#CarmenArgote

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Welcome to Fiber Sculpture!

This blog explores textiles to supplement the content I cover in the fiber class I teach each semester at CSULB. This Fall we will explore a variety of off-loom textile structures within a contemporary sculpture context. We will examine and research these techniques from a contemporary art perspective, in hopes of finding ways that these ideas, materials, processes, and techniques can serve to enhance your own developing art practice.

Check this blog regularly for links to important course information, tutorials and supplemental material to enhance our lectures, homework assignments and other class updates, and more as we explore the world of fiber sculpture.

Images from top:

Jim Drain, exhibition view of 2007 show “I would gnaw on my hand”. I’m looking forward to seeing a new exhibition of Drain’s work coming up on September 10th at the Pit II, here in Los Angeles.

Carmen Argote, “Place On-Fold” installation view, showing at the Orange County Museum of Art this past summer.

A Nari Ward project made with shoelaces from 2011.

Recent work by Isabel Yellin. If you like this, check out her work in person this coming September 9th through October 7th at Night Gallery in LA.

Josh Faught, Legs, 2013.

Sculptures made with pipecleaners by Don Porcella  You can see his work until September 2nd in a group show in LA called Trapper Keeper.

A screen shot view of me watching one video from a 13 channel video project called “Manifesto” by Julian Rosefeldt. Read more about the project and watch the video here.

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Art Statement #2 Feedback Session

Art Statement #2 is due today, posted to your blogs. Together in a small group, read each artist’s statements for the first part of class time.

Work together to give honest critical feedback on how theses words are operating in relationship to the artists work. Isolate the parts of each statement version that offer the most specific information about the work. Help each other to identify the parts of the statement versions that are redundant, general and unnecessary, or vague.

After each artist has their statement feedback, you are free to work independently in your studios for the remaining class session.

Images above:

These images are by artist Carmen Argote for her current artist in residence project at 18th Street Art Center in Los Angeles. Check out the show, on view through March 23rd, called “If only if were that easy”.

From the press release:

“As a multidisciplinary artist working in installation, Carmen Argote explore notions of home and place, interacting with architecture to reflect on personal histories and her own immigrant experience. She works with places and materials that surround her, utilizing local resources as points to expand from. Her practice uses the act of inhabiting as a starting point, allowing the work to take form as she respond to a space, materials and ideas developing from her own experiences and relationships to a site.

She works from an intimate and personal place, using shared experiences to connect the spaces that house us to notions of home and self. Often working with family, she explores the common immigrant experience as a layered, multigenerational, transnational experience that is echoed though shared memories, traumas, and aspirations, extending outward from the intimate space of home.

During her Artist Lab residency, Carmen Argote will be developing a performance on January 20, 2018 titled If only it were that easy… for the Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA. An amateur motorcycle rally organized around an architectural mind map of the artist’s making, the work centers on a social exploration of motorcycle riding as a cognitive dream space akin to the “zone” or “flow” of artistic creation, inviting artists and culture workers who ride motorcycles themselves to collectively teach the artists about riding and about life.”

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All the artists of #MiTierraDAM show at the @denverartmuseum yesterday at the end of the press preview. The show opens to the public this Sunday. #carmenargote #jaimecarrejo #gabrieldawe #claudiodicochea #danielaedburg #justinfavela #anateresafernandez #ramirogomez #johnjotaleaños #dimitriobergfell #rubenochoa #daisyquezada #xochisolis

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Artist Alexandra Grant, @grantalexandra, sharing here her early childhood experiences of motorcycle rides - accompanied by artist Carmen Argote, who spent this afternoon in Griffith Park engaging the audience with her performance with motorcycles entitled "If only it were that easy..." Poignant words spoken throughout the afternoon by various speakers expressing their connections with the world of motorcycling - which I also hold dear to my heart - having gained my motorcycle license before my car license! There were many stories that I could strongly identify with regarding connectivity; a powerful sense of freedom - alongside a heightened awareness of our own fragility/mortality. Artist Residency by Carmen Argote now at the 18th Street Arts Center through to March 23 - highly recommend. @18thstreetartscenter 👍🎥🎨🏍 #artist #performanceart #motorcycle #griffithpark #losangeles #carmenargote #alexandragrant #18thstreetartscenter (at Griffith Park)

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A big thank you to all our artists for making the Metro system so beautiful and remarkable! LA Weekly just included us in their 2016 "Best of" issue for our art collection!  Read more here.   

In addition, Metro artist Carmen Argote was named "best up-and-coming artist," with a special mention of her artwork for 17th St/SMC Station. Go Carmen!!!  More here.

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Delightful conversation with Carmen Argote about her wonderfully layered and moving exhibition, My father's side of home @human resources. #carmenargote