Project 3 Research
Ann Hamilton:
- Ann Hamilton is a well-known artist and faculty member at The Ohio State University who studied textile design and sculpture.
- She works in the mediums of installations, photographs, videos, performances, sculpture, verbal and written language, and textiles. She states in all her art when making a decision, she is “interested in the relationships between things in space. And more important than the things themselves is the way they come into relation.”
- I looked at her body of work titled Body Series for research for this project. In this series, she states her work is “the practice of taking inanimate objects from installations and, in joining them to the body, changing their function and psychological relation.”
Body Objects Series:
Tooth Pick Suit-1984
I think this series works well in showing how inanimate objects can become extensions of our own bodies. It explores the relationship between objects to the human form.
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Phillip Toledano:
- Phillip Toledano is a conceptual artist whose main medium is photography.
- In his series Hope and Fear, he creates open-ended artwork that uses real sculpturally made artwork integrated into the human body. In this series, he leaves the interpretation open-ended, but it focuses on Societal problems in America.
- While I am not very interested in the subject of his artwork, I thought it was an interesting artist to include because of the way hw takes objects and creates extensions of the human body and photographs them. His technique in integrating artwork into and out of the human form is inspiring.
Hope and Fear
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Dalia Khalife:
(Dah-lee-ah Kaw-lif)
- Dalia is a Lebanese artist who works among all types of mediums, but mainly through installations.
- In her art, she “examines psychophysiological happenings within power structures, social events, and rituals, that manifest as primitive moments of ambiguity and shared vulnerability.”
- I included her because I was interested in her artwork below titled “Body Augm”. In this artwork she created a 3D form that is extending and apart of the human body. I couldnt find any information on what the concept of the project was about but I thought it was an interesting way to extend/morph the human body. Her process designs were also helpful when researching this project.
Body Augm
Ariel Lavery
I included this student artist as an example I found of the body extensions project, I thought it was interesting how he created a functional piece of artwork that was engineered with his body to move and change. I am interested in doing something similar.
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Concept Sketches
