Brian Jungen is a Canadian artist known for his contemporary art, who currently is living and working in the North Okanagan of British Columbia. He creates sculptures out of a variety of materials that are considered everyday. Many of his sculptures take the form of traditional Aboriginal art forms, or resemble standard tools, and components of Aboriginal cultures. By combining everyday, very mainstream, materialistic, and superfluous, he is able to create and highlight the juxtaposition between the materialistic modern culture we currently experience, and its cohabitation with Aboriginal cultures. He has made things such as totems, and masks, out of sporting goods, such as golf balls, and has an installation in the National Gallery of Canada that is a whale created out of plastic lawn chairs.
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Hajra Waheed
Hajra Waheed is a Canadian artist from Montreal who works with various medias (from collage, to video, sound and sculpture) to explore issues around covert power, mass surveillance, cultural distortion, other other traumas faced by displaced subjects through mass migration. She uses extensive research and new accounts to prompt and support her work. She expresses her work in a variety of ways. For instance, since 2008 she has been working on an ongoing series called the Anouchian Passport Portrait Series. She created renderings, drawn in pencil and charcoal that mimics the automated movements of a printer, of men and women whose pictures were taken by an Armenia photographer, Antranik Anounchian. She also has done video installations, and other medias throughout her career.
http://hajrawaheed.com/works/
Artist Profiles
Here are various profiles of artists that we looked at in this course.
Our Favourite Inspirations
Every member of the Fuchsia Friends has found throughout our art class, that we each have something we prefer to work with artistically. These different things are our favourite things to find inspiration with, and to express in various forms of media.
Working on E&P in Class
In our second to last class the Fuchsia Friends worked together to find examples of different Elements and Principles of Design in various magazines and other forms of print.
Some of our Art Work through the Semester
MAKING OUR FUSCHIA COLLAGE
OUR OUTDOOR PIECE
SOME OF OUR CERAMICS
TEMPERA FRAMES
OUR CULTURAL TAPESTRY
OUR FUCHSIA FEATHERED FRIENDS – a directed drawing activity
WORKING WITH FABRICS