Family

MY DAD LIKES TO FISH A LOT, SO I HAVE HIM FISHING IN THE BACK YARD(ITS NOT REAL, IT LOOKS LIKE IT), SHOWING OFF HIS FISH, GARDENING, AND WORKING ON A HOUSE.

MY BROTHER PLAYING HIS GUITAR, READING, AND ACTING LIKE A KID(CLIMBING IN THE TREE.

MY MOM READING AND SEWING.

MY DAUGHTER (LAURA) LOOKING AT HER BOOKS AND GOOFING AROUND

MY DAUGHTER EATING.

MY SON (LANGDON) SITTING IN HIS STROLLER, PLAYING, AND ON THE BOOB.

This is what I was thinking for my final: taking pictures of my family and what they do throughout the week or what they like doing in their spare time. I couldn't take photos of my other brother because he lives in Paris. I also can't take photos of my sister and my other older siblings because they also live in different areas.

Affordable Art Fair

I would really love to go to New York to see all of the fascinating Art Fairs and Galleries. I will some day. I know i will.
The Affordable Art Fair — dedicated to works priced from $100 — begins today. Stop by to browse, learn (the Aperture Gallery hosts a talk about contemporary portraiture) or party. There’s an evening reception tonight and then a cheaper afterparty with dancing and video installations at Pier 66 (next to the Frying Pan). And if you buy, follow the framing tips that Helen Allen, an organizer of the event, employs, like using simple colored binder clips, patterned tape from Droog or a frame made from wainscoting salvaged from post-Katrina New Orleans.

Here is another show that I found. It seems very interesting
Martin Kippenberger's "Spiderman-Atelier (Spiderman Studio)" at the Museum of Modern Art.
Have a hard time dealing with the tourists who crowd museums on weekends? Tonight is your chance to see — and hear — art with the locals. MoMA’s galleries are open until 8:45 p.m. (the Martin Kippenberger retrospective, which Holland Cotter called “complex, theatrical, and new-feeling art,” closes in a week), there’s a screening and discussion of the avant-garde director Péter Forgács’s work, and music courtesy of the arty experimentalist Prefuse 73. In honor of bike month, riders get half-off admission.

This might be interesting to you, Vaughn.

Swedish one man band

I thought this was interesting because i like percussion music, since my brother is in a band and he plays the drums.
The Swedish one-man band known as Loney Dear creates “pop crescendos of dizzying ingenuity,” writes Jon Pareles, building on exquisite melodies by “whistling, harmonizing, stepping up the percussion, simulating horn and string sections, making synthesizers pulsate and flutter all around.” His new album, “Dear John,” is sad, but Beach Boys sad. He performs Tuesday night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg with local singer-songwriter Lia Ices.

What is art for?

Well, for me art is for showing students how to express themselves through what they are feeling that day or throughout the week. I am wanting to be an art teacher to help students with their art career and make a difference in their lives. Art is much more than just painting, or taking a photo; it's helping people to learn the outside world and within yourself.

More Paris

Paris, Tx

This is my brother. He lives in Paris and I met him there.

David Hockney project

Art Hamptons-The International Art Fair

Opening July 9-12 in the Hamptons for museum-quality modern and contemporary art. It is limeited to 68 booths artwork shown includes paintings, drawings, prints, photography, and sculpture. The fair provides local, national and international collectors with a rare summer opportunity.

me, myself and me

These are a few photos of me for the Kelly Connell assignment.

The movies

I watched the movie "Knowing" yesterday and I did not like it. It was to strange for me. It was exciting at the beginning but then it just got creepier at the end. It was even scary which I did not like. I was not expecting it to turn out like it did.

More drawings and paintings

oil painting 3' *5'

pen and ink

It's hard being a mother

So many responsibilities:

Feed them.

Bathe them.

Help them brush their teeth.

Clothe them.

Brush their hair.

Tend to their every need.

It's also fun:

Take them to the park.

Play games with them.

Draw with them.

Let them draw and paint on their own.

Teach them their ABCs, numbers, words.

Teach them every thing I know.

Watch them learn and play.

These are my self portraits

Vaughn told us to put our self portraits on the blog.

Some of My Paintings and Drawings

pen and ink
oil painting
acrylic paint

oil painting of my nephews

House of Mind

Here is an article about Pat Graney and his work including, sculpture, installation, video, and choreographed performances. This is a tribute to memory for the artist, her mother, and the lost bit of America. Her work first occupied in the theater and main spaces of DiverseWorks. The whole installation has been moved to the main gallery. The article goes on and talk about several pieces of hers and tells about how it relates to her mother and her other memories.

The critic, theorist, and sometimes curator, David Hickey, wrote in one of his essays, "...three decades of art theory and art history have destroyed our understanding of art practice."
He also says that the young artists now has lost the sound footing of history(as he called it).
He has a list of ten that supports his statement.
1)Pluralism
2) Self-Indulgence
3)Rousseau.
4)Suzi Gablik
5)Let's take some responsibility
6.)Jean Baudrillard, in The Conspiracy of Art
7.)www.youtube.com
8) Lane Relyea
9)Surrealism
10)Tracey Emin

Here are some images I thought was cool

I did not emulate anyone though.

photographers

Ansel Adams-black and white images
Andy Warhol-uses a lot of color which i like.
Rick Doble-uses his own shadows.
Patrick Jablonski-does landscape photography which looks like shapes in nature.

Patti Levey

55 Things About Me

1.) My favorite color is light purple.

2.) I am 24 years old.

3.) I like all kinds of music so I don't really know which is my favorite.

4.) I grew up in Commerce all of my life.

5.) I have 4 brothers and 2 sisters, but one died 9 years ago.

6.) I have like 10 nephews.

7.) This is very strange but my mom and dad has lived next to each other whenever they first met.

8.) I am very patient

9.) I have a tattoo of my daughter's initials and a paintbrush on my left shoulder.

10.) I want to get my sons initials which is L.S.L.L.M.

11.) My favorite sport is probably volleyball.

12.) I couldn't tell you my favorite movie. There are to many.

13.) I love using color.

14.) Whenever I look at things, I think of art.

15.) I practically was around boys all of my life.

16.) So i like doing boy things such as: playing pool, fishing, bowling.

17.) Now I have kids so I don't do stuff like that anymore.

18.) I really have'nt gone anywhere out of Texas except for Oklahoma.

19.) I have been to Columbus, Tx; San Antonio, Tx; thats about it.

20.) My favorite thing to do now is playing with my kids, and doing kids stuff.

21.) I like to paint, draw.

22.) I have been at Texas A&M Commerce for like almost 6 years.

23.) painting is my major and with a teachers certification.

23.) My kids take up a lot of my time, but I love being a mother.

24.) I'm pretty quite at first, but once you get to know me I think i start talking a little more.

25.) I don't liek public speaking.

26.) I get so nervous, sweaty palms, heart beats out of my chest, can't talk well.

27.) I have 2 beautiful children, Laura-3; Langdon-17 months.

28.) i am kindhearted

29.) I try to stay away from danger.

30.) I don't like people who thinks they are better than everyone else.

31.) I don't smoke.

32.) I don't drink alcohol.

33.) I don't like people who drinks or smokes.

34.) I have breast cancer that runs in my family and my aunt died from it.

35.) My grandma lived it.

36.) I am part Irish and German.

37.) I had many nicknames growing up such as Amelia Bedelia, Pumpkin, Bush (because in fifth grade I had a perm and it was short right next to my head. It looked like a bush on top of my head.)

38.) I went to Commerce High School, didn't like it much though. I liked the art teacher.

39.) I like to sew by hand but not really on a sewing machine. i don't like to fix it everytime.

40.) I don't wear to much makeup i don't really like it.

41.) I am doing my student teaching this fall.
42.) I am nervous about it.
43.) I signed up late for it.
44.) I just hope I'll get the level I want.
45.) I like nature and old houses.
46.) I have been in the jury art show for almost every year I have been here.
47.) One of my drawings, when I was in high school, went to washington D.C.
48.) I have long fingernails. People is very surprised when they see them.
49.) I have long brown hair.
50.) I like to watch movies when I have a chance.

51.) I love to listen to music with my children.

52.) I like to dance with them as well.

53.) I have my ears pierced.

54.) I want my nose pierced.

55.) I really want to paint.

I fixed these pictures

The OlympusContest

Here is the image I am sending in for the Olympus Contest.  Vaughn wanted us to put it up on the blog so here it is.

Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander was born Aberdeen, Washington, in 1934.  He fell in love with photography as a teenager.  

Art Sinsabaugh

Art Sinsabaugh was born in Irvington, New Jersey in 1924.  He married twice and has 2 daughters.  He studied photography under Laszlo Moholy Nagy, Harry Callihan, and Arthur Seigel at the institute of Design IIT.  He served as a photographer for the War Department from 1942-43 and with the U.S. Army from 1943-45.  He went to teach at the ID from 1949- 59.  He made a break through as an artist in the early 1960s with a glant "banquet" camera that produced 12*20 inch negatives.  He captured the sweeping horizons of nature and the relationships between the land and its conventional components He has received many awards starting with New Talent U.S.A., Society of Typographic Arts Award, Art Directors Club of Indiana Award.  He has also received several grants such as:  Illinois Arts Council Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowship, and numerous University of Illinois faculty research grants. 

The picture of Audrey came from the photographer/journalist: Martha Cooper. She shoots graffiti and behind Audrey is graffiti.
I will put more on this blog later.

Pictures of Terianne

I know these pictures have the date at the bottom. i will fix that. something happened to the ones I fixed.