9-11 Never Forget

A few photos I took of my husband in honor of those who have served our country, those who currently do, and those who will.

If you're ever in San Antonio, Texas...

Over the past Fourth of July holiday my husband and I went to San Antonio, TX to visit his brother before he left for Afghanistan for the next year. We had blast even though we were battling triple digit temperatures the entire time! One of my favorite places I went to was the McNay Museum. We were shocked to see pieces from Pablo Picasso, Max Weber, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, Edourd Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renior, Vincent van Gogh, just to name a few. So, if you happen to be in San Antonio...check it out! And if you're there in the dead of summer like us, the McNay has THE BEST AC!!!

www.mcnayart.org

diptychs, triptychs, and grids

Listed bellow are a list of artists who specialize in diptychs, triptychs, and grids. I was provided with them in class for influence and ideas for the current project I am working on. Looking at the work of these artists helped me formulate the ideas for my current project and have also inspired me for future projects. For this project I decided to document people, through the use of triptychs, focusing on one specific detail others may not know about them at first glance. Some of the influences I found for this project came from the artists listed below and some from artist Gillian Wearing. In Wearing's In the Making series she had her subjects 'communicate' through a written statement on a piece of paper and then documented them through photographs. A lot of her work involves discovering honest or unknown details of people. We often judge people at first glance without knowing anything about them. If they are presented in another way maybe we wouldn't be so quick to judge...

Gilbert and George

David Hilliard

John Bernhard

Lorna Simpson

Roddy Macinnes

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Christian Boltanski

David Hilliard's The Portrait, The Environment

David Hilliard's Bleeder