Shepard Fairey

anyone interested... i was surprised to see Shepard Fairey in this documentary about Mark "Gator" Rogowski... it's a disturbing story, but fairey is in it quite a bit!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271211/

Truck Press: 10.22.10 not necessarily in order...

public art: chris atcheson/ mira loma skatepark

drift project

I arrived downtown not sure what I'd choose as my theme. I parked and looked for the closest aesthetically pleasing image. The most interesting things I found were cracks in concrete. I found a beautiful one across a water access lid in the sidewalk. Along the way I found beautiful images of not just water, but so many different and unexpected objects having to do with water. This project caused me to view things I've seen a hundred times before in a whole new way.

psychogeographical drift

howling wolf / john taylor

The painting by Howling Wolf is obviously more abstract. The painting by John Taylor is representational of realism. It shows a structured, focused way of thinking. Everything is literal. Howling Wolf displays more of a connection to spirituality, more of a connection to the earth. As if he's thinking of them as viewers as well. John Taylor's painting portrays the Indians only as men, as warriors. They are in the shadows. While in Howling Wolf's they are in the light and there are mostly women. This tells me that they view their women more highly than is shown in Taylor's work.

Role #4 of the Artist: Shirin Neshat

Role #4 of the artist is to give form to the immaterial, hidden or universal truths, spiritual forces or personal feelings. The piece I chose to write about is a photograph by Iranian Photographer Shirin Neshat titled, Rebellious Silence,1994. http://www.gladstonegallery.com/neshat.asp?id=624

This is a photograph of the artist herself dressed in a traditional Muslim covering called a chador. Her face is divided by a rifle and inscribed by a farsi poem written by Tahereh Saffarzadeh. This poem speaks of many Iranian women’s belief in Islam. They believe only within Islam are women truly equal to men. They say the chador, which prevents them from becoming a sex object by keeping them covered, is liberating. The gun represents the division of Islam from the west.

            Neshat was born in Qazvin Iran in 1957 to middle-class parents with western ideals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirin_Neshat

After the Iranian Revolution her parents lost everything and she returned to Iran. She began her body of work “Women of Allah” as a way to cope with the changes she’d experienced in modern culture compared to pre-revolution Iran which she grew up with. Her work is mainly focused on the lives of modern Islamic Women, their political and social roles in contemporary society and the spiritual and intellectual forces which guide them.