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Some photographs of my pre-thesis exhibition in action, thanks to Mike Lowell. I will put a more accurate and complete description up later, on my sister site http://art.waynemadsen.com, as well as posting my entire ATC presentation.]]> wayne album Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:35:32 -0600 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/13258 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/13258
It is finally summer time and what that means here is time to destroy paintings. We have a second bedroom full of works of art that will either go one of two places: to your house or to the fire. Literally. So, I have compiled a gallery online of all the works of art on death row along with their sizes and materials. Please take this opportunity to look through and claim anything you want. We can talk about exchanging/pricing details once I hear from you about which ones you want. Obviously this is a limited time thing. Please contact me at wayne(at)waynemadsen.com. Thanks.]]> wayne album Wed, 23 May 2007 19:47:22 -0500 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/9608 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/9608
These are images from a show in the White Gallery. I worked with six other artists in collecting all the receipts from every transaction we made. This show was an analysis of that experiment and the resulting data. Artist Statement: The process of a transaction, in America, usually involves the transfer of currency for goods or services. These transactions are then logged in small pieces of paper called receipts. Most receipts come with specific data printed on them, commonly including the value of the goods transferred and the time and location where these goods exchanged hands. More often than not, a receipt will include sensitive data of the two parties involved. The process of collecting receipts results in a system of data which can be mined for information about the transactions taking place. Often economic analysts will collect immeasurable amounts of data from a producer to evaluate the demographics of spending within a company. Although most people no longer collect receipts in an age of digital monetary transactions, for every physical transfer of goods or services for money, a receipt is still provided as proof of that transaction. It is this proof which I have collected during the past three months from six consenting artists. This installation space is documentation of the artwork of collecting receipts and mining the data from these receipts in order to show the spending trends of the six artists involved. Through this collection, I am showing a system of data and order made from six separate expenditures. Systems are created from labels and the organization of data. As an archivist, I searched through the data and have investigated our spending habits through an analysis of this benign object, the receipt. These receipts mark our experience within a currency economy. As artist we have spent the past several months collecting the receipts in this room.]]> wayne album Sun, 17 Dec 2006 20:28:10 -0600 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/9318 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/9318
I had a show in Gallery III on campus during the Thanksgiving week. This displays the painting work I did this semester, along with some previous stuff I didn't include in my graduate application portfolio. This was supposed to be a "get to know professors and expose my work to professors." Artist Statement: Jacques Derrida writes that a culture’s philosophy can be rooted in the linguistic structure of that culture. I started these works as a study on language and the deconstructionist approach to understanding literary theory. As I have learned more about art history, I developed a distaste for the separation between public understanding of art and art practice/theory. By my view, the specialization of art theory has distanced the public from understanding art, very similar to other disciplines which have their internal set of symbols, communication and iconography. Many of the symbols in this body of work are taken from various disciplines, which have meaning within those disciplines. I then began to appropriate the “cute” imagery which my generation grew up with representing our philosophical basis. These images bother me. I feel like these cuddly and cutesy characters are polluting our visual experience and I am terrified by it. I view these pieces as an addition to the kitsch dialogue in fine art. My compositions are intuitively created from images which either reflect or were appropriated from the lexicon of digital “street culture.” I am not trying to be a part of that culture, but be aware of how this culture affects us.]]> wayne album Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:18:43 -0600 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/9213 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/9213
So, I haven't posted any work lately on the blog, because most of my work in the past 8 months haven't been "image" or "object" based work. But since I was admitted to the 2D graduate program, I've been trying to be good and paint some "objects." ]]> wayne album Mon, 06 Nov 2006 00:30:18 -0600 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/6112 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/6112
I wanted to make a time-based project which would evolve visually and functionally. When we were living in Seattle, we went to a sculpture garden where an artist had built a "wall" of twine on a tree and over time the moisture had caused the taught twine to loose its tensile strength and sag. I felt that this was an interesting transition from a form that resembled geometric wire to a organic hair; I wanted to use a similar concept but instead of integrating it with another organic form, to use a geometric cold form. So I built a 5 pointed shape our of steel, but the shape is only loosely connected. Without the tensile strength of the twine, it will fall apart. Over time, I will photograph this piece as it changes and morphs and eventually falls apart. Special thanks to our friends Jayson and Felicia for letting us put this up in their backyard.]]> wayne album Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:33:27 -0500 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/5954 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/5954 ]]> wayne album Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:22:06 -0500 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/5974 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/5974
This is a partial listing of my work that I painted over the summer while living in Seattle. These paintings are now in the process of being reworked, so all these pieces are being shown unfinished/in-the-process of being completed. As I work on them, I will post pictures of what they look like now.]]> wayne album Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:17:47 -0500 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/6153 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/6153
Another installment of work on my robot/symbol paintings. This is probably the last group of pictures I'll take of the paintings in progress. Most of them are finished now, so maybe I'll post them on my portfolio page. Hopefully this group of work is strong enough to get me into a good MFA program. Sorry for the poor quality, but I don't want people stealing my images! ;)]]> wayne album Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:13:02 -0500 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/6085 http://www.waynemadsen.com/drupal/gallery/6085
This is the third stage in this series of paintings. Some new paintings. Karl let me borrow his projector and I used some of the 3D characters I built in Swift 3D. I also introduced some images from airline safety cards. I think those images get more to the root of where these ideas came from.]]> wayne album Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:12:18 -0500