Art 21 Powerpoint Presenta0on 

Each of you will present this project to the class as a Powerpoint presenta5on during the last few weeks of school.  At the 5me of your presenta5on, you will also provide me with a digital version of your powerpoint presenta5on either by CD, DVD, or flash drive (I can copy the file to my desktop and return the flash drive to you). Please note: Do not email me the powerpoint as these files are large and will close up my email for school. 

Select 3 ar0sts using the contemporary arts database, “Art 21 a to z”. This is online at: hCp://www.pbs.org/art21/ 

Read informa0on about the ar0sts chosen, view their works and interviews. Create one photograph inspired by each ar0st’s work (three original photos total plus three photos of the ar0sts work from the art 21 site).  

You may take a picture that does not look like the work of the ar0st, but is somehow inspired by the ar0st’s concepts or personal style. Although you are not graded on your camera’s quality, try to make successful photos. In other words, plan, take your 0me, and concentrate. Remember, you are making a work of art! 

Present your work in a power point slide show. Include one image from the art 21 site, then the image you have created. Label each image with the 0tle, ar0st’s name, date, materials, and dimensions. Then, in less than one paragraph, explain the idea or quality in the ar0st’s work that inspired your photograph. You will present these photographs to the class. 

Examples of Student Work 

Janine Antoni “Moor”, Detail, 2001

Mixed Fabrics

Janine Antoni created a collection of ropes she named “Moor” using materials she collected from family and friends. She twisted the materials together and formed the ropes so that they are not too tight or too loose. Her work evokes the deep, inner thoughts of her life and the life of others. This image from her installation at Free Port, Sweden was made of materials she collected from her friends, some of whom gave her materials from their friends, who have passed away. Her hope is that using these materials in making this rope can give those individuals another life and that the viewers can uncover their stories that are in the materials.

After Janine Antoni, Carlita King-Judon Digital Photo, 2010 Cotton Bandannas

I really admire the way Janine Antoni uses different types of material in her ropes, from people she may or may not know to create thoughts about them. Like Janine who uses her ropes as a lifeline, I made this rope using three bandannas plated together as a tribute to my mother. Growing up, I could remember my mother tying her head every night with a scarf before going to bed. As I look at this rope, I can picture her even though she is so far away, still tying her head every night as she has been doing throughout the years.

Jenny Holzer “Truisms”, 1977-79

Spectacolor Electronic Sign

Jenny Holzer main focus of her work is the use of words and ideas in public places. She uses visible media like light projections, benches, T shirts, electronic LED signs and even condoms to get her message across. The texts she displays in her work seems to provoke a response in the viewer. She often describes declassified government memoranda detailing prisoners abuse, the war in Iraq, death and diseases. In this text “Truisms” which was displayed in Time Square, New York in 1986, Holzer was sending a message about values. She expressed that people nowadays do not like to hear about values but her hope is that they will recoil and there will be less fear and cruelty.

After Jenny Holzer, Carlita King-Judon Digital Photo,2010

Chipboard Letters, Poster board, Picture Frame I really admired the way Jenny Holzer uses words to get her message across. My mother practically raised my siblings and I using texts as a message for every situation we found ourselves in while growing up. That was her way of keeping us on the right path. As I grew older, I made up some of my very own. But unlike Jenny Holzer who uses her texts as criticism I use mines in the form of encouragement. To create this image, I used chipboard letters, arranged them on a poster board then inserted it into a picture frame. I use this text whenever life gets me down and I feel that I am at the end of my rope to remind me that I came this far and I will go a little further.

 Kara Walker in her works likes "Making things in shadow form suggests to the viewer, ‘You can look at me this way, but perhaps you’ll see something else.’”  Because her work 

“Burn” is a silhoueCe, one viewer could 

perceive it one way, while another viewer might view it another. One person might view it in such a way that 

suggests that the girl is standing in the flames burning.  Another 

perspec0ve would be that the girl is merely standing with the 

flames in front of her. 

"Burn" Kara Walker 1998 Cut paper and adhesive on wall, 92 1/8 x 48 inches  

Red Ashley Gardner 

2010 cut paper and adhesive. 

In my work I wanted to reflect the idea of possible mispercep0on. I wanted people to have their own percep0on of this piece. Is the subject walking and the spots behind her footprints? Or is it possible that the subject is running with the spots being pools of blood? Are the birds merely addi0ons or are they an influence? 

 Sally Mann, in her photography works like to takes her photos with damaged cameras. She spends much of her 0me looking for cameras that have “lenses with just the 

right amount of decrepitude. The glue has to be peeling off of the 

lens elements, it’s great if its mildewed and out of whack...“ ‐Sally Mann.  In this work you can tell 

the damaged areas of the lens. The damaged areas add a classical  touch to 

the photograph.  

"Un5tled (#18)“ Sally Mann 

1996 From the "Mother Land" series 

Tea‐toned gela0n silver print, 38 x 48 inches 

Onward. Ashley Gardner 

2010 digital photograph 1200 x 1600 pixels 

 When looking at Sally Mann’s un0tled piece, I was inspired to create something with a classical feeling. I liked her idea of using broken lenses but I decided to not replicate that. I wanted to focus more on the meaning that the picture held for me. I looked at her photo for it subject maCer of the gate leading to somewhere beyond.  

 This stairwell gave me the same sensa0on as the gate her picture displays and I wanted to capture that. In addi0on I altered the picture with digital imaging sogware to give it the classical look that her work reflects. 

 In many of the works Iñigo Manglano‐Ovalle creates, he uses meathods to create metaphors for understanding social issues such as immigra0on, gun violence, and human cloning. In his work 

“Oppenheimer” he stated: “What I’m doing in the film is thinking about Oppenheimer in Purgatory”   By having the man standing on water, the ar0st is showing that this man is no living human. In 

addi0on the man looks at his reflec0on as a kind of metaphor to be looking onto ones true self or past. Oppenheimer is known as the father of the atomic bomb; and this artwork I believe portrays the self 

reflec0ons of a man with a heavy weight on his shoulders. 

Un0tled Test Shot Ashley Gardner 

2010 Digital picture 

5576 x 1932 pixels 

 When looking at the Oppenheimer piece, I was inspired to create a work that reflected the idea of an inhuman like presence in my work. I wanted to give the feel of some sort of higher power whose feet need not touch the ground in order to walk. I used a trick of mirror to create the illusion that the subject maCer is walking above the grass and looking off into the distance, to something greater. Unlike Iñigo Manglano‐Ovalle piece I wanted the subject to look at the future not at ones own self or past. 

Suh with his work of art likes to question the identity of individuals in today’s society making you take inconsideration your surroundings and exploring the strength in numbers. He describes it as a “statue at the plaza of a hero who helped or protected our country, there are hundreds of thousands of individuals who helped him and worked with him, and there’s no recognition for them” he wants to make you feel as you are a part of something bigger.

I naturally enjoyed Suh’s point of view ,and I am easily inspired by him. While Suh explores the strength in numbers for his viewer I experience it every day with my Marines. I used these Marines because they have been beside me for the last 3 years accomplishing task everywhere we go showing the true strength in numbers.

Jenny Holzer 

• Jenny Holzer creates art work that ques0ons consumer impulses, describes torture, or expresses death and disease. Her language provokes a response in the viewer and allows for her art work to be very interac0ve. I think this piece is about the ar0st being alive and not leqng the evils that are killing so many others kill her too. Since it’s wriCen on skin, it also makes me wonder if she is referring to an illness such as breast cancer since that is effec0ng so many women worldwide. 

• "It has always been hard for me to write, as I think it is for anyone who wants to write well. I was pleased to leave it, and I have no idea whether I’ll write again. One reason why I stopped was because I tend to write about ghastly subjects." ‐‐ Jenny Holzer  

Project for "Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin", Edi0on No. 46 1993‐95, Collabora0on with Tibor Kalman Photographs of handwri0ng in ink on skin 

MY  Imita0on Of: Jenny Holzer’s Work 

• Jenny Holzer is very concerned about the ques0ons her work evokes in the person viewing it. Ager learning about the Bystander Effect and how it’s effec0ng our society I wanted nothing more than to imitate her work. According to the Bystander Effect, if you were to become a vic0m of a crime or fallen ill unexpectedly in a crowd of people, the likelihood of someone helping you is slim to none and actually decreases as the number of people surrounding you increases. Through this piece my goal was to evoke the ques0on of how far society’s morals have come and if we are actually back tracking or were never as “humane” as we claim to be. So in paint, I wrote the ques0on “Will I die in a room of people” on the face of a passerby. 

Ager Jenny Holzer, Emily Meekins 2010, digital photo 

“I wanted a piece…that intrudes in the space, that is unwelcome, like an immigrant, that just intrudes without permission.”

Salcedo’s artwork includes re-creating a new way for people to view the world through the perspective of the victim, by creating pieces that seem to not belong, or to be out of the ordinary. In her work, she references segregation and racial hatred and attempts to show that what one person may see as unwelcome or intruding, another may find as beautiful.

Doris Salcedo

Shibboleth, 2007

Rock wall casting and concrete

536ft x 11”-5cm

After Doris Salcedo: Intrusion of Red, 2010

Adobe Illustrator

5” x 4”

I wanted to create an image where something simple, that did not seem to belong, was added to a whole different scene, one with a lot going on, one where the background shapes, color, and sizes can all relate to each other, making it impossible for any other shape or color to fit in unnoticed.

I really like the way Doris Salcedo expresses her views on racism and creates artwork that force the viewer to feel like the outsider for just that moment in time. Or how her work itself is created to show what intrusion looks like, how it is interpreted, and how it can be viewed differently than in a way that causes hatred and violence.

Lexi Pearson

“S5ll Water” By: Roni Horn 

This image taken by Roni Horn in 1999 is an offset lithograph photograph and text combined on coated paper. It’s 30.5 By 41.5 inches. Featured in the MaChew Marks Gallery in New York. Roni describes her inspira0on behind the piece by saying "Aside from the physical, sensual reality of water, the thing that I love is it’s paradoxical nature. Water is something one’s aCracted to largely for the light...but the Thames has this incredible moodiness, and that’s what the camera picks up.” Roni’s water images include close up shots  with a deeper more in0mate feel. 

“Tin Water” By: Andrew Opiela 

In “Tin Water” I used a 10 inch by 10 inch piece of aluminum foil, put it in my sink, and filled it with water. Roni Horn says “water is something one’s aCracted to largely for the light” so I used the aluminum foil as a reflec0ve device to make the photo more appealing. I find Roni Horn’s style very interes0ng because she takes a close up shot of something as simple as water, and gets the angles and ligh0ng on point to create a very aCrac0ve piece.