Dear Creature’s Fall 2012 collection.
very pretty
(via her-perishable-breath)
Brandon: Yes
Me: I just have an endless line of customers
Brandon: That's called a nightmare
omg
you only live once / i’ll try anything once mashup
i’m so glad i found this
lyrics of i’ll try anything once with the instrumentals from you only live once
The focus on my 1.4 50 mm lens is broken.
Working with it, with the last two photoshoots have been such a pain.
Even the manual focus. I’ll focus it and it’ll be sharp, and my camera will even be on a tripod, and yet the picture still isn’t in focus… dslfkhsldhjflsdjfldsjfldskj
crappy candid digital photo from the shoot i did today for motive
okay this is all you’re getting for now you can see the real pictures in a week
(Source: andy--whorehol)
:)
Lauren is cool!
You two are lovely!
Well…looks like it’s time to graduate. I will have to write another post about all this end-of-undergraduate-time business, but I just wanted to share the paintings from my Dream Look series. While these are not all of them, these are the ones that have been resolved. Working on this series has taught me more about painting than I ever ever ever could have imagined, and I feel like my ideas of the medium have been completely renewed. So now that school is over, I am excited to continue working on this body of work as I prepare to apply to graduate school this fall/winter. I truly feel this is only the beginning of something.
In order:
Hollywood Smiles, oil on canvas over panel, 48”x48”
Works in 17 Seconds, oil on canvas over panel, 48”x36”
1 Million Sold, oil on panel, 36”x48”
Perfect for Men or Women, oil on canvas, 48”x36”
After Diebenkorn, oil on canvas over panel, 48”x48”
Never Worry About Your Smile Again, oil on canvas over panel, 60”x48”
Artist statement:
Through my work, I address our culture’s obsession with beauty and looks and question the notion that changing one’s physical appearance can make one a better person. My recent work has dealt with topics in the realm of popular culture and mass media and has focused on celebrity and fame. However, recently, I have developed an interest in product advertisement, but more specifically in the advertisements for beauty products. Essentially, it can be presumed that the goal of any advertisement for a good or service is to provoke some sort of feeling of inferiority within the consumer in order to spark a sense of desire. The consumer can only reach satisfaction through purchasing the product, be it satisfaction from either self or societal approval. I am drawn to the beauty product advertisements because I feel they most clearly speak to my interest in these ideas of inferiority and desire that our culture is tied to.
In these paintings, I am able to use paint to edit the advertisements down to the ‘Before & After’ images that, when alone, makes the actual product ambiguous, which in turn makes the fact that a product exists to alter certain physical features seem a bit more bizarre. In the past, my work has been almost exclusively mixed media, with an extensive use of collage; however, for this most recent body of work I have made a return to exclusively using oil paint. I have always been compelled by the images and subject matter used by Andy Warhol and other artists of the Pop movement, though painters like Cy Twombly, Jim Dine, and Robert Rauschenberg have been influential to me through their handling of paint. Through creating a more worked surface that focuses on the utilization of paint, I hope to present the viewer with the images in a way they are not accustomed to seeing in order to encourage them to spend more time with and have a deeper awareness of the information that is usually consumed and accepted at a very fast pace.
May 2012
You’re brilliant, Adrian.
