MATTHEW ROBBINS
Alumni
Thursday, September 20'
SASHA BARR
Illustrator
Tuesday, October 2
ELIZABETH CONDON
Painter
Thursday, October 11
FRANKLIN SIRMANS
Chief curator, LACMA
Tuesday, October 23
I went to Matthew Robbins and Elizabeth Condon
MATTHEW ROBBINS
Alumni-kinda
Thursday, September 20
NOTES: Matthew Robins-celebrity event designer
Lecture was titled: Hunting and Gathering
- suggests you learn to make
beautiful things.
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learn how to take things and create items from
that. . how do you talk about it, how do you make people believe you?
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He was exchange student in San Francisco art
institute. Finished at Cal State.
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has a Passion for color, pattern, telling story.
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art is a business you are selling something
-He Started his own business in
NY….inspired weddings, Martha helped him get to where he is.
Tip=
-Work with color, composition, and cohesive use of color,
find an inspiration. Look at form, color, texture. And Take advantage of the
industry
-Keep personal, stay curious, be authentic, make it meaning
full, don’t get lost in the center, be persistent, and create beauty.
-Have the skills, don’t say you cant –be able to deliver.
Do your best –if you cant do it know you wont be able to do
it latter
Just keep going back to doors keep knocking it’ll work ,
beauty moves people weather its happy or not.
-Prevent creative block- by borrowing from your vocabulary.
Just keep tweaking and add a dash off something. Keep looking.
-Have a varied portfolio-hone and sharpen the skills- first
three needs to blow you away. Have it speak about the way you are.
-Biggest challenges- balance sensitivity. know how to critic
and edit.
Try Visual diary…. Instead of sketch book, learn to log your
thoughts.
-Being able to help ppl figure out what they want- study
them and give them visual questions,
Class-inspiration- henry esterwood’s pushing, vita-dig deep,
fred-beauty of a line, remy paint better and do more, nona- encourage interest
in more than art.
Get some business knowledge.
5-6 yrs to even get on feet.
Thoughts-
I really enjoyed his lecture. It was short and to the point. He took it in a
different direction than most… instead of only talking about his work, he made
it beneficial to us by giving advice and talking to us about how he got to
where he is in his career.
And even when he spoke of his art it was broken down and the process
he went through was talked about instead of him just saying “this is blah and
represents blah”
ELIZABETH CONDON
Painter
Thursday, October 11
UCLA
AI Chicago,
1995-
dolls as seregate figures
Jericho raft of medusa is like family you see the worst
Light = color= line
Dolls- what is real what isn’t- why aren’t dolls real?
Get to know doll through paint, bring them to life by
painting them
I enjoy her Chinese inspired art more; you can really see
her influence from her residencies.
Thoughts:
This lecture feels soooo long. Her stuff is interesting, I
thinks its that’s there is just so much work she is showing, and she doesn’t
involve her audience so were just sitting here looking at a lot of the same
stuff over and over. Information overload!
She beings with imagery of creepy dolls, then she goes to her
work that’s inspired by her travels., which I enjoyed more as I felt like they
were visually and technically stronger but then they were created later showing
shes grown as an artist
Some of her work:
