Congratulations Andrea!

Congratulations Andrea for the Creative Workforce Fellowship Award! I'm so happy for you. It must be your lucky year.

Comments on article on Eva Hesse's work

Among Eva Hesse's work, the sculptures(one image- page 20) with ropes and strings have been my favorite. They are 3D drawings to me. She is one of the artists who have freed line from representation, releasing it into space effectively. Since I use threads and strings in my own work often, I was very inspired by reading the observations on ropes and strings in Eva Hesse's work from page 18-20. The author wrote: ----ropes functioning as a denial of separation as an extension of communication, and as a symbol of union. String can be looked upon as an extension of all other techniques of communication. String joins just as it also helps in the wrapping up of objects and in the holding of unintegrated material.....
Here is another artist, Gego. She made drawings without paper.
To see Gego's drawings, click, this
To read article, click
this.

Comment on Art Making Process

I agree. For me, the art making process brings together an internal meditative practice with the external research of content. As a result, the work sometimes hovers in an in-between space. Here's an interesting article that approaches Eva Hesse's work through the lens of psychoanalysis. http://psybc.com/pdfs/library/SearchofHerOwnLanguage1.pdf

Comments on Emma Kunz's work

Art making process is therapeutic to me. Especially when I cut & paste using my old bookpages, prints and drawings (for collage), psychologically, I feel good!
Yuko

Philippe Decrauzat

Decrauzat's installations push the idea of drawing in space. I'm mesmerized and inspired.  Recently, I discovered the works of another Swiss artist, Emma Kunz.  Kunz considered her drawings more as vehicles for healing than as works of fine art. Follow these links: http://www.secession.at/kunst/08_decrauzat_e.html and  http://www.emma-kunz-zentrum.ch/e/index_e.html?#galerie/

Chris Silas Neal

I love his work, check it out! http://www.redsilas.com/

 

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