Blog #7: Paintings by Tim Collom

Tim Collom Gallery: Paintings by Tim Collom

915 20^th Street, Sacramento, CA. 95811

11am—6pm, March 14^th—June 7^th—2015

            The discipline that the exhibition represents is oil painting on canvas with the exception of one Giclee. The theme of the exhibited works is landscape. The landscapes are abstract with the exception of two realistic looking landscapes of beaches and water. The other landscapes, which are abstract in style are of mountains and skier’s and of a colorful hillside with fields and trees, there is also a very colorful painting of boats in the water. The colors that Tim Collom uses are very bright and saturated which creates a psychedelic like landscape. He doesn’t use very much blending in his abstract landscapes, instead he layers his colors over each other in patches. Collom’s paintings have a great sense of spacial depth, he uses atmospheric perspective to create the illusion of a landscape that expands into the far off distance. He also uses lines to create a sort of grid with each landscape separating the near from the far. Among Collom’s paintings my personal favorite was titled California it is a landscape which in the foreground has a ski slope full of tiny little skier’s surrounded by large pine trees and mountains. In the mid-ground is farmland which is represented as a colorful patchy grid of land spotted with tiny plants representing agricultural crops growing in the fertile land. In the far off distance of the background is a large body of water and just beyond the water is the city of San Francisco which is represented by a cluster of tiny buildings and the Golden Gate Bridge that stretches from the buildings, across the water.

 

Me standing next to my favorite painting in the exhibition, an oil on canvas titled California

An oil on canvas titled Foothill Farms

An oil on canvas titled Chambers Landing

An oil on canvas titled At the End of the Day

An oil on canvas titled Monochrome Hills

A limited edition Giclee titled 4 Boats

 

 

Blog #6: Lecture: New Media Artist Jill Fantauzza

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Blog #5: Lecture: New Media Art by Sean Clute

The flyer for the lecture, a sneak peak at Sean Clute's work

Sean Clute and I

Weaving Media: Interdisciplinary Experiments in New Media Art by Sean Clute

Sacramento State University, 6000 J St. Sacramento, CA. 95819

KDM 145, Wed March 11, 20015, 3pm-4pm

            The first potential new candidate for full-time hire at Sacramento State University had flown in all the way from Vermont, Sean Clute’s discipline is New Media. I was eager to attend this lecture since it would be my very first artist lecture experience. Clute experiments with New Media and Performance Art. He also works with video and sound. The subject of his work includes the human body and movement. One of Clute’s work’s called Mythos is an animation of ancient Greek Mythology characters the Olympic runners from an ancient Greek vase. Out of all of Clute’s work this one was my favorite. Here Clute uses the Olympic runners in a modern way by creating New Media design using drawings and video to make animation. He also uses Greek music in the background. He said he started with a concept, researched, took images, and put them into a system and used software to organize the information. From there he developed tools and a system and then “played with it”. Specifically Clute took images of the Olympic runners and put them in illustrator and converted the pixels into vectors which are scalable and easy to manipulate. He then uses puppet pins to turn the Olympic runners into movable puppets. He then uses a software and uses a “digital language”. Clute also showed various other works of his including a piece called Double Vision in which he incorporated sound, video, dancers and music. Another of his works he discussed was called Evolutionary Patterns and the Lonely Owl which was a hands on interactive installation which involved video games, dancers, digital imagery, lights, music and sound. This piece was a lot like the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

 

 

 Double Vision

 

Evolutionary Patterns and the Lonely Owl