Artist Research
Artist Research
Jen Dwyer
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Born in San Francisco, currently working in Brooklyn, NY
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Sculptural artist that works with porcelin to display themes of feminism, alchemy, California, Norse mythology, and popular culture
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" Always interested in women bodies, apparent how women stones of sexual subjugation are socially minimized and repressed as taboo..."
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the delicacy of the material combined with her subject matter creates a unusual juxtaposition.
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her biggest influence she noted was her high school teacher who did not put limits on her work and she still thrives off of that within her artwork today since she feels a lot of people, especially women are being suppressed to have limits based of social/political limitations.
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ideology of breaking silence, speaking up, and not censoring unpleasant events is what she hopes to instill in her viewers
Ernesto Neto
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Brazilian artist born in 1964
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he is a installation artist that aims for a sensory experience engaging touch, scent, see, and feel his works
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"For me mind and body are one thing always together and though that I seek to engage them."
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Explains the boundaries of physical and social space through interactive, tactile, and biographic structures that are reminiscent of skin and flesh utilizing crochet, thin fabrics and other materials
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challenges sculpture being a static object and attracts people to the space to transform their interactions between them as viewers.
Pepon Creasonnio
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Born in Puerto Rico in 1955
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educated at the university of inter- Americana in Puerto Rico & Herbert H. Lehman college in New York ( NY) and ercieved a MA from Columbia University in 1985
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" My principle commitment as an artist is to return art to the community."
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Is involved with highly elaborate installation pieces that create a scene.
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He embraces the decorative aspects of sculpture
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Aims to subvert prevalent standards of "Fine art"
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Favors functional items like bowls or blankets that typically are coded as feminine, domestic, or vernacular with him being a male artist
2010 - present
2010 - present
Sebastian Masuda
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Born in 1970, Matsumodo China
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Contemporary artist and father of Kawaii “cute” culture
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Over the past 20 years explored vision across stage, screen, museums worldwide does not particularly choose one medium to work with but is most known for his found and altered pieces of artwork
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Impels and utilizes participation within his works and revives a sense of childlike wonderment
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As his mediums and methods continue to evolve, his collaborative practice remains at the core of his work.
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Masuda plays on the major channels of pop culture to engage a vast audience in his unique vision. He designs visuals for some of Japan’s top brands, sets for film and theater, and the videos of superstar Kyary Pamyu Pamyu.
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extolling his message that “color carries an emotional impact and frees the mind” through his dynamic multimedia collages.
Marco Maggi
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Born 1957 in Montevideo, Uruguay
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Is a New York and Uruguay-based artist whose work incorporates common materials such as office paper, aluminum foil, graphite, and apples to create micro drawings, sculptures, and macro installations.
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Maggi’s work conceals its complexity and intricacy; one must literally approach it to gain full comprehension.
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He often takes a slow and humble approach to creating his artworks
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feels that too much of society is dependent on buy-consume-and throw away goods as well as modern technology to create this past paced world we all live in today. Maggi's response to this is by using dispose-able objects and creating small handmade etches, lines etc. within his work no matter how long it takes
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believes subtly is a very loud concept that allows for the most intimate experience
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“Slow viewers can read the same drawing ten times, switching perspectives and conclusions. […] I am interested in the particular protocol of manners and pace in the viewing process.”
Peter Anton
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Born 1963 in New Haven, Connecticut is an American artist and sculptor.
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Anton is known for his hyperrealistic sculptures around the theme of candy, sweets, and other foods in overwhelming large scales
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Food is a strong passion of Antons and is not just a source of sub-staining life but as a resource for gathering people and how they activate passions, emotions, allergies.
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Through the use of humor, scale, irony, and intensity in my forms, the foods we take for granted become aesthetically pleasing and seductive in atypical ways.
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"I like to create art that can lure, charm, tease, disarm and surprise. My sculptures put viewers in a vulnerable state so that I can communicate with their inner selves in a more honest and direct way. I activate the hunger people have for the things that give them pleasure and force them to surrender. "
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The sensual nature of the works stimulates basic human needs and desires that generate cravings and passion.
Scott Hove
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Scott Hove was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He considers himself a primarily self-taught artist.
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His work encompasses a broad variety of media, from sculptural installations to painting.
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These works reflect on the relationship between the natural world and mechanical civilization, and the drama that occurs during this interaction.
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Currently his work is from traditional faux cake making and decorative arts and craft skills to render the oftentimes jarring animal like objects and fantasy installations form this same material in repetition as well as his sculptural subjects.
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Hoves subject mater focuses on scientific argument, equality, human rights, democracy, beauty standards etc. presented though cake forms most of the time or have a sweet element in presentation but darker undertones.
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“In addition to doing objects, I do text cakes that have an irony to them or that have a political commentary. This one was intended to be kind of an ironic humor piece. Tragic, yet humorous. Making light of something very serious is something I do with these text cakes… It’s just a personal way that I process things that I find disgusting.”
Tanya Schultz
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Australian artist Tanya Schultz works as Pip & Pop her creative alias
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Schultz creates large immersive installations and artworks using a range of materials including sugar, glitter, candy, plastic flowers, everyday craft materials and all sorts of objects she finds on her travels.
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Her practice embodies both independent and collaborative processes across varying disciplines including installation, painting, wall-works and sculpture.
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She works to create a highly detailed work that embrace notions of abundance, utopian dreams and fleeting pleasure. She is fascinated with ideas of paradise and wish-fulfillment described in folk tales, mythologies and cinema. therefore all of her works are installation pieces to further push this idea of a make believe land of utopia
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within her current work is utilizes a lot of rainbows to which she draws much inspiration from "rainbows are strongly connected to folklore about finding or searching for other worlds, and magical phenomenon. I want the work to evoke a momentary sense of optimism…but it is also an opportunity to contemplate excess and overabundance.’
Thomas Kinkade
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Thomas Kinkade was born January 19, 1958 in Sacramento, CA
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known as the "painter of light" and he knew he wanted to paint since a very early age
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emphasized the simple pleasures of nature and inspirational messages.
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Throughout his life Thomas Kinkade shared his joy and used his paints in support of hospitals, schools, and humanitarian relief
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within all of his paintings he had hid a tiny hidden “N’s” representing Thom’s wife Nanette and many other paintings include the numbers 5282 as tribute to their wedding date May 2, 1982 as well as his children names being included in most of his paintings once they were born.
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His goal as an artist, who was Christian, was to touch people of all faiths, to bring peace and joy into their lives through the images he had created
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Thom’s dearest wish had always been that his artwork would be a messenger of hope and inspiration to others – a message to slow down, appreciate the little details in life, and to look for beauty in the world around us.
