1-Who are the 5+ artists you chose?
1. Arlene Shechet
2. Heidi Lau
3. Allan McCollum
4. Liz Larner
5. Kiki Smith
2-What were 5+ themes the artists addressed about making work?
1. Shechet addressed wanting her sculptures to be seen as ideas. Rather than being able to directly describe her work, she wants her viewers to see her creations in an open-ended way. She makes her pieces interpretive and up to the imagination of the viewer.
2. Lau incorporates her Chinese culture into her sculptures. Her pieces reflect the architecture of where she grew up in Macao, and the memories of these establishments from her upbringing.
3. McCollum emphasized uniqueness within what most would consider to be mundane.
4. Impermanence is a big theme in the understanding of the forms of Larner's work; she believes in fluidity of perception, and the theme of permanence is neglected.
5. Smith embraces morbidity heavily throughout her work. Life and death play two very prominent factors in her work.
3-What were 5+ challenges the artists faced in making their work?
1. Shechet seemed to find challenge in perfecting her pieces in combination with the chemical reactions that come with ceramic art. Some of her pieces undergo tens of firings before she is happy with the result she is given.
2. Lau often feels that the clay controls her; she does not control the clay. Submitting to what the clay wants her to do can end up rerouting her plans, or thinking of her projects in a new way.
3. McCollum faced the challenge of making each of his individual assemblies from plaster casts different and unique; duplicates in his work became inevitable.
4. Larner sets out to try and not use the same methods when making her sculptures, but to use the same ideas. Panning this out poses frustration.
5. Smith emphasizes trusting her intuition when it comes to making art. Sometimes she does not like where her art is headed, and it is because she finds herself not trusting herself enough.
4-What were 5+ inspirations you drew from the artists?
1. As a ceramic artist myself, Shechet inspires me to see the beauty within the ''dirty'' and ''ugly'' that clay presents to us by being clay.
2. Lau inspires me to challenge the interplay between nostalgia & past generations of art with a contemporary twist.
3. I admire McCollum's commitment to his bit; he does not let challenge or judgement from others in the art world disrupt his creative process.
4. Larner inspires me to challenge space and form; how objects move around a space, how people move around an object.
5. Smith inspires me to accept the dark and emotional side of things that many artists shy away from.
5-What were 5+ things you would like to incorporate into your own work after watching these videos?
1. Interactivity
2. Sentimentality
3. Scale
4. Chaos
5. History
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