Welcome to ART 160-163!

Hope you enjoyed our first class. We will be discussing different contemporary artists through out the semester and this blog will be a good resource for you to gain more information about them and their work.
Always let me know if there is something that you would like to share with the class and I will be happy to add it. Thanks and looking forward to the semester.

Portraiture exhibit at LACMA

Alex Katz, Eric Fischl, and the Beach SceneArt of the Americas Building, Level 3
July 24, 2010–November 28, 2010


The figure and portraiture are central to the art of American realist painters Alex Katz (b. 1927) and Eric Fischl (b. 1948). Both artists are renowned for often monumental canvases that depict family members and well-to-do friends, including prominent artists, intellectuals, and actors in fashionable locations. Many of their modern-day conversation pieces, including Katz's Round Hill and Fischl's St. Barts Ralph's 70thare beach scenes. In celebration of summer and the inaugural presentation of these paintings at LACMA, this installation includes a selection of relevant works from the permanent collection and highlights the endlessly suggestive setting of the beach.

Curated by Austen Bailly, Associate Curator, American Art.

Saint Barts Ralph's 70th, 2009, Oil on Linen, 96 x108 inches, © Eric Fischl 2009

OMCA's: California Biennial

Oct 24, 2010 - Mar 13, 2011 The Orange County Museum of Art is pleased to present the 2010 California Biennial. The Biennial exhibitions are highly anticipated by art enthusiasts and the art world. In addition to approximately 150 works of art and installations on display, the museum will also serve as the site for approximately 30 programs and performances that will appeal to diverse interests and continue OCMA’s history of presenting new developments in contemporary art.

Darren Hostetter at Sam Lee in Chinatown

Melissa Manfull: Artist Talk on Nov. 2

Melissa Manfull will be coming to give an artist talk next Tuesday, Nov. 2nd from 6:30 - 7:30 pm in our classroom. Take a look at her website and the statement at the Taylor de Cordoba Gallery, and finally this interview with her to prepared for her visit. Please formulate three questions from this material.

Something Fun: Speed Drawing on the Subway in NY City

Take a look at these sketches done on the iPhone y Eric Molinsky on the subway in New York. I thought they were very appropriate since we just did speed paintings and you know how hard it can be to capture and synthesize a subject. Here is his blog and a video piece they did on him in the New York Times.