Things that are not a Pipe

2009-08-06T21:52:00.001-05:00

I've got Fire

2009-06-20T11:49:00.000-05:00

Snail

2009-06-20T11:48:00.000-05:00

column

2009-06-20T11:45:00.000-05:00

The LIttle Girl Giant

2009-05-31T07:04:00.000-05:00

Athena Kneeling

2009-04-25T11:48:00.002-05:00

Finished this on Sunday (this is Number 10)

My next one planned is either Kelly F or Vonetta, because these will both go quickly, and quickness is the illusion of productivity

Athena Part I

2009-04-09T09:58:00.001-05:00

Yesterday I finished the Knitting portion of this, and am now starting on the Detail portion

2 pictures

2009-03-23T15:45:00.002-05:00

Blue-Karma-Tiger

2009-03-07T20:16:00.000-06:00

Esty

2009-02-07T11:44:00.000-06:00

I've started an Etsy to sell my wares, check it out here: http://mcglover.etsy.com

If you look away, it might be gone

2009-01-29T22:00:00.002-06:00

I breathe out

2009-01-29T22:00:00.001-06:00

The Water comes next, and rolls away

2009-01-29T21:58:00.000-06:00

Things you wouldn't think of can still dance if they so choose

2009-01-29T21:55:00.000-06:00

where I'm at

2009-01-27T22:47:00.000-06:00

Kelly

2009-01-19T11:49:00.002-06:00

back on the 1st my Friend Kelly posed for my knitted nudes project, and some other portraits, here are two of the best:

Anyway it got me thinking that I'd like to do at least one shoot every month (this wouldn't count the candid projects) anyone interested in February?

Blurring the LIne

2009-01-06T12:04:00.000-06:00

Cauldron

2009-01-06T12:03:00.000-06:00

Empty Classroom

2008-12-30T12:54:00.000-06:00

At Speed

2008-12-30T12:51:00.001-06:00

Winter Mornings in Houston

2008-12-30T12:49:00.001-06:00

The Candle Field

2008-12-30T12:42:00.000-06:00

So, sometime in October I misplaced my Camera/computer cord, and I finally got a replacement today, so I have pictures to share.
First off, my submission to the Lawndale Retablo Show this past year:

This isn't the best picture of it. well, this is the best picture, but it's a wee bit blurry. anyway, xylene transfer of a digital drawing. I was pretty pleased with the effect

Picture time

2008-08-21T21:17:00.001-05:00

And I finally finished the knitting on the knitted nude I've been working on since April. All it took was not having the crap-tacular show in the gallery

Drawing time

2008-08-10T22:20:00.000-05:00

Cameraphone pictures

2008-07-28T13:13:00.001-05:00

Drawbroidery

2008-07-05T22:21:00.001-05:00

better pictures as soon as I can arrange for 'em

So Slow....

2008-06-10T22:13:00.002-05:00

I've been so unproductive lately, lots of ideas, little follow through, this is what I've done since my last post:

I've also been knitting a photo, since April, and this afternoon I found that the entire thing was one stitch to narrow. I think I can make do, but really? one stitch?

le sigh

My Weird Eye Thing

2008-05-06T19:09:00.004-05:00

I may have described this before, but I thought of a great way to describe my weird eye thing, while riding home from work today. Using Choral and duet terms!
Now, most peoples eyes do this:
They work like a choir singing the same information to the brain, and occasionally focusing on one thing.
People with a Lazy eye function like this:
One Eye directs while the other offer harmony.
My eyes, though, are more like this:
They function as a Counter-point to each other, sometimes in Unison, and sometimes offering wildly different songs to my brain, but both of the same import and intensity.

Illuminate

2008-05-04T13:50:00.001-05:00

Jennifer

Melinda

Taylor

Katy

some photos

2008-04-28T15:49:00.000-05:00

Down in Fraggle Rock

2008-04-18T23:11:00.001-05:00

If one arranges the characters of Fraggle Rock against the Hindi cosmology, then an interesting relationship might be noticed

The Gorgs, being the growers, can be identified with Brahma the creator. (this is further stressed by how, if they can't grow radishes anymore they will disappear)
The Doozers, being the constructors and maintainers, can be identified with Vishnu.
The Fraggles, being all chaotic and dancey and destructive of both the Gorgs' radishes and the Doozers' radish structures, can be identified with Shiva.

Establishing Shot

2008-04-07T16:23:00.002-05:00

Establishing Shot

Everything is part of its own epic. This is the Credo that shapes this Body of Work. All candid pictures, they have been rendered slightly into a drawing style to evoke a more "created" appearance to the image. Then speech or thought bubbles, iconic tools of Sequential Art, are added to imply a narrative. The Name of this Body of Work also harkens to Sequential Art, specifically the technique of starting a story with a grand image and beginning in Medias Rae.

Recent Art

2008-04-06T09:38:00.002-05:00

a picture I took recently:
Garden

and the latest Nudesuit:
Vonetta

maybe I'll be more productive today :)

Knitted Animals

2008-03-26T22:08:00.002-05:00

Animals are commonly recognizable forms, and many people empathize with a particular one, thus making Knitted Animals was a natural progression

New Art 3/15/08-3/21/08

2008-03-21T10:32:00.003-05:00

Some One-off Photography and Drawings this week, but first I modeled at Rice this week and while there was a wide range of skills and styles, one student in particular was experimenting in an awesome way. Her name was Jessica Streets, and on the first day she was using painter's tape to describe the lines:

and then on the second day she was doing similar stuff, but with thread and glue:

It was particularly cool, and it's always neat to see someone doing a art technique that you wouldn't have ever thought of yourself.

On to what I did.
Starting with photography,
Skylight:

Morning

Express

I also played around with drawing in Flash with a kind of linear Flat Art Style. I like it, but no one else has said anything about it, so I have no idea if I'm onto anything or not:
The Business

Morning Time

The Vaguries of Love

knitted sculpture 1 on Monday

Exquisite Corpse

2008-03-17T23:14:00.004-05:00

After first learning of the "exquisite corpse" (where in multiple artists make a single figure drawing, I wanted to take that as a spring board. I was especially taken with the notion of framing each section, and so I decided to take multiple shots of the subjects' head and shoulders, then torso, then legs, and seam them together, but noticeably. Let the viewer piece them together in their mind. I've only done two so far, and am looking for models for more. Here they are:
Matt

Trentyn

New Art 3/8/08 - 3/14/08

2008-03-14T21:15:00.001-05:00

Some photos:
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and, while bored today at work I made my first ever collage:

Knitted Nudes

2008-03-10T15:15:00.002-05:00

Knitted Nudes

While working at the Blaffer Gallery, one show that I particularly enjoyed was Girls Night Out. It was photography from female artists, including one of my favorites that I knew of before, Rineke Dijkstra. From that show I also learned about Katy Grannan and Salla Tykka. But my favorite piece of the whole show was The Wall by an English Photographer, Sarah Jones. I was most often positioned by it, and the whole of it fascinated me. Eventually I thought that I should make a blanket out of it, but then I thought about some photographs I had taken for a class project, and that I could use them as bases.
So, after learning to intarsia, and working with the photo in photoshop, I started the first one, and finished six weeks later. Even working at a job where I can knit virtually the entire time I'm at work, they take forever.
Most of the finished pieces I have made since then have been shot specifically for this project. and I am going to vary it soon. After the ninth one, (which I will begin tomorrow morning) some will be full pictures, and some will be sections thereof. I have already made some 9"x9" ones, and this next set will be 2'x2'
the piece of colour in each one is mainly for aesthetic reasons, and each picture is hand-knitted over 4-8 weeks.

Kerrisa's Back

Trinidad's Faith

Krystal, Poised

Morgan, Standing

Notes on where projects stand

2008-03-09T17:52:00.003-05:00

Just some notes to myself

Con*Text
Models to shoot:
Laura M
Jojo M
Billie Jean H

Prints ready: Life is Sparkly, Perfect

Knitted Nudes
1. Retitle
2. Blog Post
3. Stretcher bars for 7&8
4. Plot 9
5.Models to shoot:
Maddie
Thuy
Xuan
Laura
Ivana
Kelly F
Jennifer S
Rachel
Kim
Brittany
Lindsay
Aisen
6.Plot out 2x2s

NudeSuits
inquire about florida article
Models to shoot:
Vonetta
Lindsay
Zac
Tala?

knitted sculptures to do
Zodiac: Rat`, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit`, Dragon`, Snake`, Horse`, Sheep`, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig`

Develop
Exquisite Corpse, Drift, Video, Metal process(es)

New Art 3/1/08 - 3/7/08

2008-03-07T22:40:00.003-06:00

Not much this week, some more ninjas, and some One-off Photos:
Locks

Blue Ribbon

and Lumen

also, probably going to strike the artist profile and the regular event notices, as they seem to be bad luck.

Con*Text

2008-03-03T11:51:00.002-06:00

Con*Text
This Project was first started to fill up time. The initial idea came from the ending credits to the Anime Full-Metal Alchemist, in which all the landscape has text from books printed on it. I thought that that was graphically interesting, so I adapted it to my own style. The first of my projects that dealt with closure (the human minds tendency to fill in gaps in information) The text is mostly stream-of-consciousness while looking at the image. Sometimes the text relates to the model, (as in Giving You a Free Soul) sometimes it relates to me (as in Life is Sparkly in the Dark Places), and sometimes it is free association. Often I come up with a title while sketching poses, but sometimes the titles don't present themselves until I reread the text.

New Art 2/22/08 - 2/29/08

2008-03-01T17:19:00.005-06:00

only Knitted stuff this week:
these I'm thinking of putting on Etsy:

and this is for my sweet friend in Montreal.

(Hopefully it remains a secret until she gets it in the post)

Upcoming Art Stuff

2008-02-27T23:19:00.004-06:00

Tuesday March 4th, will be posing and drawing at Painted Tuesday (held every Tuesday at Avant Garden [411 Westheimer, upstairs] bring a sketchbook and $10, or model for free admission

Friday March 7th, I have work in a Self-portrait show in Austin at the Austin Figurative Gallery:

here are some of the included pieces:

So check it out if you're Austin bound.
http://www.austinfigurativegallery.com/

Chiho Aoshima

2008-02-26T23:35:00.000-06:00

Coming out of the KaiKaiKiKi studio, Chiho Aoshima is a paragon of Flat Art.
Galerie Perrotin
I first saw her work while hanging it in the Blaffer Gallery. Before we even opened the crate I was excited as the name was so fun to say. Try it. Then I saw the work. Hers is a world full of beautiful zombies, living lands, and malevolent cherry blossoms. Every piece has a element of the end and beginning of a world. After a little research I found that she was an economics student (just like me) and I was hooked.
I hope to find some images of hers to post here, but for now, enjoy the above and below links.
London Underground

Nudesuits

2008-02-25T21:23:00.004-06:00

Nudesuits
The oldest body of work that I still consider active (because it's certainly not finished) is my Nudesuits project. Born out of a school assignment, it was inspired by the work of Alba d'Urbano and Greg Friedler. Alba d'Urbano had a performance piece where she made a dress with the printed on pattern of her own skin, then alternatively had a model, or visitors to the art space wear it to be "In her skin." Friedler has an on-going portraiture project in which he takes pictures of the models first in their clothes, then out, and presents them side by side.

My project combines elements of each. I make a portrait in which the model appears to be wearing clothing printed with their own skin. This is a reflection of the self of the model, and also calls to the notion that clothing is the skin we present to the world. Each model is photographed in an area they are comfortable in, first clothed, then nude in the same position, then in photoshop I stitch the two together.

I currently have 12 finished images, and am hoping to one day have around 50. (as such I am seeking models) Particular images I would like to get if possible would be a tuxedo (maybe even a couple in their wedding outfits), Rollerderby players, a Burka, and a swimsuit, although it is the subject's choice of course.

This work has been feature in Bizarre Magazine (June '07) and should be featured again soon.

Upcoming Schedule

2008-02-25T21:18:00.003-06:00

I'm going to try to keep to a regular schedule for the next few weeks, to establish a starting point:
Mondays: Body of Work- I discuss and give examples of one of my many projects
Wednesday: Artist to Look Out For- Basically giving attention to an artist that has influenced me, or that I just like
Thursday: Upcoming Art Events (if any)
Friday: New Work- Work that I've recently finished

Adorable Canadian Actresses and Controversy

2008-02-24T14:18:00.003-06:00

With the Oscars upon us tonight, I've been bugged recently by the "controversy" surrounding the movie Juno. The crux of the argument is that as the titular pregnant teen doesn't get an abortion that the movie is thrusting a pro-life agenda down the audiences gullets. This, to put it simply, is ludicrous. And the idea that the movie may miss out on well deserved recognition for Ellen Page and Diablo Cody because of this manufactured controversy is appauling.

Firstly, she does consider an abortion and goes to the clinic only to be turned wigged out by the general disrepair and lackadaisical attitude she finds within. That coupled with scientifically incorrect information that she gets a misinformed protester leads her to have the baby. Not keep the baby like in Knocked Up and Waitress, both of which are also named in this perceived blitz by pro-lifers, but give up the baby to a childless couple.

Which leads to the Crux of my argument. This is a movie ABOUT teen pregnancy. Juno's pregnancy is the main plot point of the entire story. If we apply the argument of the nay-sayers to this year's Goliath favorite There Will Be Blood then we would be complaining about how Plainview was an oilman instead of looking for bio-fuel.

Let writers write a real story. Don't just backlash because realistic characters make a difficult decision.

*Lame beginning joke

2008-02-23T17:21:00.000-06:00

Hi, this is an art blog, and as such it will touch on my own art (photography, knitting, sculpture, writing, drawing) and on others, with show reviews (maybe?) comic (sequential art) yappiness and other things as they strike me.

My name is Matthew Glover, and I'm an artist living in Houston, TX. You can see some of my work here: http://themightysven.carbonmade.com though I should update it some.

anyway, let's see where this goes...