Installation artists

Matter: The title of this installation is Eat Your Peas. This installation is a one person surrealism performance which took place inside at the gallery's restroom. The side of the location proximately measures 80 square feet and covered with black and white tiles. The restroom’s walls were smeared all over with chocolate fudge; furthermore, written on one of the walls was the title of the installation “Eat Your Peas “which it seemed to be a focal point of the installation. The room lighting…

The Renwick Gallery’s exhibition titled “Wonder” brings nine contemporary artists to create installations in each room of the building. The room I entered had to work of the artist, Tara Donovan. Her installation was large mountains of index cards that towered up to the ceiling of the large room they were in. As I walked in, I could not tell what the mountains were made of, but as I got closer I could see the individual components of the piece. The amount of index cards used for these…

The artistic reactions to formative events and sentiments of their time designed a portrait of an era, which revealed complex social changes, turbulent political developments and rapid technological progress. Since the end of the second World War artists conceptualized new artistic ideas like autonomy, authorship, form, originality and transformed them into their own language in order to find a new artistic technique. One of these new techniques of how to deal with the new paradigms of the time…

of things, but their inward significance.” Behind every physical piece of artwork comes a deeper significance. Whether it may be an unearthed, individual perspective or a political discussion, art has no boundaries in which expression is limited. Artists often manipulate media and technology to express their own relationships with their environments as a result of their individual context, where in the final product not only exhibits an external appearance, but discusses an embedded significance…

In Martha Ward’s essay Impressionist Installations and Private Exhibitions, Ward explores the ways in which the location of exhibitions and the way that they were organized impacted painting in late nineteenth-century Paris. With the art market flourishing and governmental policies encouraging independence, it was wise for artists such as the Impressionists to branch out and showcase their works in diverse ways. Throughout her essay, Ward stresses the varying “social and aesthetic distinctions…

three part documentary series The Great Barrier Reef, which addresses the deterioration of the coral reef. The artwork I plan takes further inspiration from artists including Margaret and Christine Wertheim, Bansky and Jenny Pollack. The Wertheims’ The Bleached Reef and Jenny Pollak’s One Degree of Separation, both of which are installations, reference the fragility of coral reef ecosystems (Pollak, 2012; Wertheim and Wertheim, n.d). The focus and subject matter - particularly in The Bleached…

glass bottles on the shelves which are filled with various artifacts and substances. Joseph Cornell is was an American sculptor (b 1903) and was contemporary of Duchamp, Rothko and Warhol;; yet he was known to be a bit of a recluse. Funnily enough artist Edward Hopper was also born in the same town as Cornell and he too had a reputation of being socially awkward. Unlike Hirst, Cornell's work often featured the theme of a ‘cabinet’ or a ‘box’. ‘The box is the central metaphor of Joseph…

In diverse manners, artists often successfully reflect, and display the impact and relationship humans have with the environment. This allows for society and the general population to further explore and understand their place within both the natural and unnatural world. Artists such as Jill Orr, Lin Onus and Andy Goldsworthy successfully reciprocate this by responding to the physical environment- and situations they are positioned in- through their creations of thought provoking art. These…

Environmental art is an avenue for artists to communicate beauty, illustrate natural processes or educate society on environmental issues through their artistic expression. Michele Brody’s environmental art, Arbor Lace (2002), is an outdoor vegetation installation which creates an inviting and ever-changing experience for the viewer yet also reveals the beauty of natures’ treasured resources. When viewing the installation for the first time, one may be curious of the purpose and function of the…

purpose of all of this was for her to experiment with her body, to try something new. Antoni stated, “I’m really interested in the repetition, the discipline, and what happens to me psychologically when I put my body to that extreme place.” Another installation Antoni did to the extreme, was Slumber in 1994. Antoni slept in a gallery, hooked up to an EEG machine, which printed and weaved her sleep waves onto a long…