Oliver Herring

Oliver Herring (born 1964 in Heidelberg, Germany) is an experimental artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His works include knitting Mylar, participatory performances, styrofoam photo sculptures and video.

Photo sculpture

For the Styrofoam Photo sculpture, Herring starts with a polystyrene base and pastes thousands of cut up photographs to the base. “Gloria,” one of his most famous sculptures, is of a girl leaning against a wall in a colorful flower dress holding her necklace. Her

ring took pictures from every angle of her and he cut and pastes them on the base to form the sculpture.

Dash Snow

Dash Snow

Richard Kern

Richard Kern

Zhou Fan Art

"Zhou Fan is a rising star in the Chinese art scene – he is a young, yet extremely creative, Chinese contemporary artist."(Link)
Zhou Fan's art is just amazing to me. His paintings are very detailed and live from their colorfulness. I love his ideas of motives and the Japanese style you can find in them even though he is only 1/4 Japanese.
Interesting is also that
"Zhou Fan has been very inspired by his childhood. While the artist has always had a strong fascination for Jellyfish, Zhou’s “Love of Jellyfish” series of paintings is based on dreams that he had as a young boy of many jellyfish floating in the sky, some of which fell to the ground on parachutes and became mushrooms. These dreams had a strong impact on the artist, and he remembers them vividly. The artist explains, “Somehow I feel that it is easier to focus on dreams than reality”. According to psychologists, our daily fantasies and dreams are actually extensions and expansion of our reality."




































For me personally, the images of the fat boy inspire me the most. I am fed up with the drinking, smoking and drug culture of these days and I always wanted to show my criticism in paintings. I had this idea in my head for a few days now and I was thinking of how can I express my criticism in a pictorial way. I think that the boy shoving tons of pills down his throat, being way obese and even crying in other paintings show a dark side of addiction and overdoing. It also shows how ugly one can become in an addictive circle like that and how helpless one is when one's body and soul just function with "helpers". Then the fun stops and reality strikes back. Maybe that was not the intention of the artist but that is what I see in these paintings. I am trying to find a way which makes me able to express my thoughts on "drugs, partying, smoking and drinking to the max" in a visual way. I think that Zhou Fan's Paintings are an inspiration for this journey.

WEBSITE OF THE ARTIST

What shall I do?

Ich werde mal auf Deutsch schreiben, weil ich glaube, dass mein Gedankenfluss dann besser laeuft.
In meiner jetzigen Unit soll ich also viel recherschieren und am letzten Tag vor den Ferien einen Entwurf zur Study Proposel haben. Ich glaube es war ein anderes Wort, aber ich weiß, was ich meine.
Also was soll ich recheschieren? Ich habe so eben gelesen, dass man mit diesem Proposal seinen Pathway bestimmt. Ich glaube, dass man danach den nicht mehr wechseln kann. Nun bin ich also in einem Dilemma, da ich gerne Bilder malen und Animationen kreieren moechte. Diese beiden Taetigkeiten gehoeren aber zu zwei verschiedenen Pathways, 2D und 4D. Nun weiss ich nicht, was ich die restlichen 4 Jahre lieber nachgehen moechte.
Zumal habe ich auch noch nicht eine konkrete Idee fuer das jetzige Projekt. Ich dachte an intime Momente, die man zu Hause hat und keiner von einem kennt. Ich will mich dabei aber nicht auf Sex beziehen, sondern auf andere Momente, die einem Menschen unbeschwert und frei zeigen.
So denke ich an Bilder von Nacktfoenen, von schlafend im Bett liegend oder von Fussnaegel schneidend und so weiter.
Meine andere Idee ist, eine Animation zu kreieren, welche verspielt und naiv daher kommt. Inspiriert von dem Songtext von dem Lied von Wir Sind Helden names Labyrinth.
Ich hoffe, ich werde mich entscheiden koennen.

Good Morning

The photographer Meredith Andrew took a series of pictures of people who just woke up. Tired, without make up and unwashed. The portraits remembered me of my project, idea, I want to start. I am searching for private moments in every one's life. Moments you don't really want anybody to see, moments regarded as ugly and embarrassing. I think these portraits of Meredith Andrew have a similar idea in them.

I found another great Blog

So I was just browsing through the Junction blog again and found on there a favorite list. I didn't make it to look at all the links yet, but I like this blog called Loom. I am going to check this one out from time to time.