inspired...

I saw Cecily Brown's work last year, but it was not until this moment that i felt as though i needed to create a large-scale painting like the ones she does. It was also not until this moment that I realized she does a lot more than paint. she changes the properties of oil paint and kind of like a bear in a circus, gets it to stand up and do tricks you never knew it could do. I am naturally more of a watercolorist, but I have been appreciating oil paints more and more lately. I have a painting class, and we have used nothing but oils, so I'm developing my bond with oils as we speak.

what I want to do is have 3 large panels (8'x3') each. I can make wooden frames and ask a painting teacher to help me stretch it. I need to find colossal linen sizes. I also only want to use putty knives and plaster trowels. I feel better about paint when it doesn't have to look like a photograph. Brushes make me feel strangely about paint. they change the whole experience for me.

anyway, here are a couple of my favorite pieces by her.

sound/wall sculpture!!!!

Musical masterpieces are created daily in the Art Museum at the Grace, all through blocks of wood.



This unique experience is possible through the permanent exhibit, Grace Notes. Created by artist and musician Edward Weiss from Michigan, this interactive sculpture is a life-size artwork of colors, shapes and sounds designed for noise, fun and plenty of hands-on play.



It is difficult "not to touch� this sculpture. Its brightly colored blocks and geometric shapes lure visitors to reach out and feel them. Fortunately, this artwork is for touching. The Grace Notes sculpture consists of many brightly-colored wooden touch pads that are electronically wired to emit sound. Grouped by color, each touch pad produces a different tone. The musical touch pads can be played singularly or grouped to create simple compositions.



Grace Notes is the largest of the Edward Weiss Interactive Sound Wall Sculptures created to date, encompassing a 12' by 14' area of The Grace Museum and is the only one of its kind in Texas .

new ideas of mixed media

I have a class called Beat Research which i had for the first time yesterday, I have to say, I was a little unsure of what we would be dealing with exactly, but when we watched "Wild style" I knew that this was going to change my whole outlook on my art.

I had some intense brainstorming time last night to take in everything we had went over. The movie reintroduced me to my world, and we started learning a program called Reason which allows you to create some of the sickest original beats.

I am so excited about how this is going to affect my work because it already has. I had some ideas about a wall sculpture/ painting that speaks about the hip hop culture through sound, beats. maybe not necessarily beats created from reason, but in a more tangible sense of beat, using pin balls in a similar idea where they are supplied by a mechanism which feeds it from the top of the sculpture where it will then fall on the protruding paintings and make sounds or rather beats.

It's just a rough idea, but I am interested in incorporating my work with patterning, paint, sculpture, as well as music and kinetic installation art. I want this piece to be fun. If I cant use the idea yet, I at least want to develop it for future use.