Kiki Smith: Melissa Rood

My thesis takes a look at how Kiki Smith uses the themes of life, death, and resurrection in her printmaking. The idea of my project came from her Blue Feet etching on blue paper. She folds the paper with a French-fold so that it can also be turned into a book. I also did this on a piece of 8'x4' paper and instead of putting poetry on it like she did, I incorporated quotes from my paper.

Amy Adler

Amy Adler combines many art forms to create her own creative process of showing performance based art through fixed media. She combines photography, drawing and the ideas and principles of film to show her point of view. Through the use of these different medias Amy Adler is able to blur the lines which define the past and present as well as the ideas of attainment and loss.

I was able to create a sense of time and distance between the viewer and paper by:

- copied and pasted text over text to create layered effect

- deleted unneeded words and punctuation to alter paper

- printed paper

- photographed paper

- loaded pictures of paper into computer

- put the paper back in word

- altered color of paper

- printed paper

- pasted altered paper to white foam core

Chicago has made it a point to address society as a whole, confronting all of society with existing societal issues in such a way as to convey subtle messages of societal hierarchy, religion and feminist issues in a post modern way. The visuals in her artwork create a type of visual language for the viewer and bring about issues that society tends to push aside. Most people think in a pyramidal, hierarchical structure. She treats her works in a non-hierarchical manner to ensure that no one work from a series is given greater visual weight than the next. In her work, Chicago has strived for the effect of change within society.

Yves Klein

- Blue Sponge Relief








-Blue Monochrome

Yves Klein’s used his art to transmit his beliefs in what he thought of as the immateriality of man and the concept of the void. He thought of immateriality as the sensibility of man that was beyond the physical limits of the world. This could be represented by absolute pure color and in the concept of space. This is connected to the notion of “the void” or a territory of candor and freedom, a sort invisible protective zone. Though the principles of immateriality and the void can be seen in most facets of his work, Klein’s monochrome paintings, his sponge reliefs, and his retrospective work most readily show his preoccupation with spiritual beliefs in his art. Above is my project, which consists of my paper, with I tried to rework to show the concepts which were so important to the work of Klein. The rectangles in the middle are to represent Klein's views of the immateriality and the concept of the void, and the words of the paper that are spiraling around the rectangles are to represent the materiality and chaos of the world around us.

Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy creates environmental works that reflect the natural forces of time and change. Read on...