cages. From those materials she creates lush surfaces that the viewer can easily caught up in. Petah refers to her sculptures as her "girls" and she explores the concept of how close beauty is to decay. Her sculptures are influenced by her study of art history, specifically Dutch still life and baroque sculpture, as well as her religious upbringing.

Visual Narrative

Visual Narrative based off my erasure poem titled
Questioning
She asks me if every intellectual is ever throwing up can't get rid of the other one, but in a different way the human race poor little new maiden is a strange type: traveling all over alone to see it for herself. That slim self with sights, visions! Everything passes her clear quiet eyes skirting the edge of obscene abysses without tearing her robe without knowing the injurious suspicions always passionless, stainless, fearless, charmless a little figure which, if you can get the right point of view, is rather striking
cardboard, copy paper, printed map graph paper, graph paper, tracing paper, hot glue, and gel medium, approx. 11" x 14" x 14", Nov. 2009

Hideo Iwasaki

Hideo Iwasaki works as both an artist and biologist. He was born in 1971 in Tokyo, Japan and first graduated from the Deptarment of Agrculture at Nagoya University in Japan. He got his PhD in biological science from the same school. He's yet to include science based motifs in his papercutting, however he's combined his papercutouts and biomedia to make hybrid installations. It is very important for him though to consider the "notions of science-logic/metaphor, nature/artifact, organism/material, softwear/hardwear/wetwear, traditional fine art/post computational media, etc." A focus of his has been a special group of bacteria called cyanobacteria, which are ancestors to the first oxidative organisms. He began research for their "scientfically unknown" patterns and used these patterns as an artistic medium and for research purposes. His lab also has started a collaboration with other artists who are interested in using biological themes in their work. His work as both a biologist and artist has been recognized internationally.

Noriko Ambe

Noriko Ambe was born in Saitama, Japan in 1967. She obtained a BFA in oil painting from Musashino Art University in Tokyo. Her recent body of work involves topographical map or wave papercuts that are supposed to be the traces of her actions and emotions. She says that the "relationship between linear actions and materials is like the relationship between human beings and their restricted environment, a connection that is interested in me, too." She believes that the process of creating is just as important as the finished piece. Her work has been displayed in many galleries, museums, and publications worldwide, most notably for me the Whitney Museum of American Art In NYC.

Paper Cube

paper, cardboard, hot glue, tape, approx. 16" x 17" x 16", Oct. 2009