Friday 27 November 2015

Richard Prince

Richard Prince

Born 1949 in the Panama Canal Zone, now lives and works in Upstate New York. Most of Prince's work revolves around 're-photography' essentially photographing an existing image which relates to my re-appropriation of magazine images.
 
Richard Prince 'Fashion'

Richard Prince 'Fashion'
 My favourite two series' of his work are 'Fashion' and 'New portraits'. In particular 'New portraits' caught my attention a while ago due to all the uproar as he had used peoples images off of Instagram, these portraits are really fascinating as they show how our attitude about ourselves and how others perceive us has changed dramatically in the digital age. Now we all present these fake images of our seemingly perfect lives and almost idolise them, we wish our lives were as good as the pictures. Even though we all know the majority of images are fake we still wish our lives were like the other people we see living these fake-perfect lives.
Richard Prince 'New Portraits'

Richard Prince 'New Portraits'

Vikki Stevens is an emerging artist interested in many areas including body image, mental health and abstraction. Her latest series of work aims to show how images and perceptions of women are “put- together”/ manufactured, and how these images and perceptions affect how women feel about their own body image. Vikki’s ideas for her artwork are expressed in mediums such as paint, collage and sculptural objects, mostly incorporating repurposed images from magazines and found documents. Artists such as Tracey Emin and Hannah Hoch have a large influence on her work. Both the personal perspective and distorted images play a major part in creating pieces that discuss personal as well as cultural issues within mainly the western world/media sphere. Stevens is planning on developing her work into a more abstract sphere to investigate feelings that she has herself and how she can communicate them by using and developing abstract techniques, continuing with collage as a starting influence. Currently the materials and processes she has used in her past work and the work in development are having a large impact on how the work develops and the message behind the work is entirely open. Rather than having a stand out message Stevens is now moving towards a more indirect way of working, focusing more on feelings rather than statements. Current concerns within the work reflect how Stevens feels about herself in day-to-day life and how outside influences affect her and her work. More specifically Stevens is dealing with feelings of anxiety, panic attacks, depression and how she feels as an individual in the world. Artists such as Gerhard Richter, Barbara Kruger, Yago Hortal and Steve Salo are having a large impact on the current work in development.

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