Rick Muto

http://rickmuto.com/special_projects.html

I went to Mr. Muto's open studio this weekend to see his painted paino which commission by Steinway & Sons. (<--- I want a Steinway pianoooo!!!! It's the king of piano for concert level performance)

This is the 4th piano he paints. The piano project is commission by the piano manufaturer and the piano will go to Shanghi, China, at Steinway's piano show room.

It's really amazing to see other people doing the same thing I do to the paino. But this guy is a muuuuuuuch more professional artist. He makes me fell my work is just a student work......

He got all the piano parts separately and put them together after completing painting. And he do "test paint" on the sample that Steinway offer to try out the material. He use gesso for the base, but since he is painting on a new piano from factory, there's no varnish on it. (And my piano is an old one so I got a lot problem on just gessoing.) The piano is painted by acrylic because of the concern on the finish varnish he want to use.

 His background on decorative art in furniture makes him successful. It looks like I still far from a prefessional artist.

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Seriously I don't want to show this video..... it's just too embarassing.......but since it's the requirement of the course...........
Anyway, this 30 secends video still take a few hours to edit because Final Cut Pro can't read this .avi file (should be able to, but it just say cannot open).
And I found another video editing software call "Videopad", which is a freeware. It has the basic editing tool and the most important of all, easy to find tools..........
The title for this video project? ....ummmmmmmm...... "Playing piano without piano"....?

The Deconstruction of a Painting

Joseph D. Tarantelli, The Deconstruction of a Painting, 2012, Video

Gehard Demetz

Hello All! This is some work by Gehard Demetz. He is an Italian sculptor who works mainly with wood and creates the most stunning images of these children. The unfinished quality to their clothing and softness of their hands and face I find to be particularly striking. While the allegoric value of certain iconography commands my attention as to the underlying message of the sculpture.

Gareth's Performance for PCP at Gallery r

Kimsooja on Art 21

 A Beggar Woman and A Homeless Woman 2000-2001 Kimsooja

 

Sewing into Walking 1994 Kimsooja

Click here for Kimsooja's website.

This is the dock for my show, although it is not complete yet. I still need to mount the field glasses to a pole and secure the pole to the dock. My concerns are that the integrity of the glasses is not altered. They are vintage and have a special meaning to me.