Marsden Hartley

Maddie Fenton

Painting I

Molly Zimmer

Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley was an American Modernist painter born in Lewiston, Maine. He was the youngest child in his family and his mother died when he was eight years old. His birth name was Edmund Hartley, but when his father remarried Martha Marsden, he took the name of Marsden when he was in his twenties. When he was fourteen, the rest of his family moved to Ohio, and left Hartley in Maine. He credits a large amount of his work to this experience because it evoked so much pain and loneliness. Hartley is known for his extreme texture and dark palette with oil paint in his paintings. Many critics admire his work for his erotic and deeply expressive and energetic forms. Hartley mainly painted landscapes of Maine’s jagged and rugged coastal terrain and its inhabitants, as Maine was his lifelong inspiration. However, he is also known for his series on Germany, Novia Scotia, and New Mexico.

Mount Katahdin (Maine), Autumn #2

oil on canvas

1939

Church At Head Tide, Maine

oil on canvas

1938

Log Jam, Penobscot Bay

oil on canvas

1940

Canuck Yankee Lumberjack at Old Orchard Beach, Maine

oil on canvas

1940

Storm Down Pine Point Way, Old Orchard, Maine

oil on canvas

1941-1943

Works Cited

Cotter, Holland. “‘Marsden Hartley’s Maine,’ His Muse, First and Last.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/arts/design/marsden-hartleys-maine-his-muse-first-and-last.html. 

“Marsden Hartley's Maine.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I.e. The Met Museum, www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/marsden-hartley. 

“Marsden Hartley's Maine.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I.e. The Met Museum, www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/marsden-hartley.

JAMES MONTOYA

Shawn Redman
Molly Zimmer
Painting 1

JAMES MONTOYA

                  Artist James Montoya, locally known and born in Santa Fe NM, has adopted Albuquerque as his current home. Montoya received his BAFA from UNM in 2010 and has started producing art for the local community since 2003. No doubt Montoya astonishes the community with his vibrant use of colors and precision of finely executed line work displayed in every medium he uses.

                        His primary work is in acrylic but has used every medium from encaustic wax, to watercolors and natural pigments, to airbrushing with automotive base coats and candies. With being such a modern and contemporary artist, information was terribly hard to attain; such as what medium was used or what size picture was, but his whole display of his pieces can be seen at local store Masks Y Mas on Central Ave here in Albuquerque. Unfortunately,  Montoya recently was robbed and all of his tools such as air brushing equipment, paint, finalized work ready for sale, even paintbrushes were stolen. Today, he his gaining speed with his Go Fund Me page and will be back on track creating his visions again. I wanted to chose a local artist  to help possibly propel them to the next level and give  an opportunity for exposure to Montoya since I enjoy his work. Most of Montoya’s pictures are done with an air brush, he also uses oil and acrylics; I wanted to let his artwork speak for itself, so here it is.

    

          

              

           

                  

        

Events James Montoya Hosted:

-Tractor Brewing Wells Park, "Art Fight", 2014-present

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Shows:

-Archetype Tattoo, "New and Recent Works" 2015: Acrylic

Albuquerque, New Mexico

-Muse Gallery, "La Bella Muerta; A Beautiful Death" 2014: Charcoal, Conte Crayon, Acrylic

Phoenix, Arizona

-Monarch Theater, "RAW Communique" 2014: Acrylic

Phoenix, Arizona

-Melting Heart Gallery and Boutique, "Cosmic Vibrations" 2014: Acrylic

Phoenix, Arizona

-Gallery La Melgrosa, "AZ/NM Connect" 2014: Acrylic

Phoenix, Arizona

-Satellite Coffee, "One by One x 100" 2014: Acrylic

Albuquerque, New Mexico

-Annual South Valley Marigold Parade, 2012-2014: Acrylic

Albuquerque, New Mexico

-Satellite Coffee, "New Works" 2013: Acrylic

Albuquerque, New Mexico

-Kimo Theatre, "People", 2012: Acrylic

Albuquerque, New Mexico

-Spanish Colonial Arts Society Spanish Market, 2001-2012: Straw Appliqué, Wood, Natural Pigments, Watercolors, Natural Marble Dust Gesso

 Santa Fe, New Mexico

-South Broadway Cultural Center, "Dia de Los Muertos", 2011-2012: Oil, Pencil, Ink

 Albuquerque, New Mexico

-South Broadway Cultural Center, "Our Lady of Guadalupe", 2010, 2012, 2014: Oil

 Albuquerque, New Mexico

-Trill Art Space, "Revenge of the Cool Kids", 2009: Acrylic

 Albuquerque, New Mexico

-Freaks of Nature Care Show, 2008: Acrylic Airbrush

 Albuquerque, New Mexico

-Super Nationals Car Show, 2007-2013: Airbrush

 Albuquerque, New Mexico

-The Donkey Gallery, "In the Cut", 2007: Stencil

 Albuquerque, New Mexico

Digital (Matisse Cutout) Painting

This painting is going to be our last assignment. 

11/27
I want you to create 5 digital paintings and a color palette selections in class on 11/27.

- 1 can be filtered image
- 1 can be black and white
- 3 must be finger painted in a program

Apple Apps
Sketchbook MobileX
Color Schemer
Adobe Photoshop Sketch
NetSketch

Android Apps
Adobe Illustrator Draw
Adobe Photoshop Sketch
Art Flow
DotPick
Draw Something
Ibis Paint
Medi Bang
PaperOne


11/29
Then on Wednesday, 11/29 we will create a collage and do an in-class painting to inform your homework assignment.  Please bring scissors or xacto knife, tape and a copy of each of your digital paintings. Please bring 2-- 12" x 18" piece of gessoed paper for this day.

Parameters: 
Size 18" x 24"
Colors -- any based on your 5 digital paintings.

Your assignment for this weekend is to start your 18" x 24" collage painting. Work on your painting until you are 90% finished.

12/4
Bring your collage painting into class 90% finished on Monday, 12/4 for an in-progress critique and in-class work-day.

Artist Statement

Olivia Simpson
11/21/2017



My idea for this project, was that it was viewing me from inside my head. What my life is like with my creativity and my crazy brain. What I didn't expect is that this project would take 20 hours to complete, but it was definitely worth it, because it turned out exactly how I wanted it to. My process starts with an idea, and from there I gather elements that I want to include in my piece. After those two steps, I work on composition and base work. This painting is in acrylic, and the stitching in the background is meant to represent that life is like a continuous patchwork blanket. If you don't like something, you remove it and replace it with something you want there instead. The focal point of my piece is the crocheted lady, which is meant to represent the other side of me. Not many people crochet under the age of 65, and its something that I enjoy doing. The embroidered embellishments are literally stitched onto the canvas with white thread matching the painted stitches. Making the edging was the hardest part for me, because it was complicated to figure out how to piece it together so that it wouldn't tangle. This is like Frida's work, because she had very intimate portraits, but unless you knew about her and her life they would seem normal. This is what I played off of in my piece because everything on it is important. I enjoyed this project, because it was unlike anything I have ever done before.

Artists Statement

Ryan Barfield 

11/20/2017 

Artists Statement 

My painting titled A Portrait of Chef Kaylie is oil on canvas and inspired by Frida Kahlo's paintings and the exhibit "Frida Kahlo: Her Photos". This rather large painting is a portrait of my sister in a chef's coat with her heart cut, sitting on top of her chest. Behind my sister are large chef's knives floating in the background, one with blood running down its blade. 

 My sister is my best friend, as well as, the person I most look up to in life. In this portrait I wanted to show a strong and confident person who gives her whole heart to the passion she pursues. I looked directly at Frida's painting Self-Portrait Dedicated to Dr. Eloesser for inspiration in my own painting. I liked how Frida portrayed herself as strong yet emotionless and how the background worked to inform the viewer just as much as the foreground. Although my sister isn't emotionless I wanted her pose to be silent and for the color and imagery to fill in spaces not filled by those emotions. 

My color scheme is simple yet vibrant. The canvas is surrounded by a red border that resembles blood, the same paint is also used to create the heart over her white jacket. I wanted the red to be a deep ruby red, to resemble the power that she possesses as well as the lust for greatness. The background is a deep royal blue gradient meant to show quality in her craft as well as thoughts of the unknown. The white jacket is meant to look clean and professional, sincerity in her word and purity in her craft.  

When I look at my sister I know exactly what she has done to get where she's at. I know all of the hard times and struggles she had to overcome to become a successful chef. She is strong and confident yet thoughtful and intuitive. No matter what she shows up in life and in work, she truly lives life with her heart on her sleeve.  

Artist Statement

My painting, Plucked Owl, is oil on 1.5' X 1.5' stretched canvas. Inspired by Frida Kahlo's "The Broken Column" in which Frida expresses her physical pain of a broken spine through the symbolic representation of a shattered ionic column inside her. I personally do not have physical pains great enough to drive my piece, so, I decided to drip out some taxing mental stressors.

The composition is a landscape of the Sandia Mountains, a view as familiar as the city itself while swaying away from the architectural works of other people. Despite the open wilderness, the message of my piece involves the opposite. There are three main focal points, a moon, an owl, and myself. I positioned myself in the front, slightly to the side of the center. This is because I, like many, instinctually see myself as the center, but knowledgeably see that I’m insignificant with respect to time. With this mindset, life becomes not just quantifiable but is in a state of inflation. Quantity decreases the value and the thought of procreation feels like a collective death rather than an individual life. This caused my nipple to bleed. In this piece, the bleeding nipple is used as symbolizing life and nurture and my fear of how it’s killing us.

I decided to paint myself nude for multiple reasons; Frida Kahlo is physically “exposed” in “The Broken Column” and I wanted to match a similar level of exposure and vulnerability; being male and having an exposed top felt less effective than full nudity. I also wanted to practice drawing the figure through a self-portrait. It seemed appropriate to use raw body depictions to express personal acceptance of being an ape on a rock (that is, a person on Earth) rather than anything more meaningful.

The owl has the more orthodox meaning behind it. Owls are an ancient symbol of death, bad health, and/or bad luck in multiple cultures. The owl looks at us as this omen gazes into this generation and the next. The owl is painted without feathers because this omen of ill health feels unnatural in the sense that it’s a derivative of human production. This makes the bird less recognizable at first. As people have had little time to recognize a featherless owl, our species has had little experience dealing the problem of not getting enough nature.

The moon functions to indicate the time of day, early morning, and light is just being shed. The ground is an array burnt sienna hues at varying values to distinguish light from dark and create depth. Burnt sienna is warm from the red, which contrasts nicely with the blue sky and flesh tones. The attempt was to make the ground appear warm and the air cooler. This was to convey feeling of immersion. Though I am artistically inclined to use warm earth tones, I felt that this piece benefitted from the atmosphere the colors communicated. The palate facilitates a sort of muddiness, a mental fogginess, that conveys the psychological anguish I wanted to communicate in this piece.  The contrast between the cool blue sky and the warmer natural pigments serve to reiterate my themes of exposure and mental honesty.

Artist Statement

Annie Reynolds

November 20, 2017

Painting I

Artist Statement

            My Frida Kahlo inspired piece is a self-portrait, painted on canvas with oil, titled Culture Shock. I used a thin layer of an almost teal, sea foam green color to create a solid background. The background has black, jagged lines across it, giving the illusion of it being shattered. In four separate shards, a small flag has been placed, each flag representing a place that is dear to me. The central focus of the piece is the portrait. The figure stands in the middle of the canvas, and from the top right corner a large piece of red material drapes down and wraps around her body. Only her face and a portion of her nude torso are visible from behind the material and her hair.

            The idea behind this piece was inspired less by the actual work of Frida Kahlo, and more by my emotional response to some of her pieces, as well as the intense love she felt for the people and places in her life. The piece is titled Culture Shock because, from the time I was three years old I have been moving constantly and have therefore developed a skewed sense of what, or rather where, I consider home to be. When people ask me where I am from, I struggle to give them an answer because it sounds something like this, “I was born in the U.S. but have dual citizenship both here and in Mexico. The majority of my life was spent in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, and I have never lived anywhere for longer than seven years. I don’t know where I’m from.” I have grown very fond of places I have lived, but I have also grown very fond of travel. Every place I have lived holds a special place in my heart. The figure in the image is nude because I wanted to show a sense of vulnerability. The shattered background in a way represents my shattered and fragmented background. The red material is a binding substance that ties all of these pieces of my life together.