Conwell Egan

installed

panels

color side

Kristopher Breault

Danielle Helkowski

Megan Scanlin

Paul Shields

Kelly Miklavcic

Rhianna Brennan

MaryBeth Moschouris

Krystyna Milnes

Laura Paglione

Gina Baiocchi

Conner O’Donnell

Grace Scullion

Charles Minnick

working images 03.09.03

Charles has begun a larger image using tracings created by all of the participants. The 5-6 larger paintings/drawings that we will create will be composed by tracing our tracings of Van Eyck.

Our response to paintings/drawings by Julie Mehretu, Trenton Doyle Hancock, and Marcel Dzama

Julie Mehretu
The center rectangle draws you into the center.
It looks like everything is getting pulled into the center.
It takes a long time to see the whole.
Did she start with a map?
It is Starwarsesk - it looks like a world exploding.
It is neutral. It does not evoke strong emotion (Van Eyck's Painting is also neutral)
I do not like the picture. It looks like puke, it makes me sick, and it looks like the colors in puke.
I like the bright colors that stand out, but everything is grayed down.
It is busy, like it is always moving.
It looks like a screen saver.

Trenton Doyle Hancock
Is that a squid in the forest?
The drawing looks overlapped.
There is a feeling of transparency.
The drawing keeps drawing you back.
You want to keep looking at the details.
There are different drawing styles in one drawing.
There are smooth lines and hatched lines.
The animals all appear to be possessed. They all have red eyeballs.
The drawing is random. It may have meaning, but it may not. It does not need to have meaning. If I knew what it means it would not necessarily make me like the drawing better.
I like that it is random and that we do not know what it means.

Marcel Dzama
The drawing is weird and subjective.
The woman does not have shoes on. (St Francis does not have shoes on in Van Eyck's painting)
He might be saying something with the red, because all the other colors are muted.
The drawing is bland, except for the red tomato heads.

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working images 02.14.06

We voted on four colors. There was a tie between light green and dark green. The divide was intense, until we just decided to just go with five colors.

Our response to Warhol

I see the paintings as being sacrilege with intent
The emblems modernize Leonardo's painting.
Warhol says something using the emblems without spelling it out.
It looks vintage, like something you buy at a flee market.
Behind money, beauty, and technology there is faith.

59 cents = greed? Judas's ransom? red represents blood? triangle over the 59 represents the trinity?
Dove = vanity? beauty? peace? cleanliness? pink skin color?
GE = technology? light? "the light of the world?" light blue like the sky? Circular like the sun?

Maybe Warhol is saying there is more to Leonardo's Last Supper painting?
Jesus is hidden in everything?
The camouflage represents war, and the tension at the last supper table.
Judas hiding his motives and his identity.
You can see abstract figures in the camouflage.

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first project

Marker on 100% translucent rag paper. 8 x 10 Drawings are glued together using an acrylic medium. The finished objects read like plastic panels.

(all names will be updated soon)