Looking into the effect of optical art:

http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/docview/925452919

Patterns, optical effects make for eye-teasing art: in the galleries

Bill Van Siclen. The Providence Journal [Providence, R.I] 01 Mar 2012: D.3

Artists:

Nate Ethier:

New York City-based painter who has a knack for eye-teasing patterns and colors. A work called "Islands," for example, features a classic grid pattern rendered in luscious shades of flamingo pink.

Nate Ethier, "Islands"

In my work/ final installation I can explore creating different visual experiences for the viewer and play with the intensity of the imagery and colour combinations.

Sounds Trees Make, 2013, acrylic on canvas

NIAGARA, 2011, ACRYLIC/CANVA

Shortpants Romance, 2013, acrylic/canvas

Kite, 2012, acrylic/canvas, 23 x 21

Yesterday at work I was having a discussion with a customer at work about my art exhibition. I described to him my intentions to create intense, colourful works with a powerful, overwhelming effect on the viewer's senses. I told him how I was using bright coloured wool to create swirl patterns, amongst other found materials such as fur, beads, and different fabrics.

He referred me to a group of works done by the Huichol Indians of Mexico.

http://www.indigoarts.com/gallery_huicholart1.html

of a variety of ritual arts long practiced by the Huichol. The Huichol are known for the symbolic patterns of plants and animal spirits, which they lavish on their cross-stitch embroidery, xukuri beaded gourd votive bowls, and a variety of prayer objects and crosses woven of sticks, feathers, yarn and other materials, which they called nierika."

 

More updates:

Still continuing to make...make...make

thinking of filling  tray with coloured beads - random colour rlationships

 using everyday objects - bowls - covering with coloured wool and introducing different textured materials to heighten the viewer's senses.

 

experimenting with new materials....felt..

need to look at scale, if I want to stretch the felt around a canvas or have it flat??

3D objects, working on creating different textured surfaces

My end of year space if like a room with 3 walls (an environment)...therefore I want to fill it with a number of interesting works thaty will chellange the viewer's visual knowledge and awaken their senses to new shapes, colour combinations and give them an overwhelming experience.

 

experimenting with different background textures for 3D circles - fur etc

this is a work on a bed sheet that will allow me to have a flexible circle that I can warp over corrugated iron of make into my own warped bean bag.

New ideas:

FOCUS ON THE PRODUCTION!!

keep making!!

introducing different objects, backgrounds etc.

 - fabrics - fur, felt, silt
  - corrugated iron
 - making my own bean bag
 - different surfaces - balls, bowls, bin
 - different shapes objects - Jenny's old painted box

 - warping spiral circles over corrugated iron

Grow Room, 2008, Braddock, PA, paint on massive corrugated metal warehouse, artwork by Maya Hayuk

Warping patterns with beans

I have been doing a lot of thinking while making about how this body of work originated.

I have always enjoyed working intensely with colour and line to create an image that has a strong visual effect and speaks of value in effort and liberating colour from form.

I first started with circles back in March, in my yr two pilot show installation. My idea was to reference town lights through, shape, colour, and combine them with the fast pace of town. The colours and circular movement of the lines drew the viewer into a sort of vortex.

I looked closely at vortices and the effect of their movement on the viewer's eye, not allowing them to focus on a specific point and putting the viewer out of complacency through this movement and choice of colours.

Van Gogh's painting, "Starry Night," was a a starting point for capturing the movement of light and stars in the night sky. I then translated this idea to my pilot show work and have carried it through to my current works.

COLOUR!

Colour has played a huuge role in my art practice and combined with line it allows me to push the visual comfort of the viewer.


Looking at the creating movement:

http://www.montana-cans.com/montana-blog/2013/08/23/red-never-follows-steffen-seeger-port-magazine-1/

“Also exhibiting is Berlin-based artist Steffen Seeger, who uses his aptly titled ‘One Line’ technique to create images from a single fluid motion in a range of ink-based medias. Betty Wood spoke to the German artist ahead of the exhibition’s opening on 31 July to find out more about his fascination with the fleeting, and how his technique has grown from an early interest in letter writing.”

http://www.port-magazine.com/feature/red-never-follows-steffen-steeger/#&panel1-1 - 

The Berlin-based artist discusses the origins his unorthodox ‘One Line’ technique ahead of HUGO’s 20th anniversary expo

Thinking about possible installation ideas....

after looking at the installation of Lambie's coloured tape works and how they are fit into a particular space I have started to consider the space I am installing in. I have thought about the backing materials for my circles and contemplated putting some on canvas to bend around corners, while others sit on plastic, leaning against the wall and linking to ones lying flat on the ground.

http://illusion.scene360.com/art/46558/gorgeous-floor-installations-2/

To create these patterned carpets, Dutch artist Suzan Drummen uses diverse materials like mirrors, precious stones, metal pieces, and more. Each object is meticulously hand-placed, and to reach certain areas it is like playing a game of Twister.

Jim Lambie:

I have been looking a lot at his work recently:

 - works within the space
- alters the viewer's perception
 - introduces colour relationships (constrasting colours) - I have been looking at colours that make others pop and buzz against each other.
 - angles and lines
- suggesting movement and optical illusions
 - use fo everyday household tape

http://www.mutantspace.com/jim-lambie-vinyl-tape-floor-installations/

Jim Lambie is a Scottish artist who creates vinyl tape floor installations using colourful geometrical shapes on the floors of everyday spaces. He creates angles and lines of contrasting colours, using household tape, to suggest movement and optical illusions that hark back to a kind of 60s timewarp. Once normal everyday rooms become injected with a vibrancy bordering on the psychedelic.

                                                             Jin Lambie, "ZOBOP"

 

                                                            Jime Lambie, "Taped Faces"

Rebecca Ward:

Rebecca Ward lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She uses miles of colored tape to transform white exhibition spaces into dynamic rooms with vibrant intersections. The nature of the medium results in a temporary transformation and adds to the importance of in-person viewing. From her bio: “Ward frequently works with tape installations whose primary concerns are colour and space. Tape adheres to the gallery’s ceilings, walls and floors converging with the architecture. This perceptual play of colour, texture and light is set into motion by the viewer’s interaction with the work.”

 

 

 - looking at line, colour, and altering the viewers perception by creating a sense of movement so the viewer's eye has trounble finding a spot to rest.