Sunday Walk

Sunday Walk

Fred Tomaselli

Fred Tomaselli

         Fred Tomaselli is fine artist who was born in Santa Monica, California, 1956. His style usually involves collage, painting, and/or glazing. His artwork is always highly detailed and put on big wood panels. Fred Tomaselli uses a wide verity of materials that vary tremendously. He often found using consciousness-altering plants and pills. "I want people to get lost in the work," he says. “ I want people to get lost in the work. I want to seduce people into it and I want people to escape inside the world of the work. In that way the work is pre-Modernist. I throw all of my obsessions and loves into the work, and I try not to be too embarrassed about any of it. I love nature, I love gardening, I love watching birds, and all of that gets into the work. I just try to be true to who I am and make the work I want to see. I don’t have a radical agenda" (1)

         I love how he talks about his artwork and very impressed with his interviews. They are very inspiring. He shares how he had doubts about his work but stood up for what he wanted to do and found a way to present it in interesting way. He says that he almost have no control over his work, he just let's his mind wonder and hopes that his art communicates to people. That is something every artists desires: to be able to express thoughts and first of all to fulfill his/her own soul. 

         His artwork also visually caught my attention right away. I can see a clear reference to drugs and how they make one see and feel. The color combinations and their chaotic arrangement on the canvas are so attractive for the eyes. I also like very much his choice of subject matter. His work looks very intuitive and spontaneous. He often does the nature or people but he choses to show it in a very simple way so that the most attention is concentrated on it's  colors and texture. I like Fred's artwork very much because find his work 'easy' to 'digest', very playful. I also appreciate looking at the unusual materials he chooses to use, it is very inspiring. 

works cited:

1. http://www.philiptaaffe.info/Interviews_Statements/Tomaselli-Smith-Taaffe.php

life around treble key

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFF9Retg3no&feature=g-hist

animation

Tristin Lowe

 

Tristin Lowe

Tristin Lowe was born in 1966 in Philadelphia where he is resident until today. He studied in Parson School of Design in New York from 1984 until 1986 and have a BFA in sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art. 

Tristin Lowe is considered to be a risk-taking artist, as far as materials he uses. He uses very low-teck and low-brow materials, whatever he can find and make it do what he wants to. For example, uses plastic, neon lights, wool or felt. His work mainly consists of those gigantic sculptures made of various materials previously mentioned. I noticed that even though they are tremendously huge and often supposedly frightening subject matter they have a very soft feeling. The way they are done, the rounded corners make them look like stuffed animals. On the other hand, in such a way he successfully depicting the real appears of a life animal into an 3D object.  

I was most amazed with the scale of sculptures that yet kept the childlike fell. They made me feel like I have never played with such huge toys The installation of Mocka Dick stricken me the most. It has the size and feel of an actual whale which is tremendously huge. For this piece he used industrial wool felt which successfully mimics the appearance of flesh. I assume the whale was planed out and turned into pattern pieces and then stitched together. It is a lot of hard work that at the end does have a gorgeous outcome. AMAZING!!!

 

the birth of the eye

Animation

Crazy Sharpie

Ecstasy

3 Panel Illustration / sketched ideas

Music_Network

Music_Network

Pattern