MODULAR22 Artist Profile - Jacque Liu

Website:

www.jacqueliu.com

 

Favorite Color:

Any color that has been muted

 

Where were you born/raised:

Born in Taipei, Taiwan; raised in St. Louis, MO

Education:

BFA, English Minor, Alfred University; MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art

Current obsessions (art, design, music, movies, whatever, etcetera):

art, community, rigor, imagination, innovation, material, exhibitions, artist collectives

 

22 likes to focus on the overlap between art and design. Do you consider yourself an artist or designer?

Yes.

 

MODULAR22 Artist Profile - Sarah Kate Burgess

Website: 

www.adorneveryday.com

 

Favorite Color:

indigo

Where were you born/raised:

Newburyport Massachusetts

Education:

UMass Dartmouth and Cranbrook Academy of Art

 

Describe your work in 140 characters or less:

I collect objects, deconstruct them, and reassemble them into wearable and non-wearable objects that reflect upon the body.

 

Current obsessions (art, design, music, movies, whatever, etcetera):

bundt cakes

Favorite piece/project you’ve done:

My most favorite is what I am working on now, but it's not done yet! So here is an image from my last series, entitled 'HairMash'

What is your least favorite question/comment about your work and how do you respond?

'Wow! You are sooooo creative, I wish I could do that, but I can't even draw a stick figure.' It is a misconception that all artists can draw, or that creativity is only found in the arts, we all have bursts of creativity it just finds different outlets.

22 likes to focus on the overlap between art and design. Do you consider yourself an artist or designer?

I consider myself an artist, designer, craftsperson!

Tell us about the piece(s) you created for MODULAR22: 

I tried to make an image that confused. By placing 'real' chain on fabric printed chain, I was hoping to raise questions about what is 'real' and 'true' and also how we assign value.

 

MODULAR22 Artist Profile - Charlie DeLeonardis Jr.

 

 

Website:

charliedeleonardis.com

Favorite Color: 

purple

Where were you born/raised:

Raised in Brookfield IL

 

Education:

ISU & Concordia

 

Describe your work in 140 characters or less: 

Studying, thinking and observing. 

 

Current obsessions (art, design, music, movies, whatever, etcetera): 

The latest Ninja Turtle cartoon is not bad.
 

Favorite piece/project you’ve done: 

One of my favorites is titled: Corn, mixed media on cardboard, Summer 2012, 11 x 8.5 inches   

 

What is your least favorite question/comment about your work and how do you respond? 
All questions are fun!

22 likes to focus on the overlap between art and design. Do you consider yourself an artist or designer?  

...Mix-media journalist. 

Tell us about the piece(s) you created for MODULAR22:

The pieces I submitted for MODULAR22 is in response to a repetitive symbol I've drawn for about seven years. I wanted to share this repetitive symbol and this show was an avenue to do so. The symbol so far is related to mutability. The ability to grow and evolve. As the years go on, I've noticed the symbol has endured changes, which is the point of drawing it in the first place. I have a file of just about everyone I've ever drawn and seeing the changes in the symbol is fun and that's good enough for me.

Anything else you would like to share with us?
LOCAL ART ROCKS.

 

MODULAR22 Artist Profile - Christopher Santoso

Website:
christophersantoso.com

Favorite Color:
Pantone Reflex Blue
Pantone 804

Where were you born/raised:
Born in La Crosse WI, 1989
Minneapolis, MN, 1990-1998,
La Crosse WI, 1998 to 2007

As you can tell by the migrational pattern,
I've lived in the midwest my entire life.

Education:
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Describe your work in 140 characters or less:
For the most part, I leave that up to the viewers and the clients,
but whatever I'm influenced by, at the time, addresses the vernacular of my work.

Current obsessions (art, design, music, movies, whatever, etcetera):
Ghetto House, Juke, Footwork, Sacred Bones Records, No-Wave,
The Future, Ableton Live, Arabic Culture, HelloMe, Open Source Publishing,
Base Design, Piet Zwart, Cults of America, Wilfred. Punk, Post-Punk, Black Metal,
Lo-fi Recording, Hamilton Morris, Psychedelic Culture, Rick Valicenti's theory of Human Presence (now and forever)

22 likes to focus on the overlap between art and design. Do you consider yourself an artist or designer?
Thats a great question. Since the personal practice of designers has recently become more focused on self production, it's been able to blur the so-called line between art and design. However, in this case I find myself conflicted between the two titles,
and whether both apply to me. I would like to consider what I create as both art and design, but I actively engage in various other creative outlets, such as music, curating, and writing. In my case, I'd like to think adhering to a these titles are irrelevant.

All around, I would generally consider myself a creative problem solver. I make things to build upon an internal need or convey someone else's message, or to improve on my own practice, or to improve as a person. Even so, if people were to ask me the about the context of specific projects, then I would address my pieces as design or art, given it's appropriate application.

Personally speaking, if what I create something to communicate a message clearly (by clearly, I don't necessarily mean modern and sleek) then its design.  If what I create is begotten to express something that only I understand, then it's art. Of course, there will always be that overlap. :)

Tell us about the piece(s) you created for MODULAR22:
My piece represents a slew of processes and ideas that I've been toying with for quite some time. I wanted to create something that represented and explored my eastern ethnic roots. I'm half Indonesian (with some chinese and dutch in the mix), and with that being said, I'm very far removed from my extend family in Indonesia. What's interesting about
Indonesia is that language is represented in Roman Script, yet the country has the largest Muslim population in the world and that demographic uses a distinct form of Arabic writing.

This piece was mean't to not only derive understanding about myself, but developed alongside to shed light on the current status of Muslim xenophobia in this country that is inundated by the American Mass media.

MODULAR22 Artist Profile - Kevin Paolozzi

 

 

Website:

http://kevinpaolozzi.com

 

Favorite Color:

Red

 

Where were you born/raised:

Niagara Falls, Canada

Education:

McMaster University / York University / Cooper Union / Cranbrook Academy of Art

 

Describe your work in 140 characters or less:

Post-post-late modernism

Current obsessions:

Type design / revisiting my old iTunes playlists

Favorite piece:

 

Least favorite criticism/response:

"The 90's are over." Response: "For now."

 

Art/design?:

75% Graphic designer, 25% artist.

 

Piece in this show:

Explores a new process of manipulating preexisting graphic software with type design while conceptually focusing on the notion of "absolute truth" through visual media.

 

MODULAR22 Artist Profile - Nicole Killian

Website:
http://www.nylondip.com

Favorite Color:
Bubblegum Pink

Where were you born/raised:
on AOL/internet, on parents' Windows 95 computer (in Buffalo New York)

Education:
Cranbrook Academy of Art (MFA), Rochester Institute of Technology (BFA)

Describe your work in 140 characters or less:
My work explores mobile messaging, youth culture, worship, & the internets thru screens, images & objects. Purity, Perfection & Perversity.

Current obsessions (art, design, music, movies, whatever, etcetera):
crazy erasers, Jeremy Scott, Christpher Kane, Pretty Little Liars, zines, the current wave of feminism.

Favorite piece/project you’ve done:
http://music-for-sleeping-children.tumblr.com

What is your least favorite question/comment about your work and how do you respond?
"So you're a designer, but you make art too?"

22 likes to focus on the overlap between art and design. Do you consider yourself an artist or designer?
I'm comfortable with either word.

Tell us about the piece(s) you created for MODULAR22:
My piece for MODULAR22 is revelling in the digital structures I interact with on a daily basis: my desktop and Stickies. I like to imagine these as rooms and objects in a lush physical space with depth. This work is exploring the conversation of design being a transparent vessel for information. In this case, the process is transparent (screenshots, image warping), but the communication may not be all the time.

Anything else you would like to share with us?
DON'T BE AFRAID OF POP MUSIC

MODULAR22 Artist Profile - Matthew Coglianese

Website:
www.thepigshark.com

Favorite Color:
black

Where were you born/raised:
Chicago (south side)

Education:
Bachelors in Computer Graphic Design, Lewis University, 2004

Describe your work in 140 characters or less:
The focus of my work relies heavily on my photography which is then digitally manipulated to ultimately create that “final” image. I have created a lot of different types of art, yet I find that when I am altering my photographs and manipulating visual truths, that I enjoy viewing these works the most.

Current obsessions:
Mars Volta, hand stands, borderlands 2, bbq pork chop sandwiches, craft beer, and zerberts

Favorite piece/project you’ve done:

This is a newer piece from a series I have started working on. It is also my favorite piece that I have done in 2012. Series is Titled “UFO”

What is your least favorite question/comment about your work and how do you respond?
“How did you do that ?” and “How did you come up with that idea ?” are questions that make me cringe just a little bit internally. Aside from slipping on the toilet seat and hitting his head how did DOC really come up with the idea of the Flux Capicator ?

22 likes to focus on the overlap between art and design. Do you consider yourself an artist or designer?
I would consider myself more of a designer, as my foundation in art was half built upon an interest in architecture. Although I left that part of my life behind, those skills never completely disappeared and are now carried through in my day job as a designer for an awning company. For my personal work I just happen to bring my designs to life in a creative and artistic manner. A lot of my design is conceptualized and exists in the planning stages of my ideas and is further built upon as I go through a project from beginning to end. In the broadest sense of the words, I simply make art by designing.

Tell us about the piece(s) you created for MODULAR22:
The pieces I created for Modular 22 were from photographs that I digitally manipulated to create a visually evocative image that may be strange in subject and appearance to some. Example 1: “An eagles head on a old mans body sitting in a chair in an abandoned run down decrepit building” Example 2: “An arm coming through (from the inside) a broken T.V. screen that is sitting on a raggedy couch in an abandoned church” Example 3: people in a field with war planes over head that have dropped bombs, the bombs being mid-flight capturing the moment before these people are about to perish.

 

Anything else you would like to share with us?
As far as what I have planned for 2013. I am working on putting together a rather ambitious project to do a large scale photo shoot capturing as many people as I can find simultaneously doing a hand stand. If I can get 400 people doing this It will be a new Guiness World Record.

For more information on this project or interested in being a part of it, please contact me at thepigshark@gmail.com and check out my website www.thepigshark.com