Gallery Wrapped Canvases and Masonite Panels

David Comstock 901-605-7096

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David Lynch-Alphabet

Alexandra Ranner

Art 21-Video Artist/Inspiration

Ann Hamilton http://video.pbs.org/video/1237561674

JOB

https://www.callforentry.org/index.php
the cafe

Shadows 2

Figure

Shadows 1

Timeline

Feb 2, tues- test shoots 2

Feb 9, tues-test shoots 3

Feb 16, tues first model shoot, painting 1 complete

Feb 23, tues first model edit

Mar 2,  tues, second model shoot, painting 2 complete

Mar 9, tues second model edit

Mar 16, tues more paintings complete, and edits

Mar 23, tues more paintings complete and edits

Mar 30, tues test run

April 6, tues test run 

April 13, installation

Testy 1

Notes

In the grand scheme of things I seem to have two different ideas that I need to experiment with and see what works, what doesn't, and can both work together. Here is a breakdown of an estimated time-line and further technicalities....

Things I am currently working out

-Hiring model(s)
-Appropriate location and setting for filming
-Camera Schedule
-Starting the paintings!

Krzysztof Wodiczko, Director of The Center for Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT animates architecture and public monuments by projecting stories and histories onto them. In this way, technology become an apparatus for projecting the self outward, for the collection of memory.

The Black Box from Dorian Carlos Sensi on Vimeo.

First Pitch

    This semester I am interested in studying the human figure. I intend to complete a body of figurative paintings that largely relies on demonstrating the figure ground relationship between the body and its relationship to the space it embodies. The paintings themselves will illustrate nude figures in a variety of postures, color schemes, and perspectives while overlapping film onto the canvas. The purpose of this project is to merge film layers onto two-dimensional work and document a process. The film overlay, which is to be projected onto the canvas, will construct a build up of layers acting as if they free the figure’s presence from the enclosed space of a rectangular picture frame.

During the execution of filming, I plan to document nude figure models and /or experiment with successfully capturing silhouettes and shadows on film. I will work with various lighting setups and conditions to capture both and then determine how adequately the film can be projected on top of a painting. For this process I will need 1 person to assist, plenty of lights, models, concise film editing, and access to a projector.  I plan to shoot as frequently as possible a single model or figure at a time and never having more than two simultaneously in the film. Depending on how large I decide the painting will be and how much space I am given for the senior show I would like to leave a portion of the figure incomplete so that the rest would be filled in with a projection of the footage. If I properly manage to shoot silhouettes of the figure, I intend to use the film as way to project these shadows on top of the work. The shadows will consist of the painter themselves (me) standing over the painted figure and demonstrating the action of making brushstrokes on the canvas while another silhouette of the model changes positions in a succession. The success of the projection will also depend on indoor lighting conditions during the BFA installation.

   I will need the following:

·            Camera equipment (camera and tripod) No sound equip needed.

·            Lighting kit, may need more than one, good lighting conditions

·           May need 1 crew member

·           Access to professional models/hired models

·           A projector
      
         I plan to shoot weeknights, or whenever a model is available