#fine art installation

[kaimoving]

Fine Art Installation in Highland Park, Dallas, TX

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[fashionlandscapeblog]

Anna Malagrida

La Dormeuse, 2003

[socratean]

Nam June Paik, Hamlet Robot, 1996. Video installation.

[webdiggerxxx]

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[beatcroc]

there's no way the bathroom at peppino's pizza is actually that big but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . hey ummm anyway.... i care them...... anyway there's a lil ramble on my take on fake pep's like psyche or whatever in tags on the og post if ur into that kinda thing :y

hey! it's a series! fake peppino world tour: [noise] [noisette] [peppino]<- u are here [gustavo] [gerome] [noisette again]

[fox-bright]

Erika Diamond Asheville, North Carolina 40% (quilt) 2022 Reflective vinyl fabric, batting, lined with “Super Snuggle Pride Pronouns Flannel Fabric” from JOANN(tm)

“The quilt lining signals the single most lifesaving factor in a gender-diverse child’s well-being: a parent using a child’s preferred pronouns. -Erika Diamond

Artist Erika Diamond uses the quilt form to highlight the specific challenges faced by queer youth today. Her quilt, made out of mirrored vinyl, alters the Virginia quilt square block to resemble the outline of a basic house. The artwork’s title, 40%(quilt), references the disproportionate amount of queer youth who are unhoused in Virginia.

Through this literally reflective quilt, Diamond asks us to reconsider the challenges and barriers queer youth face today, giving visibility to a group that is often overlooked.

(Photos taken by /u/Complex-Royal9210 at the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC, in June 2024. I am not Complex-Royal, but have their permission to share their photos here.)

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[beatcroc]

pest control.

bonus:

*UPDATE: i made a sequel

[introspective-wounds]

Inner wardrobe, shirt 5 close up

[fabric paint, embroidery, and beading on fabric]

[egophiliac]

Hello! Sorry to bother but do you have any digital art tips? I’m quite new to it and any tips, tricks or advice would be helpful! Your coloring style is very beautiful and I love it a lot!

thank you! 💚💚💚 sorry this is a bit late, hopefully there's still something helpful in it!

(also, it got pretty long, sorry!)

I think the biggest thing is to just take things slow -- digital art feels different than drawing traditionally, and it's SUPER easy to get overwhelmed by the billions of cool features that the digital world offers. (I say, as someone who spends a lot of time downloading cool brushes and textures...and then never using them ever.) there is a ton of really cool stuff you can do digitally, but because there's so much, I think it's really important to take time to figure out what is and isn't working for you. spend some time doodling without any intent to do a finished piece, figure out how you like to hold (or not hold) your tablet, what keyboard shortcuts you end up using a lot (and therefore might want to map to your pen/tablet buttons for quicker use)...that kind of thing!

everyone's workflow and preferred program and style are different, so it's hard to give hard-and-fast general advice. but the things that I think of as the essentials for learning digital art programs, and what I think of as a good order to focus on learning them in (although YMMV, especially depending on what kind of art you're doing):

brush customization (e.g. flow, opacity, softness)

layers and layer masks

selections and transformations (e.g. scale, rotate, flip horizontal/vertical, skew) (skew is underrated and I will die on that hill)

blending modes (e.g. multiply, screen)

adjustments/adjustment layers (e.g. hue/saturation, curves)

and I think most stuff after that is gravy! often very good gravy though! but yeah, as overall advice I recommend just taking things one little bit at a time, spending some time just drawing and messing around with each feature and what you can do with it. whether or not you end up incorporating any of it into your workflow, it's always good to try things out and just see how they feel! :D

and just so there is at least a little more concrete helpfulness in here, here's a few more specific things that I think are super important to keep in mind!

use! your! tablet/pen buttons! I mentioned this earlier, but they are extremely useful for keyboard shortcuts that you use often! most programs will also let you create new shortcuts for other things -- personally, I use the magic wand tool to fill in big color blocks a lot, so I made shortcuts for 'expand selection' and 'fill' and then mapped them to my tablet buttons.

flop your work horizontally often! when you're working on something, you get used to the way it looks, so seeing it mirrored is a quick way to see it with fresh eyes! in my experience, it often feels like this:

(a common thing is to find that everything is sort of 'leaning' too much one way, which is where skew really comes in handy!) (seriously, I love skew, it is my savior)

if you're working with color, keep a hue/saturation adjustment layer (or a layer filled with black or white and set to Color) on top and toggle it on occasionally to check your values! a lot of people who know a lot more about color than me (and are better at putting it into words) have written about why values are so important, so all I'll say is that the rule of thumb is that your image should still be readable in greyscale:

there are some exceptions and grey areas (do ho ho), but it's a good general rule to keep in mind! (some programs also have a colorblind mode, so you can check to see how your work will look to someone with colorblindness!)

and finally, here's some digital art programs I recommend, if you're still looking for a good one!

free: krita, FireAlpaca

paid: ClipStudio, Procreate (iOS/iPad only)

[skf-fineart]

Rebecca Horn (1944-2024) Am Kreuz, 2004 acrylic, pencil, and colored pencil on paper

[feuilletourne-sir20]

Tournefeuille, arbres et sculpture

Tournefeuille, trees and sculpture

by sir20 for feuilletourne-sir20

[pushing500]

You should probably replace Kwahu's hand first, then Mechi's leg. Kwahu is in NO condition to do surgery, lol

Oh, don't worry. Mechi is clever enough not to let a newly one-armed person anywhere near him with a scalpel, no matter how competent they may be with medical stuff.

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Joan Jonas

Mirage, 1976

Six videos (black and white, sound and silent; duration variable), props, stages, and photographs, dimensions variable.

Photo: Benjamin Blackwell.

[buggggyyyy]

residence of a soul (home)

sculptural installation from my recent show

materials: taxidermy rabbit, red electrical wire, copper sheeting

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Fine Press Friday!  

Today we’re taking a closer look at some of Indianapolis-based artist Carl Pope’s (b. 1961 ) work—a portfolio of broadsides produced for the installation series The Bad Air Smelled of Roses. The edition in our collection consists of 71 letterpress prints of varying dimensions (all around 56 x 36 cm) produced with wood type at York Show Prints in York, Alabama (formerly run by Amos Paul Kennedy, whose works are also represented in our collection) and Tribune Showprint in Earl Park, Indiana (“the oldest continuously operating letterpress shop in the country”) on poster and chip board between 2004-2005, nearly all of which are signed by the artist.  

Pope characterizes the work, which has grown since its original iteration to include 108 posters, as “an ongoing essay about the presence and function of Blackness in society” and an exploration of the "various psychological and emotional states like forgetfulness, insanity, alienation" associated with "the poetics of Blackness." He chose to present a selection of texts drawn from a variety of sources including “modern Black literature, René Descartes, jazz and rap music, Sigmund Freud, Malcolm X, Dolly Parton, movie dialogue from Casablanca and The Matrix...” in letterpress print form because of the medium’s historical associations with marketing and political activism.   

When installed in the rarified context of an art gallery or museum, as this series has now been exhibited on numerous occasions, the commercial qualities of Pope’s posters incite a productive slippage in our assumptions around high and low culture. As he puts it in a 2018 interview with Hyperallergic, “I don’t see culture as the production of beautiful paintings and works of art, you know, although culture includes that. For me the production of progressive culture is the collaborative practice with myself and other people in the world of ideals, to create and to advance human evolution... I’m not interested in using art as a tool for cultural imperialism.”     

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– Ana, Special Collections Graduate Fieldworker