11 TMA Redux

Artist: Sandy Skoglund

Skoglund is an artist of both photography and installations. She creates surrealist images by building an elaborate set with crazy colored furniture and objects. Once she is done building the set she photographs it with actors as her subjects. Her subjects or objects are normally a contrasting color and there is also many of the one object. Skoglund’s works of art brings two mediums together to create her own form of art. By combining these two different mediums she has gone over and above the standards set for photography and installations moving into a new era of technology.

Artist: Mary Heilmann

Heilmann is an abstract artist that combines the elements from popular culture and craft traditions. These works of art have been influenced deeply by her childhood and adolescent years. But it is what influenced those years that influences Heilmann’s works. There was the impact of her West Coast childhood, which is represented in the vibrant colors, sense of boundless possibilities and experimentation. The sense of movement and rhythm in her works were influenced by the Heilmann’s love for popular music. These influences are shown through out all of Heilmann’s works in some way or another. It is these influences of different medias that makes her work art of the digital art era.

Artist: Jason Munn

The inspiration behind Jason Munn’s art is his love of independent music and design. First Munn was creating different projects for local bands just for fun, but eventually became a full time designer. Munn designs many different products from book covers, album packaging, t-shirts and posters. The following pieces of art are examples of his versatile band poster designs. These works show how Munn likes to keep a very simple composition, often only keeping what is essential to the design. Munn’s style of art is a perfect example of digital art, where all of his works come directly from designs made on the computer. His technique though is not limited to the fact that it is all digital.

Artist: Carter Mull

The images on display are a representation of Carter Mull’s process of creating pictures through rephotographing and altering existing images. The process Mull has adapted expands the conventional definition of the medium of photography. Three of the images in this collection takes a local newspaper, the Los Angeles Times and severs as the starting point for the body of work. Using both digital and analog manipulation alters the images resulting in bursting colors and vibrant patterns. The other images in this collection represent these techniques, but using his own photography as his starting point and expanding off of them. These techniques also draw parallels between the transformation of photography and print media in the digital age.

Artist: Jack W. Stauffacher

Artist, Jack Stauffacher has always been fascinated with the craft of printing and the history of printing techniques. These three images on display here are perfect examples of Stauffacher’s experimentation with repetitive inking techniqueMarys, as well as exploring the ways in which mind hand, type, ink and paper come together. With his expression of typography it allows Stauffacher to go outside the precision of traditional typography and adopt the potential for randomness and spontaneity. The techniques are not just used in manipulating the letters, but as well the order and the angle of the image. Stauffacher has taken everyday typography and made it thoughtful art.