Final Portfolio

All Photos Displayed on http://thisladyphotographs.tumblr.com/ for best viewing

Series One: 

"Fabelhaft" Series

Photography

(Existing Prints at 8.5 x 11 inches)

2014

Series Two:

"The Explorers" Series

Photography

(Existing Prints at 8.5 x 11 inches)

(*"The Explorers One" has one print at 3 feet x 5 feet)

2014

Series Three:

"Body" Series

Photography

(Existing Prints at 8.5 x 11 inches)

2014

Series Four:

"Seasons or Something" Series

Photography

(Existing Prints at 8.5 x 11 inches)

2014

Series Five:

"Tin Foil Queen" Series

Photography

(Existing Prints at 8.5 x 11 inches)

2014

Piece Six:

"Self Portrait"

Photography/Oil Painting Mixed Media

8.5 x 11 inches

2014

Materials Cost

Paint/Canvas/Gel Medium/SD cards/TONS of Photo Paper/basically photo materials and props/misc.
Total:
297.52
(just to give you an idea, one package of photo paper is about $40)

+Prints for Portfolio Show Covered by Grant
(Grant $445)



                                       

Juried Show

Application Dates: Dec 23, 2013 - May 12, 2014 Application Fee:  $32.00 ($27.00 for Naples Art Association members) Notification Date: Jun 19, 2014

Camera USA National Photography Award and Exhibition 2014 Exhibition on view: August 11 - September 26, 2014 All photographers residing in the United States are invited to submit one photograph taken in the United States after January 1, 2012 for Camera USA: National Photography Award and Exhibition 2014. The photography exhibition will be installed in The von Liebig Art Center’s Frederick O. Watson Gallery from August 11 through September 26, 2014. The von Liebig Art Center is located in Naples, Florida in the heart of the 5th Avenue South shopping, dining and arts district. Eligibility  Photographers residing in any of the fifty States in the United States of America are cordially invited to enter one photograph taken in the United States after January 1, 2012 and not previously exhibited at The von Liebig Art Center. Membership in the Naples Art Association is not required. Accepted photographs must remain on display for the entire duration of the exhibition and will not be available for pick up until 12 noon on Sunday, September 28, 2014. Entry Fees  Applications will be accepted online until May 12, 2014. The non-refundable application fee is $32 (for current NAA members the entry fee is $27) and is payable online by credit card. Presentation and Size Limitations  All photographs accepted for the Camera USA Exhibition must be delivered in exhibition ready condition. Photographs must be framed or gallery wrapped with no staples on the sides and a proper hanging wire with raw wire ends taped. For safety reasons, glass may be used only if the frame is 20 x 20 inches or smaller. Larger frames requiring a glazing must have Plexiglas. Dimensions : Maximum framed dimensions not to exceed 40 x 40 inches. When completing your Juried Art Services application, you will be asked to enter the framed dimensions of the photograph you wish to exhibit. Notification Notifications will be posted to your Juried Art Services account on June 19, 2014. To view your results, log into your Juried Art Services account and go to “applications.” Mouse over the Camera USA application bar and click on it when your cursor becomes a hand symbol. Your notification letter will then open. The Camera USA award winner will be notified by telephone or e-mail on August 1, 2014. all of the info can be found http://www.juriedartservices.com/index.php?content=event_info&event_id=768&admin_verify_view=true

Art and Fear: Second Response

“The point is that you learn how to make your work by making your work, and a great many of the pieces you make along the way will never stand out as finished art.” Pg.6

“You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn’t very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren’t good, the parts that aren’t yours.”  p. 26

1.      

 What work have you made that seems most yours? Why?

-At the beginning of the semester I answered that my photographs seemed to be the most "mine", but I had no idea how true that would become. I have really transformed into a "photographer" now. I really know how (and of course will continue to learn) to own my photography. It's become something very personal to me.

“Chances are that whatever theme and technique attract you, someone has already experimented in the same direction. This is unavoidable: making any art piece inevitably engages the larger themes and basic techniques that artists have used for centuries. Finding your own work is a process of distilling from each those traces that ring true to your own spirit.”  p. 103

 Who are artists that are making work that relates to you?  Are there other influences? How are these other influences connected to your work?

-Again, I can't get away from some of my answers from the beginning. Sebastien Michel is still one of my biggest influences, but I've also discovered so many more. Stephane Fugier has seemed to become one of the biggest influences. You can go back in my blog to see other artists as well. I also really discovered throughout the semester how much I rely on music. It's almost kind of embarrassing because I've listened to some of the same bands for almost ten plus years now, but they have helped me through so much and they have really pushed me through some creative processes. I think I've discovered that almost everything is a influence to your art. Everything is connected to my work I mean, I my photography at this point kind of thrives off of everyday moments and materials, I kind of have to find inspiration in each and every little moment. 

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“And while a hundred civilizations have prospered (sometimes for centuries) without computers or windmills or even the wheel, none have survived even a few generations without art.”  p. 104

Discuss, in your own words, why you think this is so.

-I think art is the mind's natural way of getting ideas out. It's a form of communication, it's a form of recording, it's a creative outlet. Art serves so many different purposes, but most importantly it keeps our brains from exploding. Computers and windmills and the wheel all came to be because of art, someone had those ideas and someone drew them out. Art is what comes first. <-yeah, past me is pretty spot on. Mostly art has always been used as least as some sort of a tool in some sense. It's like our most basic tool.

“Art is something you do out in the world, or something you do about the world, or even something you do for the world. The need to make art may not stem solely from the need to express who you are, but from a need to complete a relationship with something outside of yourself.”  p. 108

 Which of these ideas resonates most with you? Why? If they all resonate, how do they differ?

-I think similarly to how I answered this before, all of these ideas are connected. For me personally, I think I do a little bit of each. It just depends on what you're doing, what sparked what you're doing, and who exactly you are doing it for. You can do art to express who you are and still be doing it out/about/for the world. The "relationship" that I need to complete varies pretty often with each piece, and honestly, I think sometimes my work does end up being a lot more about myself than I realize.

“Making art depends upon noticing things-things about yourself, your methods, your subject matter.”  p. 109

What do you notice about yourself? What are your methods?  Subject matter?  The answers do not have to be limited to art related topics.

-I notice that I have become a lot more self aware and a lot more self involved as I become more involved in my art. I am a perfectionist. I like to have plans, even if they don't work out. I like working in a studio (as a method). I set aside certain time periods for everything. My paintings are based off of photographs. My subject matter is almost always of people. If it's not of people it's of things that people care deeply about.

-For comparison I'm just going to leave my old answer here. I've become probably too self aware and too self involved now that I'm incredibly involved in my art. It only becomes more and more true each day. I'm probably going to grow old in a studio full of my art, with my dog as a lonely, stubborn artist, and honestly, I've become quite happy with that image. I'm still a perfectionist. I still want to improve on my environmental photography but I certainly still prefer to work in the studio. My paintings HAVE strayed away from my photographs! Look! A change! But I also feel as though I currently have no direction in my painting and that I am drowning because of it. My subject matter is always of people. So basically I've just become a more awesome, more self-involved/art-involved version of myself! Hooray!!!

“The only work really worth doing- the only work you can do convincingly- is the work that focuses on the things you care about.”  p. 116

“All this suggests a useful working approach to making art: notice the objects you notice.” Pg.101

What do you care about? The answers do not have to be limited to art related topics.

-I care about people, and this is the most obvious subject that spills into my art. I care about identities, little everyday moments, conversations, overlooked details. I care about myself, a relatively new concept, trying to grasp still. I care about music, dogs, dancing, mental illness, erasing negative stigmas about a variety of subjects! I care about things that are genuine, that are honest, that are true. 

Artist Statement

My work seeks to juxtapose vulnerability and power.  I organize environments and direct models to create an image that is expressive of these qualities. I am inspired by obscure moments of daily life.  These moments fuel the identities of my subject matter.  I thoughtfully use formal elements such as shape, line, color and texture to enhance sentiment.  I also consider the symbolic qualities of props, wardrobe and the gaze of my models. My end goal is to create a dramatic image that engages the viewer emotionally.

Week Fourteen

New Work:
http://thisladyphotographs.tumblr.com/

Inspiration:
Chase Jarvis
Specifically : Lindsey and Seattle 100 Book
http://www.chasejarvis.com/#s=10&mi=1&pt=0&pi=2&p=-1&a=-1&at=0

Week Thirteen

Inspiration:
http://www.richardavedon.com/

(Richard Avedon)

Also this again:

(Stephane Fugier HUGE inspiration always)

New Work:
http://thisladyphotographs.tumblr.com/

Official Photography Facebook!

I have an "official" Facebook page now

https://www.facebook.com/alyschaperphotography

So please go like it, and have everyone that you know go like it as well!

Week Twelve

New Work!!!

http://thisladyphotographs.tumblr.com/

(Excuse the blogs as I work on switching things over/clean both of them up a bit.)

About this week's work:
I had a few goals this week, the main goal being to do some environmental photography and start improving on it. (I work primarily in a studio and have grown quite fond of it. It's time to expand my horizons!) With that said, I decided to also take some advice from several people and I incorporated more models and the interactions between the models, I played with really setting up scenes, and I worked more with choices about clothing, props, and make up. I knew that I wanted to do something fun, and I was thinking about the "fairy" theme, but it just so happened that two of the girls had mermaid dresses, so it became a lot more awesome! I was even lucky to have one of my friends help out with the make-up, so this was definitely one of the most planned out/organized photo shoots that I've done so far.

Inspiration:

http://augardephotography.daportfolio.com/

Week Eleven

Inspiration:
Manchester Orchestra's New Album:

Brand New's Album Daisy: 

The Two Story House

thetwostoryhouse.com

New photos on thisladyphotographs.tumblr.com

Week Ten

Inspiration this week:

http://www.kirstymitchellphotography.com
http://www.kirstymitchellphotography.com/collection.php?album=5 <--- this whole collection!

Tanis sent me a link to like Kirsty Mitchell's photography and I fell in love!!!

At least one of these will probably end up going to my Portrait Photography course, but here's three awesome sets for now!

Okay, so, due to technical difficulties through blogger, this week's photos can be found here:

http://thisladyphotographs.tumblr.com/

(excuse that mess as it gets completely set up, but, the photos are there!)

Body

(But here's a preview of the only ones that didn't get completely distorted.)

Week Nine Photography-Tons of it

Inspiration:
http://wearesodroee.com/2013/08/25/amy-judd/
http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2014/03/11/todd-baxter/

(Wes Anderson in general. He's genius. And came up in my week a lot. But this movie.)

*disclaimer
4 of the 6 sets will be for Portfolio officially
(2 are for other classes, they will be displayed here but marked as for another class)
Also this is all in progress right now, so please excuse my mess!


Series One (Went outside of my comfort zone and experimented both in the studio and in photoshop here. Woo.)

(still having issues with photos looking way different on blogger??? why is this happening?)

Part of Series Two (messing around with manipulation)

Series Three (Officially Claimed for Photography II now)

Part of Series Four

Series Five (For Portrait Photography)

 Part of Series Six

Week Eight Reading

Inducing Empathy
Tony Oursler
304-313
"Paranoic, demented, tormented, demonic, hallucinatory-any of these words can be used to describe Tony Oursler exhibitions." WHY AM I SO ATTRACTED TO THESE TYPES OF THINGS? I honestly saw the words "tormented" and "hallucinatory" as I was flipping through the book trying to find a reading, and I instantly stopped to read simply based off of this first sentence. I feel like that says a lot about me...and I'm aware that I'm drawn to "psychological disturbances" and I really admire artists that put the extreme on display like Oursler does. There were just so many statements in this reading that I agreed with, with this artist that I agreed with. I think one of the only things that got me was that he doesn't see his work as self-expressionism, but I think to produce things of this nature there has to be at least a little bit of personal experience in it. Overall I'm just fascinated with this artist, I want to see an exhibition now, and I really admire such daring work that forces people to become aware of psychological struggles and how exposed to "horror-sex-violence" that we really are.

Week Eight

Inspiration:

http://stephane.fugier.free.fr/sf/sf2/index.html

http://laughingsquid.com/foods-expertly-painted-to-look-like-other-foods/

http://www.hikarucho.com/

Also: Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (on blog previously) came back into play, and Holidays/Tim Burton played a role.

(Some of these might still be in progress, and I might also be adding more, so please excuse my mess. Also on the screen that I'm currently on the Blogger preview of the photos are showing up different and usually lighter than what they actually are, so that may be happening on your screen as well. Trying to figure this out.)

Also: Gaby Photo Transfer In Progress

(I'm thinking of adding more layers of transfers for this one? Then possibly adding in paint, or not.) This week was about experimentation and trying first ideas. This is all to be worked on and made better, is the goal.