Wendy Wahl

Wendy Wahl is an installation artist, designer, and educator of art. She received her BA in Art at California State University, and her MAE in Textile Art from Rhode Island School of Design. She is apart of multiple exhibitions both in the US and international. She has received numerous awards and has been mentioned in multiple publications.
From what I have seen of Wahl's art she does a lot of paper and textile art. I like her art because I enjoy the simple and yet intricate design of her pieces. She has a lot of paper towers and columns. I feel like it's a type of installation art that can go anywhere and look like a piece of art of quality.
These are one of the column-like paper installation pieces that I really enjoy. I feel like each of the pieces fit together really nicely and the number of arches isn't too overwhelming.







I'm a little on the fence about whether I like this piece or not. There is nothing that I don't like about it. In terms of composition, it's very nice, it's balanced. I think I just find it a little boring. I feel like there isn't anything that is really drawing me in, and the color kind of adds to that.



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http://wendywahl.com/news.html
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Gabriel Dawe

Gabriel Dawe is an installation artists working mostly in site specific work. He is originally from Mexico, which provides influence for his work. He received his MFA from the University of Texas in Dallas. He has been featured in many publications and has been exhibited in the various locations throughout North America and the UK.
In reading about his work, it was stated that his work centered around fashion and architecture, which made a lot of sense to me since he had a lot of textile in his work. I also found this distinction of his work relevant because the site specific nature of his work is very much based around indoor architecture. Though the ore i read, it started talking about his art in relation to gender identity and Mexican masculinity, I didn't really understand his work in relation to that at all.




I found this piece to be another fantastic example of good installation art. It works so well and so purposefully with the location that it's in. In works with the light to make the colors more vibrant and noticeable. It also obviously works with the multiple levels that there are to work with which is another great and impressive aspect of this artist.











This doesn't even look like string to me anymore, I'm sure if it was more up close it would be more recognizable in that respect. It just completely looks like light to me. It looks like various colored lights beaming down on the the ground in thin sheets. I find it insanely impressive.







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http://www.gabrieldawe.com/bio.html
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Rune Guneriussen

Rune Guneriussen is a Norwegian installation artist working mostly with site specific installations. He works a lot with putting indoor items in nature and changing the surrounding area in doing so. He is also a photographer as well as an installation artist, often photographing his work as part of the piece. He studied at the  Surrey Institute of Art and Design. He is currently working in Norway.

I like Guneriussen's work because I like how much the installation changes the space that it is put into. I find that a lot of installation pieces disturb the environment more than they work with it, which is probably why I'm not a big fan of installation work in the first place. I've seen in a lot of his photographs that he uses lamps, chairs, books, and things like that and works them around the landscape to make it almost seem like it's supposed to be there, rather than it just being put there.

I like this work a lot. I feel like it has a really nice flow of the lamps along the trees. He seemed to really just pick those trees specifically and string the lamps accordingly. He really is a great site specific artists. 

This is another one of his pieces that I found to be a great example of how well he works with the landscape. He remind me of Andy Goldsworthy in the way that he works with the landscape like he does. The only real difference I see between them is just the materials that they use. Guneriussen uses materials that we use in everyday life and meticulously places them into the landscape, whereas Goldsworthy puts things that are already found in the environment and just rearranges them specifically in the environment they were found in.

Source:

http://www.runeguneriussen.no/bio.html 

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Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder is an installation artist who does site relate work. She received her MFA from Yale University and studied painting at the University of British Columbia. Her work has been shown in both the United State and Europe.
She is of the first artists to genre-bend in installation art, which has become a big part of art in the current culture. She has a mixture of installation and painting. Stockholder has a style in which she goes beyond her given space and extend outwards beyond the installation itself. I like the bright colors and bold style of her installation, though I do feel that there are some pieces that are a bit boring in their construction.


I like this piece mostly because of it's largeness and use of color. The points of the fabric seems to resemble a mountain range in my eyes. The items to the right of the image seem like a pile of rubble from the mountains. The light cast from the ceiling also plays nicely with the folds of the fabric.










This is one of her pieces that I find a bit boring. I find the layout to have a disconnect between the two sides. I do like the use of the varied colors. I can't get out of my mind that the part in front looks like legos.









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Sarah Sze

Sarah is an installation artist, working mostly with site specific work using everyday objects. She received her BA at Yale University and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She has been in the art world since 1991 and has received numerous awards and currently lives in New York city.

Sze's work consist of large scale installations that have an architectural, fragmented quality made of every day objects. Most of her work is site specific, working on and in buildings, parks, and various other areas. I really like her work because of it's quality of impossibility. Most of her work to me looks as though it shouldn't be able to stand on it's own. It is asymmetrical and very fragile looking. She used everyday objects like kitchen and office supplies, and the way in which she puts them together just seems as though they could fall apart at any second.

The piece to me seems like a fragmentation of the world. It's a spherical shape, like the earth, and it's just made up of the things that we use. There are lights illuminating specific areas of the piece. I can't really tell what those areas are specifically, but its looks like a more solid back piece that shines a reflection on the rest of the objects.





This is one of her site specific pieces that she has built on and around the US Pavilion. I appreciate how she worked around the building and really used the architecture to create her own architecture-like structure. I don't, however like the circular space on the ground. I feel like there is almost a disconnect between the two pieces. I don't feel like they are connecting and working well together.
Triple Point, 2013, U.S Pavilion in Venice








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 http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/sarah-sze
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