The Art Department is now organizing the opportunity for Personal, Group, and Class shows in our 2-D Display Case in the Art Wing of Kish.
You may sing up next to display case to schedule your Kish Art Show of:
Photography, Prints, Drawings, Paintings, Collages, Mixed-Medias, and other 2D artwork.
Getting as many people to see your art is one of the main reasons we make art!
Our first show is already on exhibit, so check it out, and be sure to leave a comment and sign the guest book. Receptions are up to the artist(s) involved.
P.S. Check out the show of Charles Gneich's Acrylic Portrait paintings in the Kish Art Gallery. Large and interesting work.
Oct 6, 2008
Interview with Kish comic artist, Andy Hongisto.
In his spare time, Andy "Checkmark" Hongisto, Kishwaukee College art student and cartoonist for the Kaleidoscope (Kish's School Paper), also writes and draws his own online graphic comic called, "Drifter". Marking the 3rd anniversary of his comic, "Drifter," local filmmaker Joel Zaruba and character actor "Chester" conducts a fun and informative interview with Andy about his comic. Check it out:
To see more of Andy's comic, click HERE.
Oct 4, 2008
Mattew Ritchie collaborates with Archictect Benjamin Aranda to create artwork
An interesting interview of architect Benjamin Aranda, discussing his contribution to contemporary artist Matthew Ritchie’s anti-pavillion project The Morning Line (2008). In today's times, Artists working in non-traditional ways often collaborate with engineers, scientists, doctors, writers, designers, architects, etc. to achieve their artistic goals. You can read more about Ritchie's artwork, (HERE).
On Matthew Ritchie’s The Evening Line project at the Bienniale Architecture in Venice:
It’s not just about architecture here in Venice. Matthew Ritchie is an artist who recreates the universe as art with paper, lights and installation. For the Biennale he has collaborated with Aranda/Lasch and Daniel Bosia/Arup AGU to create a huge installation made up of fractals and site specific designs.
New Art Exhibit at Kishwaukee Art Gallery
A Message from Gallery Director Michelle Erickson:I'd like to welcome you all to the KC Art Gallery's October exhibit, "Emerging from Darkness" paintings by Chicago artist, Charles Gniech. This show will be on display October 6 - 31, 2008. The Artist's reception will be Tuesday, October 7 from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Mr. Gniech will begin his gallery talk at 11:30. Please join me in welcoming this very talented artist to our campus. Be well, Michelle. 
"The Artist Wonders, Acrylic on Canvas, 2003."
Installation Art, Art and Money, and Plácido Domingo
Artists curious about installation art should check out this slideshow of recent sculptural installation art by Tara Donovan by clicking (HERE).
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She has the ability to "transform huge quantities of prosaic manufactured materials — Styrofoam cups, pencils, tar paper — into sculptural installations that suggest the wonders of nature." Really cool stuff, and here is just a hint of what to expect (made out of styrofoam cups).
For a strange article about painter/filmmaker Julian Schnabel getting ready to paint famous Mexican tenor, Plácido Domingo, check out this article here. He talks about his process approaching a subject and a painting in brief, and what inspires him. He is the humble painter who once said, “I’m the closest you’ll get to Picasso in this life.”
(HERE) is an interesting article about the artist Damien Hirst. He is an artist who likes attention and making waves (famous for suspending a dead shark in a plexi-glass box as art). The art market typically works by artists showing their work through galleries, and getting a commission from sales at these shows. Eventually, some art-buyers sell their art investment at art auction houses, often at a profit. Hirst recently decided to bypass the art gallery establishment (galleries) and go directly to Soethby's Art Auction.
Gallerists are not pleased. Its a novel idea, but I see a trend today where art is treated more as business and less as passion by artists, dealers, critics, buyers, and historians. Perhaps it is a product of our times.
Take a look at the (Jeff Koons) show that the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago just had. It was filled with shiny and beautiful sculptures, paintings, and photographs, and probably most of them painted and cast by his assistants. Yes, I do believe Koons directed the assistants, and developed the ideas and maybe this is a product of conceptual art. However, in conceptual art, the idea is more important than the product.
(Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson and Soap Bubbles, 1988.)
Usually that means, we spend more time admiring the idea, because the product is not necessarily aesthetic. In Koons situation, there is bling, shine, and gloss. I think we are attracted to the product. It makes the art of painting and sculpting feel more like skilled labor than a creative act in the hands of Kitsch-Master, Jeff Koons (c).
Are we to feel glad for the artists who are now making a killing in money from their art,with artists like Takashi Murakami collaborating on Album Covers for Kanye West, and designing purses for Louis Vuitton, or should we be concerned that many of the art stars are role-models for taking a more materialistic approach to art and its purpose?
I guess that this is a question for future artists and dealers and appreciators to decide.
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