Ultimate Reality

I went to a music show last night, and it was a spectacle of weird. Ultimate Reality with Jimmy Joe Roche seriously outdid Dan Deacon, if I can be so bold.

The reason I posted this for my art blog, is because it was crossed over into what I consider art. On a huge screen, a narrative psychedelic mirror image hybrid of most Schwarzenegger movies unraveled... while two drummers bang away to melodic synthesizers.

The experience was so weird... and ironically profound.

It really draws my attention to music video art. Multi-media, who'd of thunk it?

Their video as follows:

Art Shop

Blindness

For some reason in the wee hours of this morning, I was thinking about blindness, the idea of going blind at this point in my life. I decided I would not give up art, maybe do music more... but I would still paint.

Blind painters are a bit of a novelty, I've looked at a few. They're always trying to be representational, they work it out to fake painting recognizably. This is such a mistake. It ends up looking kitsch. Basically not being able to see lends nothing to trying to represent realism.

However... if they knew anything about conceptual art, it's actually an opportunity to make important work. It would be about abstraction, movement and the process of painting. Someone not cluttered by visuality doesn't have owe anything to it. Or maybe it could be about the memory of seeing.

They're catering to the dumb masses by not exploring abstraction (the only art they could do), shackled to the representation. So far I've seen blind painters basically do colour by numbers. It's child's play. I wish they'd get more conceptual about it, it's rich with noteworthy possibilities.

I'll try a blindfolded painting, maybe it will work into a project at school. I'll post what I come up with, ABSTRACTION that is. Although, if something representation came out of it miraculously, that'd be really cool.

That is that....

The Rabbit Catcher

Here's my pride and joy. Possibly my best large scale painting thus far. I've done some work to touch it up because there's a painting competition at Emily Carr coming up. The first image is the old version, the latter the new.





You'd be able to tell how much I improved the body of the female figure and the path if you saw it in full form. I'm happy with it. I just hope I get into at least the Concourse show related to this competition.

Wish me Luck!

The Internet

I'd like to voice my concerns about the internet... so many websites to keep track of for art exposure.

Let's list:

taraleeguildart.blogspot.com
tngart.com
taraleeart.ca.tt
myartspace
tguild.etsy.com

Updates, posts, generally keeping track... then what's the best way to promote them, which one is the best to promote...

Also, how should I comprehensibly link all my art sites?

It's so much work. This technological age runs a mile a minutes. My attention span isn't short enough for this rapid movement.

ps. school starts tonight. science of all things... art science. We'll see what they have to say for themselves.

Gaff Doom

If I had started this blog a few months ago, it would be known that I've been "courting" a local gallery. You know, getting involved, volunteering, doing their web design, doing a residency when it turned into a studio. Eventually I hoped to show there, whether group or the coveted solo show, pop my solo show cherry and all. I was slowly bidding my time to see how that works. I learnt a lot. But now, the Gaff Gallery is closing its doors for good. I officially showed there once at an auction. Oh well. I'll have to venture to new Vancouver art gallery venues.

Here is a collection of studies I drew during my time there. I made it into a little 'zine.

Eye Candy

Chico

Gun 2

Equation

I have to put some images on here... I'm not one for just text. Here's some random favs of mine. I'll discuss particular work more in depth when it's appropriate.

Introduction / Dealing with Archiving work

Welcome to my blog, this will predominately be about art.

I guess I'll contextualize myself, as an art producer anyway...

...23 year old painter located in Vancouver currently in 2nd year at Emily Carr for Visual Arts.

I'll definitely talk about school in the future, and if this upcoming semester is anything like the last I'll certainly have a number of rants about lectures and critiques I disagree with.

I'm very much intending on posting lots and lots of images of my work... but since I've yet to get to it my website is tngart.com.

I can't wait to start scanning some of my drawings too... I literally have dozens of binders filled with drawing archives. I love organizing and seeing really old work. My drawings from high school and from the notorious NFO work doodles are interesting... I used to love drawing more then anything else.

The editing process is tough. Generally I try to through out the clutter. Drawings that aren't quit worthwhile have to get recycled. Sometimes I find myself trying to decide if even more finished work is good enough to keep. Eventually I'd like only the best drawings to stay. My precious precious drawings.

Also some kind of CHRONOLOGICAL order. I'm really not good at dating pages. Sometimes the sketchbook will have a general date... that's helpful. It's similarly hard to decide if drawings should stay bound in the sketchbook, or get ripped out then into a binder. It comes down to how full it is. Sometimes I'll fill up a book will all this great stuff, other times I forget the sketchbook even existed after a few not so great pages. I have lots of old sketch books that are now blank for future use. So much spare paper comes out of this.

I wish I could do art about obsessive organizing. There's a certain satisfaction in collecting and organizing. It's kind of the opposite to produce work than through it away or simply put it away.

After the artchive (get it, art-chive?) I'll go through and find the best of the best work, then make a drawing art zine/book. distribution. That will be a future project, we'll talk about book binding.

That's that...