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Ray Troll Troll is an artist from Kansas who in his formative adult years spent his time on a fishing boat in Alaska. While there, Troll found that the fish he was catching were haunting his dreams and pervading his artwork. Troll created drawings and paintings which described his uncanny fixation on marine life and he eventually started painting art for the dock at which he was employed and selling his works on t-shirts at various events. His career took off when he received critical acclaim for these t-shirts for their depth, complexity, and humorous subject matter. Troll's art is incredibly busy and this I think is its strong suit. The eye may wander for hours looking at his pieces and everywhere it goes it is treated with amazing colors and forms which mimic life beautifully but also retain evidence an untainted relationship with troll's vivid imagination. Troll tours the world, drawing and painting for the entertainment of the masses as well as for academic institutions b

Both Karsten Creightney and Christian Gallegos are artists in town at the moment displaying their pieces in a larger exhibition at the moment. Both work in a variety of mediums but both do drawing, Christian Gallegos works more in drawing than Karsten but they are both very talented. One way the two differ heavily is that Christian's focus on more drawing give him a very diverse amalgamation of themes and styles, he has many realistic portraitures just as he has many pop culture drawings. Karsten focuses much more in the fine art aspect and uses mostly a combination of lithography and other printmaking techniques mixed with traditional drawing mediums and watercolor. I feel as though my portfolio has very little continuity and thus is kind of a jumbled heap of work much like Christian's, where as I appreciate Karsten's consistent aesthetic style and it is definitely something I want to learn from. Karsten mostly has focus in painting, and her pieces are truly great, but I f

November 11, 2018   LEONARD BASKIN The thought of the sky and the blue and the surrounding puffy clouds has always been a place where we gaze with certainty of undisturbed beauty, for what else soars there than majestic beings of whom we rely upon as inspiration as we ascend ourselves towards heaven. Baskin’s birds, raptors, paint a different picture altogether of the sky. Eagles, crows, owls and ravens, a predominant feature of his works, are distorted in such a way that they appear to have come out of a nightmare. His black birds are reminiscent of the horrifying moth man. Instead of looking at the sky with reverie, we are urged to turn away and run away from it, as we may become its next prey. But when do we ever listen. The birds themselves are never there, Baskin’s depiction is entirely metaphorical. The birds are subjects of representation of our own ugliness and evil and capabilities for perversion and destruction that relate our inability to escape our confines for e

Sebastian Kruger is a German caricature and surreal artist who specializes in drawing and painting celebrities. I first learned of him through seeing his Keith Richards caricature on a Russian postcard my uncle found somewhere. He has created over 800 caricatures of various celebrites and musicians throughout his career. I was instantly drawn to his style especially in how he can show remarkable realism as well as complete distortions of his subjects. My personal favorite is the Keith Richards, because at first it can actually be mistaken for a photograph, until you realize that no one's jaw can bend like that. I find his work very humorous but also capturing a sense of truth to the characters he chooses. I love how he snapshots the actions of his pieces and faithfully depicts them in his own strange lens.  Rob Gonsalves was a Canadian artist who created optical illusions in his pieces. I chose him because his work is very unique and carries a very charming

Frank Lloyd Wright, a well renowned architect from Wisconsin who designed various buildings, most of which that became actual buildings in the future. He was well respected for his skill in designing structures and was known for pioneering the movement called "organic architecture". I'm focusing primarily on his architectural sketches though which are pretty fascinating. They're all pretty professional while still having the interesting aspect of being a drawing at the end of it all. Rosenwald School Greater Baghdad Constant Nieuwenhuys is an artist based out of the Netherlands who had a similar outlook to Frank's, although Constant liked to indulge himself in creating fictional cities. With one of his most notable being "New Babylon" which consisted of many different sketches consisted of city designs. Here are some examples of his work which were drawing on paper using ink. Bird’s Eye Group of Sectors I Bird’s Eye Group of Sectors

Maureen Doherty Erin Galvez Drawing III November 9, 2018 The Four Freedoms Handwriting as a form of drawing can be seen in an installation, curated by Mary Statzer, called “The Four Freedoms,” held by the UNM Art Museum.             A drawing is simply a line expressing meaning. Often times in an art setting that meaning becomes set into a certain, specific idea of a line. However, this has been challenged throughout art history. The idea of a line has been challenged with such simple things as charcoal drawings with no hard edges. Alexander Calder “drew” with wire, pushing the drawing into a more sculptural sense. In this piece there are elements of traditional drawings, however, I hazard to present the idea that writing can be a form of drawing in itself. Often times writing is used in art, particularly calligraphy. Illuminated manuscripts are some of the greatest pieces of art. As a form, writing is one of the most unique signatures that p

Jerry Love Jerry Love is an artist who enjoys drawing and painting scenes from the past. In the 60's and 70's he was doing sculpture today he likes paint and draw. He uses watercolor, graphite, and acrylics in his works. The two works I choose to show are Cloud's Mares and Western Justice. I really enjoyed his work because of his subject matter. The old wets pops up a lot in his work. I think Cloud's Mares is a really beautiful piece. I feel he really captures the feeling of freedom with these horses. Western Justice has four men standing in front of what looks like a solon. The way they look gives the feeling of the wild west. I really enjoy looking at picture from this time period so I really enjoyed his work. His work feels very wild west. Mark Horst Horst mostly paints human figure. He works in painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation. Mark Horst says he paints to see and understand the world. I really enjoyed his drawing and painting. The subjec

November 9th 2018 Chloe Piene and Peggy Preheim The first artist I found who really intrigued me for part 3 of this unit is Chloe Piene. Born in Stamford Connecticut in 1972, Piene earned her Bachelor of Art in Art History from Columbia University in New York in 1993, and then went on to receive her Masters of Fines Arts from Goldsmiths College in London in 1997. Piene is now based in New York City mainly working with drawing, though she also works with sculpture and video-making. There wasn’t a lot about her or her process on the internet, but I chose to look at her art because it’s both striking and very different to the art that I make or that I am typically drawn to. The three examples I’ve included in order are titled Headless 10 (2004), Demure (2004), and Girl Drowning (Flyer with Strands) (2001), all of which are done in Charcoal on paper or vellum . For Headless and Demure , the use of gesture drawing and what looks to be continuous gives the works the sense of

The artists that I chose for this section, Raymond Pettibon and Robert Crumb, have very similar drawing styles. Their main medium is ink and have a very graphic style of drawing. Raymond Pettibon’s work tends to have an element of social commentary to it, with many of his pieces including text along with a drawing. His images are very strong compositionally. He manages to fill up a space and make an image complete without having to actually completely fill up the page. In the first image that I included, from 1987, the drawing is both simple and complex. The amount of detail in the outline of the woman and the man in the doorway gives you a clear picture of what you are looking at even though the drawing itself is very simple.  Though Robert Crumb has a similar style the feeling of his pieces is very different from what drew me to Raymond Pettibon’s work. Robert Crumb is known as being a comic book artist and his pieces have that very specific

Sheri Crider is a local artist that currently has her exhibition in the Raymond Jonson Gallery in the UNM Art Museum. Flight  is an exhibition that explores the themes of migration, identity or personal journeys and incarceration of minorities. In one of the smaller rooms of the gallery, a projection on the wall shows an illustration of the world and a time-lapse video of lines dancing about the map. The title of this digital drawing is, "A Brief Visual History of the Big Mess We Call History and Your Tiny Swipe." This interactive piece allows the audience to either randomly draw lines all over the map for fun or they can choose to purposefully illustrate a migration pattern. I chose to add a few lines into Europe to show my ancestry there in Spain, Germany and some of northern Europe. The use of line in a drawing can depict movement, a transference of energy, and this is shown by the interactive aspect of the piece as people swipe on the tablet. The chaotic entanglemen

Anna Lea Hucht The artist that I chose was Anna Lea Hucht. Anna Lea Hucht is a contemporary artist whose work primarily consists of drawings and watercolors. She was born in Bonn, Germany in 1980 and currently lives in Berlin. She went to the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, class of Gross in Germany and graduated in 2005. From 2005 to 2006, she was a master student at Erwin Gross. The piece I chose to analyze is, "Untitled," 2007, watercolor on paper, 55 x 57 cm. The drawing depicts a woman laying down on her bed in a messy bedroom with items scattered all over the floor. This drawing drew me in because of the composition of the piece, the value, and depth created. The value of the piece seems to be within the mid-tone range with accents of bright white for the light pouring through the window and the dark blacks for the shadows of certain objects in the frame. Through the use of value, depth is created, making the piece feel quite realistic. I enjoy her artwork because a

For this assignment, I chose to visit the UNM Art Museum and the exhibit Flight by Sheri Crider. The exhibit had this drawing that intrigued me. This piece is called Cibola Detention Center, Five Years, $150mil, Silence Still Equals Death.” It is made of gouache and enamel. What drew me to the piece was the bright orange featured. It takes up the majority of the page and is a very eye catching color. She also has many different shades of orange in the landscape. The “sand” is orange but it is not a solid color and has dimension within it. This also is seen within the sky. The sky is blue but it is all different tones of blue. I like that the landscape is very tonal yet the object in the piece are very solid and flat. The cactus in particular is very solid and has only one tone. The same goes for the building structure. The background and landscape also show off the brush strokes and texture. The tower and cactus do not do that and are smooth. I really like this difference in textures

Adonna Khare Adonna Khare is an American artist from Burbank California. She mainly focuses on charcoal drawings that range from small scale to large scale. Her work has been collected by prestigious art collectors around the world and has been featured in magazine's such as L.A. times, the Huffington Post, My Modern Metropolis and more. She received her masters in Fine Art from California State University. She specializes in melding realism and fantasy together. She says she "draws like one might sculpt." She starts her characters off by drawing an almost skeletal like structure and shapes and molds them from there. A lot of her work deals with "the absurdities in life." She says "juxtaposing predator and prey conveys a change of context, it brings the viewer in to really think about their understanding of not only the animals but of those that are around them." She also says "the elephant pieces have to do with the weight we