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Ida Applebroog

//Ida Applebroog's synopsis //

When growing up Ida Applebroog lived in the Bronx of New York in 1929. Her art work is based around making pointed social commentary in the form of beguiling comic like images. Her style was recognizable, her drawings usually consist of simplified human forms with bold outlines, (some know this as anonymous "everyman" Figures), anthropomorphized animals, and half-human/ half-creature characters. Ida likes to use her artwork by putting them into an installation. Installations are artwork that you are able to interact with, like walking into and seeing all different forms of art. Applebroog likes to put her artwork into the realm of installation by arranging and stacking canvases in space, exploding the frame by frame logic of comic book and film narrative into three dimensional environments. Her artwork holds strong themes of gender, sexual identity, power struggles both political and personal, and the pernicious role of mass media in desensitizing the public to violence. Not only does Ida work around the media's of painting and drawing but, she has also created sculptures, artist's books; several films, and animated shorts that appeared on the side of a moving truck and on a giant screen in times square. Ida Applebroog attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an honorary doctorate from New School University/Parsons School of Design. Ida Applebroog has received many awards, one of them being a John D. and Catherine T. Mac Arthur Foundation Achievement Award which is a very big award.

//Artist's Media //

Not only does Ida work around the media's of painting and drawing but, she has also created sculptures, artist's books; several films, and animated shorts that appeared on the side of a moving truck and on a giant screen in times square. I feel these are common forms of media today because they are more attention grabbing to are public. Her artwork has many forms of political styles which is common today in art because so many problems are in the world today.

-Ida AppleBroog

Picture on left- "Noble Fields," 1987 Oil on canvas, 5 panels, 86 x 132 inches Collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Photo by Jennifer Kotter

Picture on right- "Marginalia (Isaac Stern)," 1992 Oil on canvas, 2 panels, 35 x 39 inches overall Photo by Dennis Cowley

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Assume vivid astro focus

//Assume vivid astro focus's Synopsis //

The collective assume vivid astro focus was fomed in New York City in 2001. The group is made up of 2 members, Eli Sudbrack who was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1968 and Christophe Hamaide-Pierson born in Paris, France in 1973. They use multiple types of media including, drawing, sculpture, video, and performance into carnavalesque installations in which gender, politics, and cultural codes float freely. Personal expression and a lust for life feature prominently in projects simultaneously rooted in the politics of free speech, civil rights, and the dissolution of rigid classifications of class, gender, and national identity. In frequent collaborations with musicians, designers, dancers, and other artists, avaf challenges conventional assumptions about authorship and the role of the artist’s persona in contemporary society and the art world.

//Artist's Media //

They use multiple types of media including, drawing, sculpture, video, and performance into carnavalesque installations in which gender, politics, and cultural codes float freely. The media and themes they use within their artwork is very 21st century because again they are using politics which is a very normal theme to use when creating artwork in these days.

- Avaf



Picture on the left- Trava Cíclope, 2011 Color pigment on paper; 41 x 33 cm Photo: Edouard Fraipont Courtesy Casa Triângulo, São Paulo

Picture on the right- absolutely venomous accurately fallacious (naturally delicious), 2008 Mixed media installation; Dimensions variable Installation at Deitch Projects, Long Island City, New York Photo: Tom Powel Imaging Courtesy Deitch Projects, New York

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Trenton Doyle Hancock

//Trenton Doyle Hancock's Synopsis //

Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. Each new work by Hancock is a contribution to the saga of the Mounds, portraying the birth, life, death, afterlife, and even dream states of these half-animal, half-plant creatures. Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal decisions—such as the use of color, language, and pattern—into opportunities to create new characters, develop sub-plots, and convey symbolic meaning. Hancock’s paintings often rework Biblical stories that the artist learned as a child from his family and local church community.

//Artist's Media //

Hancock’s prints, drawings, and collaged-felt paintings work together to tell the story of the Mounds—a group of mythical creatures that are the tragic protagonists of the artist’s unfolding narrative. This is common in society today because there are a lot of weird conspiracies out there and this is just another one of them.

-Trenton Doyle Hancock



Picture on the left- "Painter and Loid Struggle for Soul Control," 2001 Mixed media on canvas, 103 x 119 inches Collection of Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Picture on the right- "Studio Floor Encounter with Vegans 5," 2002 Graphite and acrylic on canvas, 31 x 31 1/4 inches

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//Why I Choose these Artists //

//Artist's these days all have a common view on art. I feel that most of them these days use art in a way to tell people what is going on around them in the world today. All these artists used art in this form. Ida Applebroog made very political art work and her artwork made me think of my artwork, she shows strong lines in order to show the boldness of the piece. Even in the artwork created by the team Avaf, it relates to the society around us now. There artwork is colorful and sexual almost as if you were at a rave. Kids these days don't have nearly as many rules as they did back in the day and this just shows what are world is coming to. The last artist Trenton Doyle Hancock, made all sorts of artwork that not only was very appealing to the eye but also very mind bottling. They all make you think and I like how he bases his art off of a conspiracy which is something that I also like to do. I feel that these pieces influence me as an artist by allowing me to be a lot more open about my art and to be confident in what I make because everyone has there own style. //