Now that I am free and I have time in my hands, I've been looking at different artists. It's so funny because I wish I had this motivation DURING the school year but now that I have an empty mind, it's so much easier to just explore.
Jen Stark.
I was in a class called New Directions this semester with my professor James Ransome and it was fun. Basically, the class was all about illustrating with new medias and technqiues. In another words, we were trying to stray away from the traditional paint and charcoal. One of my favorite things was was working with cut paper. I found this young artist, Jen Stark on my friend's blog and it was really profound. It seems very sophomoric because her art doesn't really require any material but to find illusions with simple media was what really astonished me. What Stark basically does is, either layer different shapes of stock paper or layer them and then cut each layer out. What's also cool is that, with some of her paper sculptures, she digitally renders them so that they can be used as designs and serve for advertisement purposes.
These are some of her paper sculptures. Piacere! (that means enjoy in Italian)
