Here is another open choice for my foundations class. It is another photo shoot with Grace staring Nick. We went around Belltown Seattle and just had some fun! Hope you like them!!! - Alex W. Tsou
Etsuka Ichikawa
Etsuka Ichikawa was born in Japan and graduated from art school there before moving to Seattle. In 1991 she discovered the art of glass. After gaining experience with the material, Etsuka started drawing on canvas with molten glass using a glass blower. The paper was left with burn marks and bits of glass. The pieces show true movement. Her performance Firebird incorporated her technique with dance and intense classical music.
Etsuka Ichikawa has always had a strong connection with water. Her most recent piece called Nachi contained the element using string representing a waterfall. On the outside was a thin wall and a sound from a japanese well played throughout the room. This instillation was her most recent project.
To me her work is very unique and strange, yet I enjoyed it. I got a feeling that I do not know how to describe. For her piece Firebird, it just did not seem special. I bet if one was there in person, it would have a stronge impression.
Cable Griffith
Cable Griffith is a curator at Cornish College of the arts and has had the love for art the majority of his life. His vision for Cornish is to create a space for the students and for Seattles community. He graduated from Boston University as a painter and moved to Seattle in the year 2000. he then discovered the love for teaching a few years later and went to grad school.
His work varies in mediums and has changed throughout the years. Cable is in love with the process of work, and one can see it in his art. my favorite work he showed us was one of his most recent pieces. It was a 3D painting using plexieglass. While the viewer moved around the instillation, the process was easily seen. The piece was painted in layers and he started in the center.
All in all Cable loves the community and wants to share art with everyone. He loves being a curator because of the inventions, the experimentation, and the creativity. He enjoys making all of it come together. To him a gallery tells a story, and he can be the writer.
My Sources
For my final project for foundations, I want to explore the art of stereocopy. It is usually used with photography but I want to try using paintings. I will have four pieces and make my own head set.
My first source for inspiration is a artist names Gerald Mark. He has shown his stereocopy photography all over the world.
The next source is Neil Nathanson who also uses this technique.
I have been wanting to do a project with stereocopy for a couple of years ever sense I saw the gallery in Portland OR. The Center of 3D Art contained wonderful pieces.
My last source is a website that helps one with the basics of stereocopy art.
http://www.ny3d.org/stereo_art/
http://www.neilnathanson.com/3D02/index.html
Here are my sculpture projects. I was assigned to take an ordinary object and create a force that the object could not do in reality. I chose to do garden gnomes. The first one is melting, the next one is bloated, and the third one is sliced. Hope you like them!
Here is my third substrate for my foundations class. This time we had to research a culture for our inspiration. mine was the Masai people in Africa. Their clothing is so beautiful and the rings the women wear are covered with gorgeous patterns. we also had to have some depth so I cut out three rings representing the Masai’s. it is painted with acrylic paint. Hope you like it. Oh, and thanks to Grace for posing for over half of my photos!
For my third substrate, i have to construct an art piece using one color. My choices are either red or green. The art has to represent culture. I chose red, but can not choose between two cultures. There is the African red rings that the woman wear around their necks which is beautiful. Or create a chinese red dragon with tints of gold. In China the color red represents joy and celebration. Both artforms are amazing and I will have to chose soon. Here are two pictures that I have found that have inspired me. I can not wait to see what I come up with!
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/african-lady-in-red-patrick-hunt.html
Here is my second composition for my Foundations. For this one I painted the next color on the color wheel, yellow, with its complement, which is purple. We also rotated to the right so I was lucky enough to receive Danie’s collage to reference. I also was only allowed to use acrylic paints in this piece. Can’t wait for the next one!
Here is an amazing artist that I have been looking up to for a while.Bruni’s art has inspired me by her use of color. I love her blends and brush strokes. Please check out her website! http://brunijazzart.com/
Here is one out of four pieces of art that I am doing in my foundations class. This one is a monochromatic composition. I was assigned to capture yellow-orange objects and then combine the pictures to make a montage.
Here are my first ten monochromatic photos I have taken. My assignment was to take twenty. My color was yellow-orange. hope you like them!
Here are my photos for the monochromatic assignment. I picked out the pictures that represented in from simple to complicated. I hope you see the monochromatic in them!
Here is another open choice project because I missed last weeks. This is a photo shoot I did for my friend Grace. I will be doing one with a different theme every week. I shot at midnight under the dorms parking lot to give it a dark feel and used deep colors. Jackson and Charlie helped a great deal. This was really fun and can not wait to do it next week! Enjoy!!!
(These photos were created and belong to Alexnder Wolf Tsou)
Here is my own work for the week. This is for my Foundations class. These are pictures of the gum wall in Seattle WA. hope you all enjoy!
About me
My name is Alex and here is my blog for Cornish College of the Arts. I will be posting my own work as well as school assignments. Art is extraordinary! It shows emotions and beauty. It is a form that lets a human being go into another world. It lets the viewer see what the artist saw. Art tells a story no matter what form it is. Whether it is music, painting, dance, or writing, that is the beauty of art.
I was lucky enough to grow up with a lot of art techniques. I went to a private school called Portland Waldorf which is very artistic. Every one of our writings had to be incorporated with a drawing or a painting of some sort. We started with block crayons and then graduated to colored pencils, and acrylic paints. I also experienced with water colors. I also was lucky enough to explore other arts. Such as woodworking, black smithing, knitting, sewing, bookbinding, ceramics, etc.
When I became a senior in high school, I knew I wanted to create art as a living. For my senior project I did a report on this topic. I went around my city interviewing various artists. I learned about their struggles and their triumphs. It was a eye opener and when I graduated in 09, I knew I wanted to be a artist for the rest of my life.
I took a year off and decided to experience a art form that I knew nothing about. My friend’s mom knew a professional digital photographer and got us connected with each other. For seven months he taught me almost everything he knew.
There are several ways one can do photography; Art, fashion, landscapes, street, etc. I gained knowledge of all aspects and started to decide what I enjoyed shooting.
I fell in love with creating moods through pictures. My goal was to show the viewer what I saw, and what I felt. Looking at what was going on outside the picture and what was going on in me.
I also tried taking photos that don’t look like pictures at all. Examples like reflections, macro, and angles. I wanted to show the viewer what he or she forgets to see or doesn’t see everyday.
I also experienced the form of photography I like to call, “pressure shooting,” such as weddings. I was lucky to get hired to shoot three weddings on my year off. When shooting a wedding, one has to capture every precious moment of the ceremony. The most critical are the emotions in the bride and grooms faces. How much that moment means to them. It is the most important moment in their lives, and it is the photographers job to show that to everyone.
The people watching the wedding are also very important to capture as well: The parents watching their kids starting their lives in a whole new way, the brothers, sisters, cousins, friends, etc.
I have been influenced by so many people. My family and friends have supported me every moment and have given me a lot of advice, but my biggest influences have been my teachers. They have known me for the majority of my life and I am still in contact with them. They watched me grow in my skills for years and helped me improve.
Another influence I had was not a person, but was a place. In eighth grade I was lucky enough to go to Spain over the Summer. I got to experience amazing architecture as well as some wonderful street art. One of the street artist did a perspective drawing near some buildings. It looked like there was a pond at a certain angle. The of the most memorable moments of the trip was the bull fight. I was shocked and horrified but it is a form of art. The goal of the fight is to make the bull tired and give up. They do this by running up to the animal and stabbing it in the back with blades. This could last for five minutes, or a half hour. Finally the matador slays the bull in the neck with a long thin sword. I was so excited to see this sport but in the first minute or so, I was quiet for the rest of the time. Everyone around me was screaming and cheering yet I couldn't hear any of it. My eyes were just looking at the blood and vulgarity, but in the end, I strangely felt wonderful. I don’t know how, I was sick to my stomach in the stadium, but I was content. I then wrote about what I felt and painted a picture incorporated with my feelings. All in all it was one of the best things I have done in my life.
I love art, and I want to enjoy my path to learning every aspect of it. My goal in life is to gain as much knowledge as I can through other artists. Learn about their mistakes, successes, and their achievements. I wrote my senior theses on this topic and still believe what I said to this day. I want to live doing what I love to do, and that is to show others my emotions through art. I want to enjoy every second on learning the process, learn form my mistakes, grow as a person. We all have art inside us, I just want to express it to everyone. The whole world is one piece of art.
-Alex W. Tsou
