Alan Rath

Triple Tongue Tree, 1998 Mixed Media

One Track Minds, 1998
Computers, software, aluminum, electronics, motors

U.S.A. 1-2-3, 1992
Mixed media

Pipes, 1997
Plastic, aluminum, electronics, speakers

Word Processor, 1986

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Alan Rath's passion for electronics was relevant even as a young child. He pursued his enthusiasm for technology during his young adult years and eventually recieved his Electrical Engineering Degree at MIT. Alan Rath knew there was more to electronics than just a machine. His curiosity and passion grew to create his art form that expressed electronics with a more "life-like" purpose. Various pieces of Alan Rath are composed of speakers, LCD screens, digital counters, and robots that he sculpts puts together to create a contemporary piece of art.
Source:http://sfgate.com/eguide/profile

Zoe Leonard

Diesel, 1998-2007, Dye Transfer Print

Mister Chicken,1998-2007, Dye Transfer Print 

TV Wheelbarrow,1998-2007, Dye Transfer Print

Smile, 1998-2007, Dye Transfer Print

Untitled, 1989, Gelatin Silver Print

After reviewing this weeks section I realized that a good majority of the artists were unknown to me.  I began by checking out all the artists as a whole and from there I chose.   To be completely honest this section was not my favorite conceptually, and I definitely did not value the artwork.  What I did value was the fact that for the first time I can definitively say that I did not like a large majority of the pieces.  I know that we were supposed to be thinking about the body, but the photos I chose were more geared toward the life that the body encounters.  I both enjoyed and appreciated Zoe Leonard's interpretation of life through photography and interesting mounting techniques 

Judy Chicago

Birth Tear/Tear - 1985

"Serigraph on Stonehenge Natural White"

The Creation - 1984

"Modified Aubusson Tapestry"

Guided by the Goddess - 1981

"Lithograph"

The Creation - 1985

"Serigraph on Black Arches"

Earth Birth - 1983

"Sprayed Versatex and DMC Floss on Fabric"

Judy Chicago has a BA and MA in painting and reflects her feminist views in most of her pieces. The above works by Chicago are all related to her Birth Project series. For the Birth Project series Chicago worked with over 150 needleworkers to combine painting and needlework in to a unique way to celebrate women's ability to give birth and creation in general.

www.judychicago.com/image-gallery, Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman

Mona Hatoum

Untitled (wheelchair II): 1999: Stainless steel and rubber

Marble Slicer: 2002: Marble and stainless steel

Grater Divide: 2002: Mild Steal

+ and -: 1994- 2004: steal, aluminum, sand, and electric motor

Cage-a-Duex: 2002: Mild steal and painted MDF

Mona Hatoum is a artist with a wide rang of media. She sculpts, uses video and photography, and even does works on paper. She began her work in 1980 with video and performance. Since then her work as geared more towards installations.

Source: http://www.whitecube.com/artists/hatoum/vii/

Images: www.google.com

Maureen Connor

Time Matters, 1999-2001, clock, dvd player, wooden shelf

Thinner Than You, 1990, Stainless Steel and cloth

The Water Lily, 1969, Oil on Canvas

Tea and Sympathy, 2001, Ink on Watercolor

Lung Rack, 1900, Steel, glass, wax

"Maureen Connor is a visual artist whose work combines elements of installation, video, design, human resources and social justice. Since 2000 she has been developing Personnel, a series of interventions concerned with the art institution as a workplace, which explore the attitudes, needs and desires of the staff at various institutions. Personnel and related projects have been produced for a diverse group of venues that include Periferic 8 Biennial for Contemporary Art, Romania, the Department of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, 2006; Wyspa Art Institute, Gdansk, Poland, 2004-7; Tapies Foundation, Barcelona, 2003; and the Queens Museum of Art, New York, 2001 among others. Currently she is working on an installation of Personnel for the Centre de Recherche en Droit Public, a think tank at the University of Montreal, as well as a book on Personnel to be published jointly by Wyspa Art Institute, Gdansk, Poland and Revolver Press, Frankfurt, Germany."

Paragraph copied from: http://www.maureenconnor.net/MCabout.htm

All images taken from "google images"

Hung Liu

Hung Liu

Da Hu- Big Tiger (2010)

Judgement of Paris (1992)

Profile II (2005)

Peach Blossoms (2007)

Sisters (2000)

Hung Liu (born February 17, 1948) in Changchun, China is a Chinese-American contemporary artist.

Hung Liu was born in the People's Republic, China and emigrated to the United States in 1984. She attended Beijing Teachers College in 1975 and studied mural painting as a graduate student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Her paintings and prints often make use of anonymous Chinese historical photographs, particularly those of women, children, refugees, and soldiers as subject matter. Liu's paintings - often large, drippy, and washed with layers of linseed oil - can be seen as critiques of the rigid academicism of the Chinese Socialist Realist style in which she was trained, as well as metaphors for the loss of historical memory. One of the first Chinese artists to study in the U.S., Liu's works represent the ongoing tension between emigration and immigration. Liu has received numerous awards, including two painting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and her work is represented in the permanent collections of major museums and private collections throughout the United States and Asia.

(Kara Kelly Hallmark, Encyclopedia of Asian American Artists)

Janine Antoni

Janine Antoni
 Inhabit, 2009
Digital C-print
Edition of 3 and 2 artist's proofs
116 1/2 x 72 inches (295.91 x 182.88 cm)

Janine Antoni 
Caryatid (Crackled green glaze over red oxide on an ovoid bodied vase with a truncated neck), 2003
C-print and broken vessel
Photo: 29 3/4 x 91 1/4 inches
Vessel: 11 x 12 x 18 inches
Crate: 48 x 25 x 32 inches

Gnaw, 1992, 
600 lbs. of chocolate and 600 lbs of lard gnawed by the artist
45 heart-shaped packages for chocolate made from chewed chocolate removed from the chocolate cube and 400 lipsticks made with pigment, beeswax and chewed lard removed from the lard cube

2038, 2000
C-print
Edition of 10 and 2 artist's proofs
20 x 20 inches (50.8 x 50.8 cm)

Janine Antoni
 Momme, 1995
C-print
Edition of 6 and 2 artist's proofs
35 x 29 1/3 inches (88.9 x 74.5 cm)

Janine Antoni grew up in the Bahamas and was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and Rhode Island School of Design. At Rhode Island School of Design is where Antoni began to experiment with different forms of media and found conceptual art. As seen in her piece Inhabit, she uses different medias and even a person is a part of the art work. Antoni is well known for using her body as part of her art. She leaves imprints of where she has been. Like in Gnaws the viewer can see the finger and teeth marks left by Antoni.

Guillermo Gomez Pena

Sin Titulo, 2005. Using the gun to capture the attention of the audience rather than the gender of the person.

Piedad Post-Colonial 2005. Depiction of Mercy.

New Barbarians, 2005. Creative depiction of North America.

Natural Born Matones, 2005. Women and men depicted as both equal and dangerous.

En El Hall Del Genocidio, 2006. Use of American, Hispanic and native apparel.

What intrigued me to showcase Guillermo Gomez Pena was his expression of his beliefs through photographs. Immigration plays a large role in his work and it is seen in a lot of his work including New Barbarians, above. Pena seeks to inform people about real, relevant issues through his work to uncover controversial areas and applies them in controversial photographs. The main scope of his focus looks on the relations between the United States and Mexico.

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The Puritan,1989-96 Text & hand colored

Arch of Hysteria 1993

Spider,1997 Steel, tapestry,wood and etc

The Destruction of the Father 1974

Spider Couple 2003

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a well known French American artist and sculptor. She was born in Paris on December 25^th in 1911. Later in life she moved to New York she married the American art historian Robert Goldwater in 1938. She became one of the leading American contemporary sculptors. She is one of the major artists of 20^th and early 21^st centuries. In 1990’s an appearance of a new figure came which was an obsession of the artist’s work which was a huge spider which she always identified with her mother. She most of the time named the spider as maman which means mother in French. In her early 20’s her mother passed away and she gave up studying mathematics and started learning more about art. Her father did not support her in that field and did not think she would do something with her life. She loved her mother dearly who was very supportive of her in every way. She was not on good terms with her father because he betrayed her mother by having an extramarital affair. While studying at Sorbonne her art professor told her she was a sculptor not a painter. Later in life her work was recognized and appreciated around the world. She died of heart attack in 2010 and till her 90’s she kept giving her best work.

-Gurkamal Kaur

James Luna

Pieces: Two Worlds; The Artifact Piece, 1987; High Tech Peace Pipe No. 1, 2000; Half Mexican/Half Indian, 1987; Electric Rattle, 2001

As a Native American, James Luna feels like his art is different than art by most Native Americans. He believes that many Indian artists have "forgot who they were", and his art is an attempt to express himself truly through various forms of media. Luna states that art allows Indians to express themselves "without compromise" and without any limits.