When i first thought of remix I thought of a remix of a song. So once I heard song I started listening to music to see if I could get some inspiration and I ended up listening to one of my favorite artist “Kid Cudi”. I decided to get all my favorite lyrics from a couple different songs and collab them with a picture of Kid Cudi in the middle of the photo.

Artist: Micol Hebron

Instagram: unicornkiller1

Micol Hebron is an assistant professor of the department of Art at Chapman University. Micol has taught art to every level of education from kindergarden to University. Micol also is a well known feminist that has done many protests and is well know for being the creator of the male nipple template.

The art I have seen from Micol is mostly pictures and some contain some cleavage. This is because her current work is on addressing how ideas of essentialist feminism and central core imagery open new dialogues in comtemporary art. Her recent photos taken have been aimed to art history, humor, and intiate body imagery to explore how the female body can create positions and images of empowerment. These pictures come with a powerful message behind them.

One photo I remember Micol showed us which caught be completely by surprise is where she was in the desert and she took a picture where her pubes looked like the bush in the background and I guess she just felt like that bush looked like her pubes and wanted a picture. Another one is her with no top on at a cafe in 2011 and she did that to express how she feels about her body and how comfortable she is and how it should be normalized.

This experience has been the most memoriable artist conversation that I’ve had so far. The work she created I have seen before but had no clue she was the creator and is an artist and works as an assistant professor. This all amazed me seeing the protests she did and her work on feminism. I did enjoy the conversation, nothing was boring each slide brought something new.

• 

I had some spray cans and started experimenting with the colors and found my favorite ones and added my name on it.

• 

• 

My idea for this activity was to make something useful after losing it’s value.I used a gatorade bottle, a knife to cut the bottle, electrical tape. Yes, the gatorade was empty and going to get recycled so instead I just turned it into a pencil holder. The tape let me put a design on the bottle which made the pencil holder look better.

• 

• 

• 

• 

• Google

The link above contains this weeks activity – Vlogging

Artist: Masha Soroudi

Exhibition: Nature’s Cadence

Media: Nature

Website: http://www.mashasoroudi.com

Masha Soroudi is an Iranian artist born in the capital of Iran,Tehran. Born in 1981, right after the Islamic Revolution, this gave Masha the opportunity to travel depending on the feels in the revolution, this lasted til she finally settled in Southern California.

The way Masha captures natures beautiful and peaceful moments gives off a comforting and relaxing vibe. The story behind the art makes it all come together. Her art shows nature’s growth, fun colors, and smooth textures that give a sense of calmness.

Masha being an immigrant and being far from home can like others leave her with identity issues. Leaving her homeland left an emptiness in her heart. Her plants can relate to her little did you know. They can relate not being able to grow and how frustrating it can be or having improper nourishment but ending up moving on. Many have struggles just like these and it’s good to have someone in this case something to be there for us.

I like when artist make their art personal to themselves, she can relate herself to a plant and she take pictures of plants of how beautiful their growth is and the details that go with it. Masha has to has a purpose when taking the pictures and she does she takes pictures that mean something their to her, nature, beauty. The coolest part is when it’s all three but sometimes she takes pictures of when it’s not the best times either which makes it more relate able to people.

I felt relaxed when I was drawing I felt like there way no wrong way just to keep moving. The results are there and you might get lost looking at it but it has only one start and one finish.

Artist: Benjamin Kaita

Exhibition: Nuccio Group

Media: Drawing and painting

Gallery: LBSU School of Art; Dennis W. Dutzi Gallery

Benjamin is an undergraduate student and he is pursuing his bachelors in Fine Arts in drawing and painting. His only interest at the moment is art, he only has time for art and sleep basically. Art is his life. He likes to explore relationships, being connecting to someone or something. He like painting connections from far and close up to show how people can connect with different types of things such as his paintings.

Benjamin’s thoughts on his paintings is to show a connection and he does it with lots of detail . His paintings are very detailed from the main part of the painting to the back ground. Each line he draws seems to have a purpose and makes the painting have life. He drew it in black and white maybe for a reason but he didn’t tell us. The depth in his paintings are really nice it really looks like its a long hallway in a hospital.

Benjamin is talking about human beings relationship to nature. His drawing show how we distance ourselves from the open and natural world through increasing urbanization. He likes relationships and connections so that’s he painted the boy in the the stable , the boy on the horse, and the boy looking at the worse lay down. His paintings show or resemble a connection.

The art caught my eye I thought the art was a pictures. They were so detailed that they looked like paintings so when I got closer i saw it wasn’t and it amazed me so that’s why I wanted to talk to Benjamin and get to know more about the art. I thought when I first saw it that it was a little boy and his horse so they did kind of has a connection. I understand the bond they formed and I feel like we saw parts their lives together.

• 

• 

• 

My story is about homelessness and helping them out. I feel like I did good, we got him a meal that he didn’t have before and that’s always good, you can never turn down a free meal.I feel like us giving him the food was the best part cause you can want to help but will you actually help. Yes the one of him sleeping on the grass with only a blanket to keep one, it’s sad to see. I would want to get to know a little about the person like their name. I feel like their can be many tings you can photo stories you can tell in your daily life.

Artist- Casandra Aguilera

Exhibition- Metal and Jewelry

Media-

Gallery- LBSU School of Art, Gatov Gallery West

Casandra is an undergrad student apart of the studio art program. She likes to create stuff and it doesn’t matter what media it is. Casandra said ” A lot of my stuff is conceptual, but I fell like most of the subjects of my work surrounds mental illness, when you look at it you’re just like, “oh it’s this” or “oh it’s that” but usually, I have a deeper meaning to it in which you wouldn’t be able to know what it is by just looking at it. If I were to explain it to you, it would make a lot more sense.”

The art I saw looked like it was meant to look messy on purpose. It is suppose to be a spoon and a bowl but the bowl has holes in it, it also looks if the bowl is broken in different parts on it. The artist even decided to put a band aid on it to emphasize it’s broken. It also looks bent in some areas but the bowl and spoon are still in tacked. The colors make it stand out with its aqua blue and a tan color to compliment it. The bottom of the bowl is aqua blue and the top part is tan or brown. The spoon is full aqua.

Casandra work was a representation of how she was feeling when she was making it. She felt broken felt broken when she was making her art that’s why is there cracks in it being tied to show the process of being put back together. She mentioned to us it took her forty hours to complete her project and she usually spends six to ten hours in the studio straight without anything to distract her. The only thing on her mind is her art nothing else. She also does not eat when she’s in the studio she waits til afterwards and has a large meal.

My experience was at the exhibition went well, I felt like some of these artist are underrated. I was surprised with the quality of their work, I found so many interesting pieces in the matter of a few seconds. When I saw the art it caught my eye cause they were some crazy looking ones and I started to look into more detail and saw every little part of the work what gave me more information on the piece. It seems cool to make things from metal and turn them into something totally new and for it to have deep meaning seems even harder to do.