#ArtistsStatements

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[selenaevans-art]

If you were to describe or define the style of my work, what would you say? It seems common practice to give an -Artists Statement' for things like advertising etc. I can happily describe why I do what I do, what inspires me, what drives me. But when it comes to describing my own work I have a complete mental block. I can just about handle describing techniques, but any further and it just feels cringy. Help please 😂 Xx #mentalblock #artistsstatement #artistsprocess #mystyle #mywork #mycreations #catsanddogs #opposites #standoff #textilesculpture #textilesculptureartist #sculpture #sculptureartist #fiberartist #textileartist #britishmaker #britishfiberart #asktheaudience #helpneeded https://www.instagram.com/p/CQilFkin936/?utm_medium=tumblr

[postinternetartcassieg]

Artist Statement

What Is Art?; An exploration between Print, Screens and Social Media

As a digital photography student there has always been challenges and controversy in the art industry regarding the digital photographic medium being ‘real art’ or a real fine art form. With the expansion and progression of the internet, but most significantly social media platforms such as Instagram, the debate keeps getting more convoluted. In this modern era anyone with a phone and an Instagram account can call themselves a ‘photographer’ posting their images and videos instantly to their followers and the viral social internet sphere. My concept relies on creating a conversation between tangible art and art presented on screen and which is more valid but really they are equal. My goal with this install is to just lay it all out. 3 digital collage prints, beside 3 different screens and platforms from which the collages were created with.

[zaydaliciousdesigns]

Green Mermaid with Blue Bubble - watercolor and dry pastel mixed media painting. Such a descriptive title, so original, much wow (sarcasm). But I’m not here to slap cool titles on things. I’m just here to make pretty things that invite contemplation. Someone was telling me recently that while cool, my bubble mermaids aren’t easy to relate to and if I come up with meaning or characteristics for them to help viewers connect to the world the mermaids are in. The thing is, I’m not here to tell you what the bubbles mean. I know why I put them there. The mermaid is contemplating the bubble, finding her own meaning in it, and she invites you to join her in looking at something in front of you with a more discerning eye... So, all that said, what does the bubble mean to you? Piece available in my Etsy store, link in bio. #artistsstatement #artistsoninstagram #pnwartist #bubble #bluebubble #mermaid #mermaidhair #greenhair #underwaterscene #blue #green #watercolor #watercolorpainting #drypastel #mixedmediaart #mixedmediapainting #contemplate #contemplation #zaydalicious #zaydaliciousdesigns #think #useyourmind #stopandstare https://www.instagram.com/p/CBZMk37hqfN/?igshid=1h8aev49ksrcm

[anthonyinkco]

Since I’ve gained several new potential clients and followers recently, I wanted to take the time to post a pic introducing myself in my “art studio.” My work explores the relationship between what is abstract and yet what is recognizable at first glance and also at times focuses on a painterly response to my take on realism. I try to bring a unique perspective to imagery whether it’s emotional in nature or just because the client enjoys it. I look forward to creating an amazing piece with this focus each and every day. 🙌🏽🙏🏽🎨 #anthonyinkco #inkcompanytattoos #tattooartist #artist #artistsoninstagram #artistsstatement #hattiesburgms #mississippi #hattiesburg #mississippiartist #southernartist #differentisbetter (at The Ink Company)

[rjpesquire]

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WHAT SHOULD BE THE FEAR: Will Smith on Charlie Rose (2002) Will was on the show promoting Ali, film a loved and the sparked a life-long obsession with not only Will but Muhammad Ali. I saw this interview then, when the film was being released... but I'm only just now realizing I'd internalized this sentiment from Smith, and turned it into my own statement of purpose. This is as clearly as it can be put, who I am, and why I am like this. This is what I was talking about @profdork. Also @james3rdcomedy & @kblumusic, y'all are SUPER wrong about this movie. Lastly, WHAT SHOULD BE THE FEAR is only jst getting started. Rumble young man, rumble. #WillSmith #CharlieRose #MuhammadAli #Fear #courage #purpose #theonlythingwehavetofearisfearitself #fearitself #bumaye #interview #statementofpurpose #artistsstatement (at Charlie Rose Show)

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Moving shadows #natural #light #leweekend #maple #suburbia #fraservalley #artistsstatement

[marketing-art-online]

How to Write an Artist Statement That Sells Art

Do you need to write an artist statement if you are selling art online? Do you need an artist statement if you sell art at craft shows?

The answer is, you should have an artist statement no matter where you will be selling your art.

#art #artist #artisttips #sellart #marketing #entrepreneur #artistsstatement

[jcbrito]

Not spending as much time on drawing our even sculpture as I like to and still being productive. One doesn't simply stop being an artist when they're away from their studio or desk. I want my art to be in everything I do. In the way I perceive the world. In the way I interact with it. Why not? My mother always supported my creativity and always told me, "share your gift with the world". Gifts come in many forms. #artpractice #artistsstatement #everythingiseverything

[emmasmith1919-blog]

Composite Portrait

For my final project, I will be compositing portraits of people and places that they love. Since, I am unable to get out and do a lot of shooting I will be experimenting with photoshop to make for more interesting portraits.

All of these photos, I took myself. I think this project means a lot to the people involved and I hope to create meaningful portraits using art and photography.

#ArtistsStatement CompositePortraits DigitalPhotography

[rubyudys]

‘Sulci Fungi’ Artists Statement

‘Sulci Fungi’, Ruby Udys, 2021, 50cm x 70cm, oil on canvas. (Available for sale: https://www.rubyudys.com/product-page/sulci-fungi )    

 Dream Scented Rushes was the third exhibition I have contributed my artwork to as well as my third effort as assistant curator in collaboration with curator and artist, Azzurro.  

I am so thankful for the experience and for having Azzurro trust me in the curation process, its an art in itself!

I'd like to share my artist statements, along with the artworks I contributed to this group show. The artist statement is detailed below.

The indentation lines on a brain are called, ‘sulci’ or ‘sulcus’. The biggest sulci on our brains separates it into two halves. The raised part of the brain is called a ‘gyrus’. To me, while I’m relatively unfamiliar with the terms, sound like components to a sci-fi narrative. The form of our brains with their organically fortuitous sulcus’ are capable of amazing things. Fungus has insighted curious theories, including Terrance Mckenna’s ‘Stoned Ape’ theory. Wherein, “psilocybin mushrooms (magic mushrooms) were the "evolutionary catalyst" from which language, projective imagination, the arts, religion, philosophy, science, and all of human culture sprang” (Appendix II: The Stoned Ape Hypothesis.) 

Radiotrophic fungus was found with the ability to turn radiation in Chernobyl into energy. Mushrooms interact with their environment so cleverly; their diverse form is so intriguing too. Its understandable that fungi or toadstools are so prevalent as imagery in fairy tales etc.   

The shapes and purpose of both brains and fungi are, upon further inspection, otherworldly. These globules that we live among, fungi and brains, grasped my imagination for this piece, to create a Wonderland that is unfamiliar, yet entirely reflective of our present reality.   

[rubyudys]

‘Post-Humorous’ Artists Statement (2021).

 ‘Post-Humorous’, Ruby Udys, 2021, oil on canvas, 101.6cm x152.4cm, (SOLD), for the Azzurro curated, Chateau Apollo exhibition, ‘The Illusion of Fame', February the 10th 2021.      

The colloquial phrase “skeleton in the closet” was first written as far back as 1816, “used to describe an undisclosed fact about someone which, if revealed, would damage perceptions of the person; It evokes the idea of someone having had a human corpse concealed in their home for so long that all its flesh had decomposed to the bone.”   

Morbidly, fame is often ‘awarded’ after death, particularly to artists. Value and attraction of artists and their work is applied posthumously, which begs to ask these questions, what is the value of fame while you are alive? And if fame is so sought after, is there a value to death?  

The relativity of a person’s ‘fame’ is so often temporal, people in the public eye will often disappear without a trace, their relevance expires. In the short or long stints in the celebrity sphere, celebrities are pedestalled while also being ridiculed. What keeps the people of the public eye relatable and ‘human’ is so often what is privatised, until that is exposed and the illusion of fame dissolves�� 

What is able to dissolve the illusion of fame has range, it could be an unflattering paparazzi photograph (ala, Britney Spears) or more maliciously, the predatory acts of Harvey Weinstein. However vain or exploitive the death of fame is, the skeletons unveiled cast a dark shadow on a life which is so deeply desired by many. 

Whatever the worth of fame, it comes at a price, your skeletons may be pulled out of the closet...

[rubyudys]

‘On the Plumage of Birds’ Artists Statement

‘On the Plumage of Birds’, Ruby Udys, 2021,18cm x 12.5cm, digital illustration printed on poster paper. (Limited prints available at: https://www.rubyudys.com/product-page/on-the-plumage-of-birds ).   

Dream Scented Rushes was the third exhibition I have contributed my artwork to as well as my third effort as assistant curator in collaboration with curator and artist, Azzurro.    I am so thankful for the experience and for having Azzurro trust me in the curation process, its an art in itself!  I'd like to share my artist statements, along with the artworks I contributed to this group show: 

“Before the discovery of Australia, people in the Old World were convinced that all swans were white, an unassailable belief as it seemed completely confirmed by empirical evidence. The sighting of the first black swan might have been an interesting surprise for a few ornithologists (and others extremely concerned with the coloring of birds), but that is not where the significance of the story lies. It illustrates a severe limitation to our learning from observations or experience and the fragility of our knowledge. One single observation can invalidate a general statement derived from millennia of confirmatory sightings of millions of white swans” (Taleb, 2007), all it took was one black swan! 

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professor of sciences, has devoted time to the consideration and labelling of life’s most improbable events. Events that lie outside the realm of regular expectations, as it where when the white settlers discovered black swans on Indigenous land. He uses this example of the white settlers discovering something that once seemed ‘improbable’ as a ‘Black Swan event’. Examples of Black Swan events include World War one, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the September 11 attacks, the 2008 financial crisis, the rise of the internet and personal computers, etc.  (Taleb, 2007). 

Without the hindsight we have now, the consideration of these aforementioned events in their worldview-altering ways, are absurd. A black swan event takes us from “How could two planes fly into the twin towers?” to “How couldn’t two planes fly into the twin towers? 

Our experiences of reality are shaped by our expectations of reality. We are amongst surrealism, absurdity, and possibility, each and every day. Surely that qualifies our living experience akin to Wonderland? If there is possibility for terror, there is possibility for enchantment. There is inherent magic in the native wildlife naturally found in Australia. We are amongst creatures and culture beyond any imagination, or at least to the untrained eye. You won’t believe it until you see it…

Reference: Taleb, N. (2007). The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. Penguin.