Sally's Installation Arts

His paintings showed his confrontation of the way that society accept queerness. He said he didn’t provide a clear solution to achieve utopia, but question the ideal of heroes. When I saw his presentation, those paintings were so attractive for me, especially the “Cruel” and the “Summer”. He put blue and red flowers’ painting together, and establish a contrast beautiful.   Except his aesthetic of painting, the back of his paintings and arts are meaningful and understandable. His figurative oil paintings explore how the often-disparaged forms of Americana and heartland kitsch can be recharged as instruments through which to generate and explore queer identities. In his series “Toxic Masculinity”, it is a clear Americana style and he used superheroes’ symbol on them, which is muscles and maybe tight pants. A lot of muscles, that must be the symbol for the Americana superhero style that he wanted to show us. And all the faces are the celebrities’. That also presents the relationship b...

Alexandra Bell is an artist that working with news and political issues. She did comments on the newspaper and wrote counter-narratives words. Her works are about the racial prejudice of communities of color by the American news media. The red annotations are the comments she wrote and had a strong contrast between the newspaper and the comments. Red is a color that means “death” “hot” “love” and so one. She used red here to show her disagreement and resistance to those racial prejudice. Some “objectivity” in the news may not the truly objectivity. So, she put her comments to against those “objectivity”. It might receive some disagree discourse by both the government and the public. There was a question that does her works are because of her friends and family or totally by herself. She said, “just me”. Because her friends and family don’t appreciate her works, and they sometimes differ from what she’s thinking. So, she said, “just do your own work”. This reflects some truth that altho...

The artist I am presenting is Ai Weiwei from China. His installation art is very closely related to his family background. I think it is his upbringing that has shaped all of his current artistic ideas and thoughts. He grew up in Xinjiang because his father was exiled there. So the family had to live underground, and they had to make all the furniture by themselves. This gave him the foundation for his subsequent artistic career. His ideology can be said to be basically the opposite of the Chinese government. So that's why he was monitored and talked to by the Chinese government. The same is the reason why he came to live in the United States afterwards. There are a lot of political factors in this, and it's very complicated. Although I don't want to mention it, I have to say that his artwork and politics are also closely related. Like this Sunflower Seeds, there must be some political factors behind him that can be interpreted. He once said, "you can have your own int...

Many times people's memories of their childhood can become part of their dreams. The beautiful images of childhood will become dreams when we grow up. At least that's how it is for me. So, when I saw the dream-making installation art, I was fascinated. One of the important forms of ins tallation art is to simulate or try to create a human "dream world", so when Jamie said we could do the theme of "Childhood Simulation", the first thing I wanted to do was I wanted to simulate a childhood dream. So, what I was thinking was, Jamie has an old TV set. I wanted to create a dream-like environment. When visitors watch the TV, it can create a feeling of childhood or a dream world. But the difficult part for me to achieve this is that everyone's childhood is different. So I created an environment that doesn't necessarily give the visitor the feeling of childhood or a dream world. So I'm thinking that this is actually more like a kind of display/confession/...

“The viewer is a participant.”(Julie, 35)   This is my first time to make such installation arts exhibition. It is so funny that also can help me to broaden my mind.     At first, I don’t know how I can do for our installation arts but only having my own idea of the materials that I took. So, first I just walked around and saw what materials I can use or what installation I can help to do with. After I walked into the inside area, Jamie and I saw Johnie’s words, “Nothing for Sale”. And then she had an idea that put her electronic devices’ boxes under this sign. That makes a lot of interesting meaning for this boxes and the words. So, I had an idea suddenly that I can put my umbrella beside these installation. I can put the umbrella upside down and pour all the “trash” into the umbrella. It also can be shown as “nothing for sale”. Then, Jamie had an idea that she can draw a girl with T-shirt, and we can use the rest of the photographs to make a “photo shirt” for her. Then,...