paper art

really amazing paper sculptures by Calvin Nicholls.  Creates a really interesting visual experience.  Really fine craft with paper which is quite admirable.  Check it out.

talk about pushing media

Miina Akkijyrkka (don't ask me how you pronounce it! I wish I knew) creates sculptures from junked cars.  I couldn't find her bio, but her work relates to rural life and cows.  She creates new cows from old cars. 

UGGH I love seeing sculptures that engage space and the viewer

Takes installation to a new level.  Merging the experience of an installation with nature, Ro-Ad architecture firm creates the Moses Bridge.  Subjective experience for the viewer.  Each person sees differently and experiences reflections differently, based on their vision and height, etc.  Reminiscent of Donald Judd's installation of mill aluminum works in Marfa. 

I can get away with this one. They aren't books! theyre skateboards

More recycled art.  Taking materials out of context, redefining and creating new visual language.  Very interesting.  Haroshi is a Japanese artist who takes skateboards and stacks them like a wooden mosaic.  Taking his passion from childhood and transferring it into the art world. 

Outdoor sculpture

Art that engages the public.  It forces one to become part of the work and experience it only through direct sensory contact.  The artist brings about an emotional experience as well, as the sensation of being elevated comes into the work.  Heike Mutter is an amazing designer and sculptor.
http://www.phaenomedia.org/landmarkeaktuell-e.htm

please, check it out!

ok just one more book art

Robert The creates sculptures as well from recycled books.  One of his series involves making guns from books. It is interesting to see the Bible carved into a gun.  I really like his Duchamp though.  Check it out.  Creating contra-rational exhibitions and objects

can't save his pictures so here is a link.  http://www.bookdust.com/

Long Bin-Chen

More recycled book art! so awesome to use materials already produced and redefine them.  Bin-Chen creates sculptures by carving into phone books.  Creating 3 dimensions from objects typically associated with 2...as well as the abstractness of words bringing about form.

Nick Georgiou

Art from recycled newspaper and phonebooks!  Georgiou's work is inspired by the drifting of our modern world away from printed material.  He creates a three dimensional painting: the brush stroke becomes a book or a strip of paper.  Really interesting work.

Jules Buck Jones!

Local Austin artist!  graduated from UT.  Jones' work draws from nature, and more specifically animals.  He has a great book from his residency at the Everglades National Forest.  Here is some of his work.  I had a chance to see this several months ago and greatly enjoyed his work.  Expressive and expansive in media, really interesting visually (esp. in person).

Reuben Margolin's kinetic sculptures

More kinetic sculptures!  Reuben Margolin's wave sculptures are fascinating!  I highly suggest taking the time to watch this video. Incredible craftsman and designer, also incorporating mathematical equations into relating to nature.  AMAZING!!!!

Theo Jansen

 

This has been around for awhile from TED talks (I'm sure many have seen already).  Theo Jansen's work is incredibly interesting.  He creates kinetic sculptures powered by the wind.  Merging engineering and art, he creates optically captivating sculptures that change and move, forcing the viewer to also change and reinterpret constantly.  

Beth Galston's Luminous Garden

Beth Galston creates ethereal environments with her light installations using materials from nature (from acorn mold in this piece).  Based upon a trip to the Galapagos, she creates an entire new environment in a gallery space.  She has a really interesting and diverse body of work, but the light installations are my favorite.

 

Beth Cavener Stichter

Stichter examines the human existence through the gestural forms of animals.  Her forms are dynamic and captivating as she parallels the gestures throughout human lives to those of animals.   I absolutely love her work.
http://www.followtheblackrabbit.com/A_Modest_Proposal.html

check out her work!

Chris Sauter

Tentative 5yr plan

Five Year Plan

October 2011 – August 2012

-finish school

-develop body of work (clay) while pursuing other media as well

-maintain job at St. Ed’s Gallery, plus search for other opportunities

-hopefully get a job at a clay studio

In Summer, take Capstone, graduate.  IN the meantime take welding and woodworking at ACC.

Fall of 2012

Two to three months for travel

Or

Finish Biology requirements if that is what you want to do

(But you know that you don’t function well when you spread yourself too thin.  Focus on art, take the dive, the leap.  When and if you want to study Biology, come back to it with the intention and focus that you know you possess)

Somewhere in here, apply for residencies should you be ready

Gain real world experience, broaden scope, suffer and struggle, and produce work from it

Spring of 2012

Immersion in work;  Hopefully get a job somewhere you don’t hate

Prepare to leave Austin

Fall of 2012

Apply to Graduate School

Ideas :  Alfred State (only if your work is good enough and not a waste of time to apply)

            Athens Georgia

            Indiana

            ???? need to do research

Spring of 2013

-continue to work, save money, develop skills

Focus, apply to shows

Summer 2013

Travel again, try and work into some immersion program perhaps

Fall 2013-Fall 2015

Graduate school

Should you get in, which if you really want to, you will

Artist Statement and bio

The natural world has always fascinated me; animals, plants, landscapes and the wild world full of vibrant and beautiful colors.  Ever since I was little I have been mesmerized by this idea of what is natural; where we came from, where we go, what happens to all of this matter and physical material. My mind always wandered to exploring that connection, our animalistic primal sense.  Much of the human condition can be related to that of the wild animal: our desire for food, water, space for living, and socialization.  In my work, I attempt to emulate the simplicity and humble nature of being, and this sense of connection.  Animals, unlike humans, seem to be content in just being; searching for food, lounging with relatives, this simple and beautiful pursuit of livelihood. It seems that in our culture today, time is of the essence and we have no time to sit, be, and feel curious about the world. My work is an exploration to recreate these landscapes, scenes, true human nature, and this primal sense of life and to find that simplicity and peacefulness of breath, to be curious and fascinated, and to reconnect. 

Biography

Brandon Goodwin is an undergraduate Art student at St. Edward’s University.  He grew up in Texas for most of his life, but also lived in Massachusetts for a few years.  His Catholic upbringing, affinity towards nature and animals, and private education has shaped his life greatly.  While not a religious person, the ideals and exposure to teachings certainly have had an effect in his development.  Music has played a large role in Brandon’s work too, for the feelings that music can evoke are the same reactions he drives for in his pieces.  Brandon originally studied pre-med, but changed to art.  His scientific background also has great significance in his creativity and fixations towards plants and nature. He conducted research on native species of Texas and subsequently worked for the Gallatin National Forest in Montana.  Wilderness and the return to instinctual and primitive is a motif of Brandon’s work.  Brandon currently lives in Austin, TX with his lovely dog and anchor, Calypso.

inspiration

Do you see yourself here (being an artist)?

While I do feel a great pull to continue my studies in Biology, I am happy where I am for now.  I really do enjoy studying art.  When someone asked what do you think about? Do you think about making art and writing stories and such, or the superbowl?  The superbowl, first off, is the farthest thing from my mind and I am constantly thinking of things that I want to make and writing them down.  This doesn't make me special, but is reassuring to step back and think about how much time I am spending thinking about random projects.  Hollis mentioned that some people need to remove themselves from the realm of art in order to produce work, and I think I may be one of those people.  I would like to study another field and apply myself in it so that my work outside flowed, somewhat like an outlet.  I know though that I do want to better myself while I have the wonderful opportunity to study art and to constantly grow in my abilities and skills.  When I finish this next year I will probably enter another field of study, but for now, I am here.

Pondering places to show art:

Ruta Maya, Doyle Coffee Shop, St. Edward's Student Juried Show, Hai Ky, this blog.  muahaha.

Outdoor public sculptures: still pondering

I am C a l y p s o .

And so,

I reveal.