Ann Hamilton

(aleph · video) 1992/93

Color-toned video and LCD screen, with sound

linings · video (1990/93)

Color-toned video and LCD screen, silent

between taxonomy and communion (1990/1996)

Steel table, iron oxide powder, and approximately 14,000 human and animal teeth

the capacity of absorption · video (1988/93)

Color-toned video and LCD screen

untitled (dissections . . . they said it was an experiment) 1988/93

Color-toned video and LCD screen

Ann Hamilton was best known for her large-scale installation laden with many different meanings behind it. She translates her social life to personal lived experiences as well as her pass history experience. With her expression of experience, she works through memories and use her body in videos to express herself. Since 1980s, she has created more than 60 installations that includes sculpture, architecture,video, the spoken and written words with human presence. Her artwork expression is based on her knowledge of pass time and she expresses them by inanimate objects.

Heide Fasnacht

"Off Track" 2007, Contact Paper, Pantone.
"R.E.M. IV" 1996-97, Graphite on Paper.

"Demo" 2000, Neoprene Styrofoam, Urethane Foam, Graphite, Pigment. "Jump Zone" 2008, Tape, Styrofoam, Neoprene. "Exploding Plane" 2000, Graphite over Neoprene.

The artist Heide Fasacht was born 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio. Heide Fasacht captures the beauty in catastrophe with her intricate, freeze-frame sculptures. Her work is instantaneous, detailed, and captures a split second in time. Fasnacht compares the biological to the physical sciences. Her work displays two and three dimensional sculptures, and drawings, of images in moments of time that otherwise would only last in the blink of an eye.

http://the-artists.org/artist/Heide-Fasnacht

Judy Baca

'Oliver North' 1986, oil stick on paper

'The Sacred Heart' 1983, oil pastel on paper

'La Mestiza' 1991, pastel on paper

'Face of the Goddess' 1985, pastel and oil stick on paper

 'Great Wall of Los Angeles' 1976-2003, acrylic on concrete

 

World renowned artist, Judy Baca was born on September 20,1946 in Los Angeles, California. Baca's work mostly focuses on the lives of the unprivileged. Her work consists of several murals, paintings, drawings, monuments, and  mixed media. Baca expresses her art work through the different challenges that have occurred through history and preserves them for the future generations. "Collaborative art brings a range of people into conversations about their visions for their neighborhoods and their nations.  Finding a place for those ideas in monuments that are constructed of the soil and spirit of the people is the most challenging task for public artists in this time.", this is one of Baca's most famous quotes because describes how she feels about her art work and how she would like people to perceive it. 

Kara Walker

Still from 8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of an African-America, Parts 1-8
2006
Animation shadow puppets

Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civic War as It Occurred Between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart

1994

Cut paper on wall

Slavery!Slavery! Presenting a GRAND and LIFELIKE Panoramic Journey into Picturesque South Slavery of “Life at ‘Ol’ Virginny’s Hole’ (sketches from Plantation Life)” See the Peculiar Institution as never before! All cut from black paper by the able hand of Kara Elizabeth Walker an Emancipated Negress and leader of her Cause

1997
Cut paper on wall

Endless Conundrum, An African Anonymous Adventuress
2001
Cut paper on wall

Burning African Village Play Set with Big House and Lynching
2006
Cut paper in display box

Kara Walker was born in 1969. Walker’s work shows themes in mainly sexuality, race, repression, and power. “Most pieces have to do with exchanges of power, attempts to steal power away from others” (Kara Walker, 2003). She uses past images of history to explore the racial issues of the present. At the age of 27 she received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur grant. She now works as a professor of visual arts at Columbia University.

http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker/Main/IntroductionToThemes