Each post will look at how money and income streams influence the type of work and
aesthetic decisions artists (as well as curators) make inside and outside the studio.
Not exact matches
In Phantasmagoria, the two
artists develop this accidental
aesthetic of the night club photography, replacing it with conscious
decision - making and the stylistic precision identifiable in high - concept fashion editorial.
As significant as process is in both of their works, there is a potential assumption that the
artists were dictated by the process, but what also ties these
artists together is their sophistication; to be able to simultaneously make physical process
decisions and make very specific
aesthetic decisions.
My work is heavily influenced by the
aesthetic histories of many different tribes and specific
artists, how that work has been collected and exhibited, and many of my material and format
decisions are drawn directly from these histories.»
Among the works in the exhibition are 25 photographs by Los Angeles
artist Judy Fiskin from her series Some
Aesthetic Decisions, 1990, that aestheticize objects, architecture and interiors that do not conform to conventions of elevated taste.
His
decision to embrace sobriety, as well as the
decision to be very particular about what influences his practice, gives his latest work new direction detaching it from the brand or
aesthetic he has built up through skateboarding, and giving it a maturity that might not be expected from an
artist so young.
In his work he investigates how algorithms can analyse digital archives and guide the
artist in
aesthetic decision taking, leading to a symbiosis of man - machine art creation.
Rather than offering didactic explanations for each
aesthetic decision,
artists may rediscover the value in enigmatic, emotionally - rooted work whose meaning is intuitively derived and not so easily explained.
Was there a cartoon from your childhood or a specific
artist that became the platform for these
aesthetic decisions?
Yet as LeWitt moved from making systemic objects to wall drawings and eventually what can only be called murals, his use of plans, diagrams, and instructions emphasized the ideas that circumscribed his work and the nature of those
decisions that constitute an
artist's taste and
aesthetic vision — or in LeWitt's case, those of the people hired to execute his work.
Discussing his work with
artist Sam Durant at the Hammer earlier this month, Gaines explained that his practice is a struggle against «art as a subjective practice,» and that he seeks to avoid
aesthetic decision - making because it privileges «the idea of beauty or pleasure as emerging from the site of the self or the ego.»
In the other cut - canvas work ufo2, 2006, a previously exhibited piece which was returned to the studio to remain unopened until the
artists decision to include it in the exhibition, the
artist once again demonstrates his connection to
aesthetic continuums.