Alternate assignment for students in Studio Art or Honors Visual Art who are unable to attend the artist talk on Tuesday, March 19. Please read the following prompts below and respond to each prompt in the comments section (5 POINTS, due FRI M)
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Adam Catrambone
3/19/2013 08:34:15 am
1. His work mainly focuses on the environment and water, both with topics such as Acid Rain and Heavy Clouds, and also through the use of recycled common materials to form larger patterns.
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Vendi
3/19/2013 08:47:40 am
I think the issues he tackles through his artwork are actually about humanity. He uses something vital for life, water, and and puts it in a context that makes you question you existence.
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Callie Riek
3/19/2013 09:39:34 am
I think his work speaks to the relationship we have to the Earth. As I scrolled through his pieces, I noticed a lot of them were made from materials that would otherwie be considered trash, and the titles ("Acid Rain", "Heavy Clouds") seem to address big issues concerning the state of the environment. I espeicially found the work "Bottled Life" interesting, mostly because when I looked at the pictures, it said there was a performance to go with it. I also loooked at pictures of the performance, and it looked like people were circle the structure, making attempts to get away but always being to glued to its surface. I think the artist was trying to bring focus to the ways we treat our waste: we don't need individual water bottles that we use once then throw away. They don't seem like a big deal when you only drink one, but if everybody drinks one, they begin to pile up. We then have to deal with the problems they create, we cannot avoid them.
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Laura Buczek
3/19/2013 10:34:32 am
1. The issues that his work addresses mainly deal with the environment as well as issues facing the environment. These are both issues that humans impose on the environment as well as how the environment responds back to human action. He explains how our environment and surrounding areas function after, in my mind, exposure to industrial human activities.
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3/19/2013 12:36:43 pm
1. He addresses mostly environmental issues especially dealing with his main medium--water. He uses water because it links people with their environment. One issue he focuses on is pollution and how it affects the weather (acid rain).
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Aidan Chisholm
3/19/2013 01:20:21 pm
He seems too focus on human impact over the environment, mainly water which is a very important resource. He also uses a basic environmental idea and portraying it in modern, human way. For his project "Walls" in 2009, I don't know if the bottles are actually filled with water, but I presume that it intends an idea of restriction kind of like the borders and boundary's project we've been doing. That humans are only inhibiting themselves when it comes to the things that we have to share with nature. For my question I would like to know what works he intends for the future, and if they'll share a similar theme.
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Ian Brown
3/20/2013 12:18:38 am
1.He mostly focuses on the environment using recycled materials to get his point across. He uses water as his main medium. He focuses on issues like pollution that cause problems like acid rain.
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Tessa ter Horst
3/20/2013 10:20:27 am
1. In his work, he explores the intersection of people and the environment, mostly through water. I think that he is also exploring the idea of the effects of the environment on people and their cultures. He uses water and water bottles in art that brings in the viewer, and in some, even makes the viewer part of the work.
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Kelly Hsu
3/20/2013 10:23:26 am
In his artworks, he mainly focuses on expressing greater environmental and global ideas. He has chosen to use the element of water, and his inspiration as an artist comes from everyday life. After reading his experience around the world, he has develop his artworks with a combination of cultures, people and their attitudes to life in relation to the surrounding earth.
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Gussie
3/20/2013 11:58:41 am
I really like his work because it is about contemporary problems and confronts them in a beautiful and thoughtful way. His pieces seem to all have something to do with the wya humans impact the environment and how water plays a role in our lives. My favorite piece of his is the one with the plastic bags filled with water because it is really beautiful and eye-catching but makes a statement about acid rain. I like how you can only see from up close what the piece is really made of. I would like to ask him how he came up with the mediums of bottles and plastic water bags for his ideas of water pollution.
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Charlotte
3/21/2013 10:40:59 am
It seems to me that Eke is playing with the idea of sustenance versus sustainability. The titles of his works reflect this, "Bottled Life" in particular. Referencing life in the title draws attention to the fact that water is imperative to life; we simply can't do without it. There is certainly some irony in his work, because of the decidedly unsustainable medium of plastic bottles. The combination of these two ideas makes a really rich meaning for his work. One thing I'm curious about is if it's difficult to engineer some of his pieces - specifically the aerial-hanging ones. I wonder if he made any mistakes that ended up in a very damp floor until he figured out his final product!
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Sofia Doerfer
3/21/2013 11:50:46 am
I think that his work is over the idea of humanity. I think he likes to make everyday hero's into people who are seen. That brings me to the piece that really stood out to me of his. The piece where he plastered pictures of everyday people in a town/city that aren't famous or well known, but he feels deserves recognition. I thought that piece was beautiful and very well thought out. If i were to ask him one question i would ask him is how he comes up with such large ideas for his work and how he takes an idea he likes and the thought process of it all, or what goes though his mind when creating these huge pieces of art.
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Julia Chianese
3/21/2013 12:35:08 pm
1. Bright explores the idea of environmental problems he has faced or ones that he has a passion to present to the world. He creates large creative pieces of artwork in order to show people around the globe the problems of pollution and other environmental issues.
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Tristin
3/21/2013 09:47:58 pm
I looked through lots of Bright's work yesterday, and I was amazed that he could make something so beautiful out of things like bags of water and water bottles. His art reflects his ideas around the environment. He creates art which creates questions around some of the environmental issues such as acid rain but creates aesthetically beautiful art at the same time.One work that I saw was a sculpture of water bottles in a mosaic pattern. From afar, this work looked like a beautiful mosaic made of glass or pottery, but up close you can see that it was made from plastic drink bottles. This work showed all of the plastic bottles that we just throw aside and pollute the world with, but then he created them into a beautiful work of art. A question I would ask Mr. Ugochukwu would be: What was it like to have to start over and over again to create a series of art work? What was it like to have your ideas shot down?
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Hayley
3/21/2013 11:18:52 pm
His art is about water and the effects that pollution can have on water. He had an experience with acid rain and it made him realize that his country was not taking care of the water, and it became harmful. I think his artwork is very peaceful looking, and its interesting when you realize what the artwork is about. I really like the work Bottled Life, and I wasn't sure but it looked like someone was crawling through. To mr it seemed sufficating a little bit, water is a really important thing to live, and some countries have a harder time getting water and others have to drink polluted or dirty water. Even in the US with fracking, it damages the water so much that it becomes toxic and completely unuseable. So to me Bottled Life shows how we are surrounded by water and how necessary it is for life, but a struggle of having clean water.
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Nikki Wong
3/22/2013 10:14:05 am
1) Seeing Bright Ugochukwu Eke's work I think he deals mainly with Environment, natural resources and other objects. He not just only focuses on the environmental problems in Nigeria but also through out the world.
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3/22/2013 01:21:15 pm
Bright Ugochukwu Eke seems to be exploring humanity's destruction of the environment, specifically how humans and corporations affect water. One of Bright's works that stood out to me was the suspension of several bags of water, touching on the idea of acid rain. I find the material very interesting and unlike anything I've ever seen. This work not only captures the beauty of nature but also ties into a bigger idea of humanity's impact on the environment. To me, the pure water held within man-made plastic bags represents how the world has become so processed and corporation-dominated that even the most natural and pure substance, water, is in humanity's control. The still, man-made imitation of rain provides a contrast with the natural life of water. The bags are also trapping and almost concealing something that was once free, possibly symbolizing how corporations have turned water supplies impure through domination. I think that all of Bright's pieces are quite beautiful in both product and message. I would like to learn more about the physical construction of his pieces. We were told in class that he enlists help in building the massive works and I would like to know how much creative control he gives the constructors. Does he give detailed instructions with a specific end product in mind or leave room for change as it's being built? I look forward to looking at more of his pieces and hopefully get to see some in person one day.
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Sam Cook
3/28/2013 10:32:41 am
(It's probably too late to do this, but it's worth a try.) The ideas and issues that Bright focuses on in his work, I think, are issues with the environment and availability and purity of water -- I think he's dancing around the issue of humans restricting their own access to clean water. I think he explores these ideas through his use of plastic bottles and plastic bags, suspending the water in the air, etc. At this point I don't really have any questions.
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Amelia Allore
4/9/2013 06:31:25 am
Bright Ugochukwu Eke explores issues in his art such as the environment, our impact on it, and how its deterioration affects our relationships between each other. He focuses on boundaries, as well: the ones we create that divide each other, and the ones we create that remove ourselves from nature. Many of his pieces show people being separated from their surroundings or enclosed within walls of plastic, showing how we are literally and figuratively being expelled from our natural environment the more we pollute it.
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