Issues in Contemporary Art Final

Title: A Matter of Time Artist: Richard Serra Date: 2005 Medium: Weatherproof steel sculpture Significance: Serra manipulates large spaces so that the viewer must conform to them. No one vantage point is more or less important than the other.

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Title: Black City Artist: Julie Mehretu Date: 2007 Medium: Ink and acrylic on canvas. Significance: Mehretu uses maps, blueprints, weather maps, etc. in her work and works on architect's vellum with ink and colored pencil. This is a metaphor for the way cities are always changing.

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Title: Maelstrom *looks like metal tree* Artist: Roxy Paine Date: 2009 Medium: Steel sculpture Significance: created for the roof of the Met. This piece is 7 tons of welded steel tubes and plates.

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Title: Shibboleth Artist: Doris Salcedo Date: 2007 Medium: Digital print on paper Significance: "Shibboleth" takes its title from the Old Testament story in which the ability to pronounce the word was used by the victorious Gileadites as a test to identify members of the tribe of Ephraim who were trying to sneak back into their home territory. It is about the divides between peoples.

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Title: Sunset Slide Artist: Carmen Smith Date:2020 Medium: Oil on canvas Significance: Carmen Smith is inspired by architectural drafting techniques, her paintings explore the emotional and intellectual attachments we make to place. She is interested in capturing how places influence our experiences, inform our memories, and can even become part of our identity.

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Title: Rompers Artist: Motohiiko Odani Date: 2003 Medium: Graphic enhanced videography Significance: Odani is interested in mutations and gene manipulation. Uses actors, set design, and stages to create the video.

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Title: Stellar Axis: Antarctica Artist: Lita Albuquerque Date: 2006 Medium: sphere sculpture Significance: This work is composed of 99 blue spheres placed close to the South Pole. She arranged them into the constellations of the Southern Hemisphere using GPS.

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Title: Demo Artist: Heide Fasnacht Date: 2000 Medium: Graphite powder Significance:

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Title: Everyone I have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 Artist: Tracy Emin Date: 1995 Medium: Tent sculpture Significance: This tent is embroidered with everyone the artist slept with for the past three decades.

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Title: Icicle Spiral (Treesoul) Artist: Andy Goldsworthy Date: 1985 Medium: Significance: This work demonstrates time because it is in a constant state of flux (flowing).

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Title: Vanitas Still Life Artist: Pieter Claesz Date: 1630 Medium: Oil on panel Significance: Each of the objects in this painting symbolize the passing of time and mortality. Pieter is known for his monochrome still lifes.

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Title:2:43 PM 2/29/20 Artist: Kellyann Burns Date: 2020 Medium: Oil on All-Dibond Significance: Burns titles her paintings according to when she finishes them

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Title: Animal, Vegetable, Video, Memories of Manhattan from a Millennium Ago Artist: Sam Easterson Date: 2000 Medium: Animal video Significance: This still is from an on-going project that is attempting to film the world through the eyes of different animals. Easterson believes animals are equal.

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Title: Apparatus for the Distillation of Vague Intuitions Artist: Eve Andree Laramee Date: 1994 Medium: Still life assemblage Significance: The lab equipment is labeled according to their measurements, which include, "a handful", "a mouthful", and "matter of chance."The artist is commenting on the subjective components of the scientific method.

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What does "situation specific" mean?

Art that's meaning is specific to its situation, the meaning could change depending on the circumstance.

How can abstract art represent spirituality?

Artworks that explore aspects of spirituality include, in addition to those that focus on contested issues, an array of works that signal an undiluted sense of faith and optimism.

What is "body writing" according to Suzanne Anker?

Body writing is a pattern of dots and dashes that can be used to represent the complete set of chromosomes of a cell of a living organism. Anker looks at different animals writing as if they were different languages.

Discuss artists who explore art and science in their work; using four works of art, examine two who celebrates science and two who focuses on the negative consequences of scientific experimentation.

Celebrates: Liga Albuquerque (Stellar Axis) Motohiiko Odani (Rompers). Negative: Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef and Sam Easterson

What medium does James Turrell use?

Choreography and celestial light.

Why do Chris Ofili and Andres Serrano use bodily fluids in their work?

Chris Ofili and Andres Serrano use bodily fluids in their work to challenge contemporary Catholic ideas about what is sacred and what is sacrilegious, or taboo.

What is "counter memory"?

Historian Michel Foucault coined the term "counter memory" to describe the recovery of lost history when contemporary artists often want to collect and tell the stories of people who for a long time were left out, or marginalized, in history books and the visual record.

How has the display of art been addressed by contemporary artists?

In the setting of an art museum, the display can invite comparisons of the aesthetic, political, and commercial aspects of the medical and drug industry and the art world.

Give an example of a word used in virtual reality that describes a place.

Liquid architecture is a term that refers to structures that mutate or expand into multiple, seemingly non- Euclidean dimensions.

What is spiritual about Agnes Martin's process?

Martin draws viewers into a realm of endlessness: a dense pattern of horizontal rectangles appears to repeat infinitely, and this sense of infinite space registers as timelessness.

What is the psychic meaning of a place?

Place can be a central facet of ones identity.

How does Alexis Rockman deal with genetic testing in The Farm?

Rockman's The Farm shows a world in which the demands of agribusiness override the integrity of animals and plants. She shows bioengineered versions of animals and depicts modifications that have occurred in labs.

What is the difference between space and place?

Space is something abstract, without any substantial meaning. While place refers to how people are aware of/attracted to a certain piece of space

Name two characteristics of time.

Time is important in art as a subject, theme, and medium.

What is kinetic art?

art that contains moving parts. It is designed to move, and its physical form changes visibly as someone watches.

What is creolization?

the process by which elements of different cultures are blended together to create a new culture.