I have been looking at different types of installation art to get a feel for what sort of things I could create or do similar things with my own installation pieces.
I want to use lighting and image projecting in my work - basically a mixed media installation - and I want to gain indeas I can use to help me form and design my work.
Judy Pfaff
".....all of the above," 2007
Grapes vines, Styrofoam, plaster, plywood; plastics: Polycarbonate and acrylic; steel: rod, wire and cable; lights: fluorescent light, black light, and EL light; dyes and pigment, 15 1/2 x 40 x 44 feet. Installation view: Rice University Art Gallery, Houston.
Photo by Nash Baker, © Judy Pfaff.
"I probably have a problem with ideas. Most of the art world is idea-based: this means this; this means that. But I’m really trying to get to something very emotional and murky- more sensation and emotion than idea. Black-and-white is not an idea, but it’s based on something . . . It’s life-based- what you gather and try to document. You keep in touch with who you are."
- Judy Pfaff
Grapes vines, Styrofoam, plaster, plywood; plastics: Polycarbonate and acrylic; steel: rod, wire and cable; lights: fluorescent light, black light, and EL light; dyes and pigment, 15 1/2 x 40 x 44 feet. Installation view: Rice University Art Gallery, Houston.
Photo by Nash Baker, © Judy Pfaff.
"I probably have a problem with ideas. Most of the art world is idea-based: this means this; this means that. But I’m really trying to get to something very emotional and murky- more sensation and emotion than idea. Black-and-white is not an idea, but it’s based on something . . . It’s life-based- what you gather and try to document. You keep in touch with who you are."
- Judy Pfaff
This artist wants to create a emotional sense with her work as I do with mine - I want the audience to response and be stimulated. The use of lighting creates an atmosphere within an installation - considerations for intensity and type/colour. I want streams of light to almost section off certain areas - going along with my theme of fragementation.
Kara Walker
"Darkytown Rebellion," 2001
Installation view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Projection, cut paper and adhesive on wall, 14 x 37 1/2 feet
Collection of Foundation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Installation view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Projection, cut paper and adhesive on wall, 14 x 37 1/2 feet
Collection of Foundation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
I am interested in fragements of imagery - even relating to a sense of narrative, one the audience can identify with themselves, figure out in their own way as they are drawn in. The use of figures in the above piece immediately creates a sense of narrative - I am interesting in possibly projecting imagery of my own (fragemented sketches/paintings) that depict certain things to myself but also work as a universal image or an expression of something emotional.
The use of coloured light/projections is important in this piece - lots of different colours/shapes/distortions makes the piece seem playful and wonderous. I want my piece to depict theme of being fragmented but including elements of different things - refracted light? Splintered light beams?
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