Sunday, February 10, 2013

Jonas Wood


 
            On Thursday January 13th, Jonas Wood presented his body of work to our class. His primary focuses are painting, drawing, and collage pieces. His work contains a lot of interior space and patterns.  I personally see him as more of a designer than a painter. He produces work like he is a human conveyer belt.  He is constantly working in a loop where he starts with a collage and then makes a drawing.  Next he creates a painting and then he starts at the beginning, lopping back to collage work. He didn’t seem much attached to his work.

Rob Rhee



            On Thursday evening Rob Rhee presented his work which spanned across many medium.  His works range from more traditional methods such as photography, silkscreen, and welding, to more experimental methods such as sewing skins of eggplant to gluing pig intestines together.

            Rob works with both organic and manmade materials.  It feels like he is trying to control or alter the organic materials he uses in his works. An example would be when he works with gourds. He grows gourds in welded cage apparatuses allowing them to grow in an altered state so they distort their common shape while they grow.