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“Alternative Mark-Making, Altered Images, Altered Reality”

This unit is meant to bend, warp and expand your concepts and your preconceived notions about how to make marks and create art.  If you are doing things you've done before then you are doing this unit WRONG!! You are meant to feel uncomfortable! Explore something you've never tried before and see where it can take you.  

What you will create depends upon the portfolio you've chosen.  
  • Drawing- You will be exploring alternative mark-making techniques. 
  • 2D Design- You will be exploring the idea of alternative processes and altered objects
  • Sculpture- You will explore altered art and installation/performance
In each of the portfolios there could potentially be cross pollination of ideas and techniques, in fact there should be!!!

You will have a longer time for this unit so that you can truly explore and experiment.  You may want to do a series so that you can leave room for the failures that are bound to come through trial and error.  

So what does this unit mean? 
Alternative Mark-Making:  using tools that are unusual, that we normally don't think of as drawing or painting media.

Make Your Own Tool

What if you couldn't buy a tool to paint or draw with?  How would you design a mark-making tool? What if physical limitations kept you from making marks the way you are used to doing it? 

http://drawing3flagler.blogspot.com/2014_08_01_archive.html

Fabienne Verdier

​Fabienne Verdier is a French contemporary artist who used her own designed mark-making tools to produce large scale, almost calligraphic painting installations.  She is interested in nature, process and more.  Check out her work here. 

http://fabienneverdier.com

Tony Orrico Penwald

Tony Orrico developed his own physical symmetry practice as point of entry into his creative work. 
In his termed “state of readiness” he is interested in the application of a present body to a surface, object, or course. He avows that artists must prepare themselves as they would their mediums.  

With the notion that creativity is an emergent force, Orrico is fascinated with how physical impulses manifest into visible forms. He finds inherent beauty in what is lost through representation(s) and how ideas in motion may replicate, mutate, or disintegrate.

His artifacts and performances often enter infinities of reflective and rotational symmetry. Centralizing on themes of cyclic motion and the generation and regeneration of material, the work draws on the tension between what is fleeting and what is captured.  from:  http://www.tonyorrico.com/PENWALD_DRAWINGS.html

Jelly Bean Animation

The artists involved in this project used Jelly Belly jelly beans to create a unique stop motion animation.  The second video shows how they organized their supplies and shot the video.  

Terese Agnew

Terese Agnew’s work has evolved from sculpture to densely embroidered quilts by a process she calls drawing with thread. Her themes are environmental and social. Her most notable quilt to date is the Portrait of a Textile Worker, constructed of thousands of clothing labels stitched together, contributed by hundreds of sympathetic individuals, labor organizations, Junior League members, students, retired and unemployed workers, friends, family and acquaintances worldwide. The resulting image is about the exploitation and abuse of laborers, the by-products of globalization and the insatiable American appetite for goods.
Agnew’s quilts are included in permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, and The Milwaukee Art Museum.from:  

www.tardart.com
http://www.craftinamerica.org/shorts/terese-agnew-segment/

Phil Hansen

From extreme pointillism to an almost performance based practice, Minnesota artist, Phil Hansen has made his mark in a variety of ways as an artist.  "As an art student, Phil Hansen’s intense style of pointillism led to a tremor in his hand and a diagnosis of nerve damage. Devastated, he dropped out and lost his way ... until a neurologist suggested he “embrace the shake.” from https://www.ted.com/speakers/phil_hansen​
http://www.philinthecircle.com

Cai Guo-Qiang 

Cai Guo Qiang uses gunpowder to make marks.  Imagine if you couldn't control the results of your mark-making? 
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Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. His father, Cai Ruiqin, was a calligrapher and traditional painter who worked in a bookstore. As a result, Cai Guo-Qiang was exposed early on to Western literature as well as traditional Chinese art forms.[2]
As an adolescent and teenager, Cai witnessed the social effects of the Cultural Revolution first-hand, personally participating in demonstrations and parades himself. He grew up in a setting where explosions were common, whether they were the result of cannon blasts or celebratory fireworks. He also “saw gunpowder used in both good ways and bad, in destruction and reconstruction”.[2] It seems that Cai has channeled his experiences and memories through his numerous gunpowder drawings and explosion events.from:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cai_Guo-Qiang
http://www.caiguoqiang.com

Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz explores social justice with poverty stricken populations in Brazil and utilizes garbage to create incredibly transformative portraiture that is very unique in concept and mark making technique.  
http://wastelandmovie.com

Amparo Sard-Pinhole Marks

http://www.artbusiness.com/1open/052208.html
Amparo Sard is from Mallorca, Spain.  She was born in 1973 and is currently a professor of art at University in Barcelona.  Her work is known for it's unique system of mark-making.  Her work is described as follows:
...is an intimate reflection on human nature, on doubt and anguish in human beings. It is, to a large extent, an analysis on human existence, a plastic meditation about contemporary identity, always more uncertain and to redefine, between indecision and mistake. Sard employs the most poetic and effective technique to express human confinement: void on white. Through thousands of painstaking hand perforations, Sard enhances the conflicts and anguish caused by indecision.
http://www.galerieisa.com/artist/amapro-sard/#current_press_release

Further Explorations

Mrs. Bjork's Pinboard on Surreal Photography
​Mrs. Bjork's Pinboard on Play Doh photography
Mrs. Bjork's Pinboard on Altered Art with Tins
Mrs. Bjork's Pinboard on Alternative Photography Processes
​Mrs. Bjork's Pinboard on Embroidery and Stitching.
Mrs. Bjork's Pinboard on Altered Art 
Mrs. Bjork's Pinboard on Multimedia
​Altered Reality Photography
Altered Reality/Altered Images pinboard
Mrs. Bjork's Surrealism Pinboard
Look at the Art in the 21st Century Series and website.  This site contains videos, galleries and more with a variety of contemporary artists who are pushing the limits of what mark-making and alternative art is.  


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