WHYSEEART dedicated illustrations, and performances in sketch adaptations. By sketching in live audiences, it is a collaboration for audiences to draw from a live performance. An unbroken line from the movement happening on stage to the illustration in our efforts. In the liberal arts, and an artistic sphere where we began creating zines that best understood the artistic movement.
The Zine
A Magazine, Especially a Fanzine defined by the .com Boom, Contemporary Artists talking about The Internet.
Charles Schultz presented his final project for his Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania in the Learning and Professional Studies and Liberal Arts THE INTERNET: THEN, NOW, AND RIGHT NOW, 2019.
Breaking Dawn | Twilight Series
The beginning stages on the artist & craftsmanship
BREAKING DAWN by Stephanie Meyers, was the found novel for the project to draw on prepared surfaces, and painting over the pages. In 2011, it was a project extend the narrative of book arts. Turning my attention to the technical drawing of live performances, with a blank sketchbook in the audience took on new forms. Portfolios filled sketchbooks with this new type of artwork in observation of the performing arts.
The novel, or popular culture is fascinating in print. A movement that leads in the media for cinema. Images in a sequence, or a periodical object, journaling an idea transposed over time. It is an anecdote for looking at process, like The Red Book by C.G. Jung.
ArtWeek Index (2008) Inside look into the Altered Book Projects, during the course of an Associate’s Degree from Delaware College of Art And Design.
In 2019, Dr. Ryan Tsapatsaris, a Doctoral student during my time at University of Pennsylvania, led the classroom discussion on The Internet: Then, Now, and Right Now. My Bachelors Degree for Fine Art(BFA), guiding my program was the urban fabric inwhich I was drawing from, the dance and the theater. Classes at Upenn combined an art journalist perspective on live performances and survey of art history with a unique perspective from The Performing Arts Center as an usher for the Philadelphia Orchestra. My research in art history, contemporary and ancient cultures, and popular culture aligned with my theater reviews in ways that dictated references to the artwork in context.
Exploring The Relationship Of Art And Politics in Shanghai,China
From Beethoven to Broadway w/ Danielle De Niese
Lucerne String Festival and Danielle De Niese at the Shanghai Grand Theater
SHANGHART GALLERY M50
Thrown into the Wind
Thrown Into The Wind by Liu Yi played with theatrical qualities that enhanced the space and expanded possibilities for the animation to go beyond the screen. The combination of theater and film characterize the infinite reality of the stage or the cinema. Liu Yi seems to be very cognizant of ink drawings, the fabric hanging up, fans below our feet, and a double sided projector screen to activate the space. The participants at the exhibition played a part in the narrative, and we actively connected the illustrated world of Liu Yi’s “Chaos Theory” to a theatrical exhibition where we were also the subjects. Chinese art and architecture historically show how Chinese traditions put emotion into nature in order to understand their place in the world. Animation in this installation naturally puts the viewer in motion. So, if we were able to take a look at what is hidden behind the screen, to fully understand the environment, then we have become a participant in the exhibition. Above all, self reflection among the group is a shared experience. The differentiation between an objective and a subjective audience was part of the model for Liu Yi’s installation at Shanghart M50.
In 2018, visual artist, Lui Yi, showed quick moving animations, in a story like-fashion of non-linear symbols, flowing like the fabric being blown in the wind above the staging. The means for the darkness with a veil around the room and a screen in the center felt essentially representational with the polar bear in the environmental exhibit. The real activity was accentuated by drapery and a wind from fans underneath the floor and viewers gravitated to behind the screen. The themes of feminism and nature tie together the circular and repetitive symbols of Liu Yi’s exhibition, Thrown into the Wind.
Large Reproductions from the zines were focused on the projection and material transfer to large scale paintings.
