- What constraints does Tripp create for herself and why?
- What do these constraints generate?
Read this Art21 Blog Post about artist Selena Tripp, who works with self imposed restrictions. Her painting instructions could easily fit within our parameters for this project. Respond to these questions in your visual journal, and type a summary in a response below:
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Rebecca Leloudis
9/12/2011 08:30:58 am
Tripp has a distinct set of rules that she uses for each work, seemingly to combine painting-which she tried to avoid-with sculpture and photography, her more common media. She takes these constraints and makes traced self-portraits, which she then incorporates into a sculpture piece, which she then takes a picture of. It's a long process that has surprising results, with each piece varying from the next. Her constraints generate a kind of variety that she may not have been able to create otherwise.
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Jessica Ferreira
9/12/2011 12:04:45 pm
I just have to say that this artist,Selina Tripp, literally touches almost every base in art history. What she tried to avoid the most in her art process was using paint. She would take a one way mirror and trace the image of herself, while the camera would document the process. Then she would paint as an expressionist by using the paint that was left over resembling her emotions (the way her grandmother taught her and such as Van Gogh). It also seemed that the paints used to represent her in her painting were to be left up by chance (like Helen Frankenthaler). The final result was for her to glance at her self portrait and for her to try to discover what the painting conveyed In the end she'd assemble items that go along with the painting to tell a story and for it to serve a purpose. She also stated that she cared more about the process of her work by using the mirror since it captures everything she wants in her artwork (Pollock = process. The camera also documents the mistakes made while tracing herself because she tries to trace it obstruct it. When her work is done, she places it in a musical environment where she performs music as well. This causes the work to have even greater depth and meaning. It created a fleeting moment within the "nature of the performance" (such as the Impressionist period. It's a refreshing for the art work to have a different setting by placing it in the performance , as if it is herself interacting with the audience (relating to Joseph Beuys).
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Sarah Mitchell
9/12/2011 12:34:26 pm
Tripp uses set rules which she applies to herself. She forces herself to use paint, a medium she doesn't like to use. As well as film and sculpture all in one. She also constrains herself to painting herself, her reflection in a mirror. I believe she does this so that, in a way, she almost doesn't know what the end result will be like. Creating a more interesting piece. Doing this causes her works to vary greatly from one piece to the next; and although they share similar mediums and follow the same system, they are all totally individual.
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Caroline Coyle
9/12/2011 12:42:44 pm
In avoiding the use of paint as a medium, Tripp generates a process with a set of instructions that she must follow. Although these instructions are fixed, they are also instigators for creativity and inspiration. Instructions are often thought to be straightforward or limiting, but in this context, they take on a different purpose. The restraints Tripp places on herself force her to ponder how she can replace painting with something else, and creation develops more dimensions--it now possesses the idea of filling in an absence.
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Audrey Larson
9/12/2011 10:02:47 pm
Tripp's reluctance to use paint seems to be the key reason she drives herself to use it. In experimenting with a medium that she has been trying to avoid, she is creating a constraint that brings about very interesting results. Additionally, she creates a set of actual restraints as she paints. These result in an interesting combination of sculpture and painting.In some cases these final results are even disturbing. In using constraints, she is able to create something extremely original and unexpected. Her constraints open up possibilities for creativity and manipulation of the medium used.
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Erin Casey
9/13/2011 12:30:09 pm
Selina Trepp has a few restraints. She limits herself to paint although she tries to “avoid” it as well as sculpture and photography. She self portraits herself. But her restraints being a one way mirror and having herself use all of her left over paint. On the aspect of her using allll of the paint she has adds a factor of chance to her work. What if she has a color she doesn’t need anymore? How will she incorporate it in her work?
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