Continuing the Art of Play
December 14, 2022
Artist: Diana Cooper
Join Zoom Meeting / Class
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87618016665
American visual artist, known for largely abstract, improvised hybrid constructions that combine drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and photography. Her art has evolved from canvas works centered on proliferating doodles to sprawling installations of multiplying elements and architectonic structures. Critics have described her earlier work—primarily made with craft supplies such as markers, pens, foamcore, pushpins, felt, pipe cleaners, tape and pompoms—as humble-looking yet labor-intensive, provisional and precarious, and "a high-wire act attempting to balance order and pandemonium."
“For me, doodling is simultaneously a process and an image. Doodling is a visual way of thinking or of tracing one’s thoughts. Artistically, I feel I am still reaping the benefits of that discovery.”
_
“Like many artists, I want to translate into abstract visual language my thoughts, experiences, and emotions.”
Warm-up:
Beginning with mindless doodling, see where the lines, colors, and shapes take you.
Suggested materials:
markers
pen
ink
pencil
Project:
Your warm-up may inspire a dimensional piece, adding additional layers, materials, shapes, and objects to create your final work.
Was Anyone Looking, 2000, mixed media on paper, 38 x 50 x 1½".
From Here to There, 2002 | Lithograph collage
16 1/4 × 15 × 1 in | 41.3 × 38.1 × 2.5 cm
Experiments in 3-D, 2000, ink, acrylic and felt tip markers on canvas, 88x142 inches
My Favorite Song is Over, 2001, acrylic, ink, acetate on paper, 67 x 75.5 x 4 inches
Trip | Mixed Media, 43x76 paper
Family Safe, 2019, inkjet print, PVC, paper, wood, glitter felt, glitter paper, acrylic paint, artist tape, mirrors, plastic and metal frames,metal hardware, metal wire, 115 x 103 x 42 inches
Orange Alert UK, acetate, acrylic, felt, neoprene, paper, foam core, corrugated plastic and map pins, dimensions variable, 2003–8. MOCA Cleveland/Postmasters Gallery.
And I Couldn’t find You, 1998-1999, acrylic, felt tip marker, felt, cardboard and pipe cleaners on canvas, wall and floor, 94 x 105 x 25 inches
All Our Wandering, 2007, Wood, vinyl, pigment print, ink, acrylic, felt tip marker, colored pencil, ball point pen, Velcro, foam rubber, and felt,
76.25x79.5x142.5 inches
© Copyright 2022 | The Joy of Creativity