Chapter 9 "For Your Consideration"

Personally if I was on the committee to decide to allow Fountain to be shown at the exhibition I would have voted to not have it shown at the exhibition. To me art is something intimate between the artist and the idea. Artists get inspired by an idea or concept and then interpret their idea through their art to communicate this idea with others. The other half of this intimacy comes when the artist is creating the work no matter what medium an artist used the physical action of making art gives it a personal meaning to the artist. For an artist creating their own work to display in their home is much more value than buying a generic artwork from the store. From my perspective this is almost insulting to artists that he can just go buy an object and not do anything to it to make it his own other than just writing a face signature on it.

My criteria for an exhibition would be artwork that is something handmade by the artist with a concept, intent, and purpose. I want to see that the artist put time and effort into their artwork and that there was thought in developing the concept that they want to communicate. 

Chapter 4 "For Your Consideration"

Provenance is the records that document an artworks ownership beginning with its creation date (pg. 20). During World War II many artworks were confiscated or looted and illegally sold to suspecting or unsuspecting buyers. This is still an issue today where there are still disputes over the rightful owners of artwork. These artworks are precious to the real owners and very valuable to someone who is trying to sell it illegally. This is why the provenance process is a very complicated and in-depth process to determine the true owners of the artworks. This shift has taken place to make sure that the artwork is credited to the proper artist. The conservators of these works do in-depth research on a piece of artwork by using high powered microscopes, different ultraviolet lights, and taking samples from the painting to determine the age and material used. Determining the proper artist for a piece of work is important because knowing the true artist can make a painting’s physical and societal value increase. 

Exhibition Call Northcutt Steele Gallery sample

Northcutt Steele Gallery Exhibition Call 

Deadline: May 1, 2017

Artists from within the MSU Billings college community are invited to exhibit their artwork in a college community art show. Students from inside or outside the Art Major community are welcome to exhibit their work.

Exhibition only open to current students of MSU Billings that are enrolled full time at the college. Work will be selected by a juror to determine what work will be shown.

Guidelines:

• Upload artist statement, and eight digital images of eight different works
• Artist Statement 500 words or less
• Images must be .jpg max file size 5MB
• digital artwork labeled as artist name, title, date, medium, and dimensions 

Sample naming digital file:
Last Name_image title_year_medium_dimensions

Contact Information:
Northcutt Steele Gallery
Liberal Arts Building, 1st Floor
Montana State University Billings
1500 University Dribe
Billings, MT 59101

Exhibition Call review of other calls

Gallery practices Exhibition Call

Step 2

Similar content in each call

o   Deadline listed near top of call in bold or colored letters

o   Description and introduction what the show is about and the theme

o   Rules for how the exhibition will show and receive art

o   Information on how information should be formatted and submitted

o   Contact information for the exhibit curators

How it is organized

o   Begins with introduction and description of show

o   Entry deadline in bold, colored, or highlighted letters

o   Submission criteria and proposal guidelines

o   Examples of how submissions should be constructed

o   Contact information for the gallery

Design/ positive and negative

·         Minnesota Artists

o   Starts with introduction, deadline highlighted in all caps lock to catch readers eye

o   Sub titles bigger and bolder than rest of text

o   Bullet points used to organize important information

·         Positive/Negative

+        Deadline and titles are easy to see

+        Bullet points used to organize information

+        Use of bold words to identify main points and important information

-        Not clear where application link is

·         Box 13

o   Fonts are the same size consistently

o   Bolding used for deadline

o   Email for submissions bolded

o   Submission criteria listed

·         Positive/Negative

+        Important things are bolded

-        Same size font not as eye-catching

-        No example given for submission format

·         Toronto Artists

o   Deadline is in red font

o   Introduction describes what the exhibition is about

o   Specifications for submissions guidelines bullet pointed

o   Example of format for digital submissions

o   Contact information

·         Positive/Negative

+        Red font for important dates

+        Bold for important information

+        Bullet points in guidelines to make following rules easier

-        Mention of fee payment not mentioned above in description or submission information

Exhibition Label Final

Lauren Baum

DNA

2016

Digital painting

40”X 30”

“You are worthy, our Lord and God,

    to receive glory and honor and power,

for you created all things,

    and by your will they were created

    and have their being.”   Revelation 4:11

Looking to the stars with a telescope than look to your hair with a microscope from large to small God’s wisdom and design can be seen in all aspects of the universe. It is difficult to think of these two drastically different realms together in the same space. By combining some of the smallest aspects of the human body and the great vastness of the universe, these images are meant to show that even the smallest elements in the universe were created with thoughtfulness and intent.

Astronomers have discovered many different and amazing cosmic features, which have inspired designs for this work. When observing the seemingly infinite wonders of outer space it is easy to forget that the creator of these massive cosmic wonders also created the smallest most complex parts of our own bodies. Recognizing that such complex elements of the universe and intricate parts of our bodies could not have developed by chance, is the first step in understanding the intent of this work.

Exhibition Label

Monumental to Miniscule

Title: DNA

2017 digital painting printed on poster board

Dimensions 26”x 36”

“You are worthy, our Lord and God,

    to receive glory and honor and power,

for you created all things,

    and by your will they were created

    and have their being.”   Revelation 4:11

This work is meant to display God’s wisdom in how intricate and thoughtful everything in our world and the universe is put together. By combining some of the smallest aspects of the human body and the great vastness of the universe, these images are meant to show that even the smallest elements in the universe were created with thoughtfulness and intent.

Outer space is such a vast and unknown place to us which makes us all the more curious about what all is out there. Astronomers have discovered many different and amazing cosmic features including, nebulae, other planets, star fields, black holes, and massive stars. When observing the seemingly infinite wonders of outer space it is easy to forget that the creator of these massive cosmic wonders also created the smallest most complex parts of our own bodies. This is where the idea stemmed from for this series of work which attempts to incorporate the cosmic realm and the microscopic realm in one image.

Understanding the Art Museum ch 3 questions

Art from Metropolitan Museum

Period: Early Bronze Age III

Date: ca. 2300–2000 B.C.

Geography: Central Anatolia

Culture: Hattian

Medium: Copper alloy

Dimensions: H. 6 1/4 x W. 5 3/4in. (15.9 x 14.6cm)

Classification: Metalwork-Sculpture

Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1955

Accession Number:55.137.5

Date: mid-900s

Geography: Made in probably Constantinople

Culture: Byzantine

Medium: Ivory

Dimensions:Overall: 6 5/16 x 5 1/8 x 1/4 in.(16 x 13 x 0.6 cm)

Classification: Ivories

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917

Accession Number:17.190.133

The Love Song

Artist: Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham)

Date:1868–77

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions:45 x 61 3/8 in. (114.3 x 155.9 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1947

Accession Number:47.26

The information that is given for each work of art includes the name, dimensions, medium, culture, time period, and credit line. These are all aspects of art that are included in a museums description of each piece of art work.

In the Yellowstone Art Museum the large gallery space upstairs is the one I have most visited because that is the gallery that holds the new exhibits that come to the museum. The space is large and can hold a lot of wall art as well as larger sculptural pieces on the floor. The works are arranged on the wall, and are located next to the other pieces made by the same artist. The lighting is focused on the pieces on the walls and in the middle of the gallery giving them the focus within the space. The temperature was at a normal temperature that was not noticeably cold or too hot. The humidity was not noticeable in the gallery space. With larger exhibitions the museum puts up ropes to keep guests from getting too close to the artwork. The gallery spaces do not have windows in them in order to protect the work from the sun while it is on display in the museum.

Kiki Smith

The Woman with Sheep is a piece which the art is located within the space of the viewers causing the guests to move around the pieces as if they were really sleeping in the gallery space. Making the art three dimensional and putting it into the space of the audience causes the viewer to move around and observe the sculptures from different angles.

Bill Viola

Stations a piece by Viola is a screen that is showing an image of a figure that is falling, and is then casting its reflection on a mirror that is placed under to give the effect that the figure is moving to the mirror on the floor. The screens are separated from the wall which gives them a more ominous feel because of the dark environment combined with the strange figure falling through the space.

Jenny Holzer

Holzer’s work relies on text that is projected on a large scale onto monuments or other popular locations. The effect of her work is greater that it would be in a gallery space. Because it is out and projected on important building and monuments it gives It a more important and intimidating feel.