PS1 Artist

Huma Bhabha was born in 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan.  She received her bachelors from Rohde Island School of Design, and then went to Columbia University in 1989 for her masters.  Huma Bhabha have her first solo museum show in New York. 30 of her statues was displayed, plus her collage-drawing spread in MoMA PS1. The artist had a longtime interest in science fiction in the 1970s and general themes such as war, death, cultural displacement and memory. Bhabha sculpts expressive, cluster, rough texture, unusual materials like Styrofoam, air-dried clay, wires, cork, and construction scraps. Bhabhas would melt and put the materials together and create figures that is a mixture of construction to a feeling of environment sense. The statues would have the sculpture style would take place during the ancient times. that is similar to the ancient time, but is made by dispose material which makes the artist a contemporary artist.  She creates  mxiture of science fiction and traditional cutlure all together. This statue is called “Ghost of Humankindness” (2011). It’s a sinister,automaton-like figure that stands over 8 feet and  1100 lbs. The body is stacked together in a totemic style made from Styrofoam.The face is deformed as it was melted and painted in bronze. Then you have the collage-drawings. Each picture has a form of a skeletal head, some of which are covered over a lot of resemblance of miserable scenery. A couple of the drawings would be in large scales and the use of hint of bright colors that are less straightforward than the statues. Huma Bhabha’s artwork is the mixture of future and the past. By sculpting the historical figurative, using old and modern objects that are thrown away, and expressing the future in a dreaded way.

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 "Exhibit of the Week: Huma Bhabha: Unnatural Histories." Exhibit of the Week: Huma Bhabha: Unnatural Histories. 19 Dec. 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

 "Unnatural Histories." ArtAsiaPacific: Huma Bhabha. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.

           

                                              

Outline

Aysia Brown
12/8/2015
Outline for my Artistt.


Kara Walker was born November 26, 1969 Stockton California. Her father was her influence to become an artist when she was a little girl. Walker is an contemporary artist who looks into race, gender, sexuality, and violence. Walker is the best known artist for exploring the raw information of the difference of the particular work  The style Walker use is collage, drawing, painting, performance, film, video, shadow puppetry, light projections, and  animations . Walker artwork is both beautiful and very disturbing. The silhouettes would tell different stories. Kara Walker artwork takes place the civil war and slavery era, which is the 18th century.  Kara Walker explores the raw information  and expose terrifying and cringing images of the dark side of slavery history. .What's significant about the artist's work is how it can attract and effect the viewers at the same time and displaying a specific time period in a exaggerated distorted way comically.

The first picture by Kara Walker is named "Gone, An Historical Romance of a civil war as it occurred between the dusky thighs of one Negress and her heart. (1994) The title "Gone came from a novel and movie "Gone With The Wind" The silhouettes are lined and position  to tell a story. The second picture is named "Darkytown Rebellion"(2000) Walker would use light projectors and multi-colors for the background for the silhouettes. The viewer's shadow would be able to be part of the work by their own shadows showing on the wall by the light projector. "Darkytown Rebellion" shows a historical illustration of African Americans view in in American Culture. The third is a shadow puppetry a young Negress girl and the titled is called "Testimony" (2000) The fourth is a drawing named "The Daliy Constitution 1878" (2011) It's a disturbing drawing picture that shows the relationships between two different races in the south. The picture would be a very very dark reminder that is publicly expose to everyone that sees the picture. The last artwork is named "Excavated from the black heart of a negress" (2002) This is also a cut-out and it shows two women. This picture is like a sing of what goes on the south. The artwork is showing a baby being ripped out of one of the woman's stomach by other female. This expresses the reality that during the slavery era, babies would be taken from their mothers and be sold to another plantation. 

From MOMA they said about Kara Walker has "transformed the craft , into a new type of epic history painting" and I agree because it express so much of the history of slavery in the 18th century and how Walker is able to make such artwork that is so revealing. 

   

Citations for the oral presentation

Citations

December 2, 2015

"Kara Walker | American Artist." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica. Web. 2 Dec. 2015.

 "Kara Walker | ART21." Kara Walker | ART21. Web. 2 Dec. 2015.

 "Khan Academy." Khan Academy. Web. 2 Dec. 2015.