Hello Classmates, Here's my Art 21 project!

1. Art 21 Project
January 28th, 2016
By: Denise Kirksey
Teacher: Daniel Riesmeyer

2. Artist: Catherine Opie
By: Denise Kirksey
Catherine Opie, "Idexa," 1993, courtesy Regen Projects, LA
Subjects people don’t want to talk about
Catherine was speaking about borrowing from all these cultures with our
style and our tattoos, just like architecture does (portrayal of body
modification).recognizing different periods within culture.
Opie was interested in marking a time period with my friends, and
creating a sense of history in relationship to body modification that
also works on the tribal level of identifying with one another.
Catherine Opie - Idexa, 1993 | PHOTOGRPHY_PORTRAIT | Pinterest2279 x 2983 ·
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3. Subject people don’t want to talk about.
By: Denise Kirksey
Catherine Opie’s art piece spoke about labeling people in
order to belong to certain groups. I thought about religion.
These people are all labeled by their religion. Religion is a
subject that people don’t want to talk about.

4. Mark Bradford’s (Kryptonite 2006)
By: Denise Kirksey
Mark Bradford's work addresses the spontaneous systems and networks that
materialize within cities, such as displaced communities,
patterns of violence, and black-market economies. The art caused me to
understand, empathize and feel what’s being depicted. Bradford gives modernism’s vision
of an ordered utopia a lethal reality check as hard-edged borders and harmonious planes are
exchanged for independent non-defined forms engaging
in unruly turf-war. Evolving his surface as a highly textured topography, Bradford uses gesture and
mark-making to encapsulate the dissonance and excitement of a metropolitan landscape.
Materials: Collage and Paint on Paper
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5. TRAPPED
By: Denise Kirksey
Mark’s work gave me an idea
about the Black Market Economy.
I came up with this Art piece
called trapped!
Bradford’s art caused me to
understand, empathize and feel
what’s being depicted.
In the Art piece (trapped) which is
all made of recycled aluminum
foil. You will find an African
American male behind bars. He is
trapped within himself. Due to
the fact, he grew up in a drug
infested community and he cant
help but to participate in the drug
war in which he was raised. He
knows , the choices he makes has
it’s consequences.

6. "B Painting (Greenheads)" (1996) Laylah Ali
Belts, because of the multiple ways they can be used. Belts being practical, to
hold up their pants. Belts as instruments of domestic violence. Belts to hang
some of my characters. Superheroes most often have belts. If we’re going to
use that word, ‘power,’ belts connote some kind of power.
The colors she used were very well balanced.
Laylah Ali
"B Painting (Greenheads)," 1996
Gouache on paper, 11 x 7 1/2 inches
Courtesy the Artist

7. Belts/ By: Denise Kirksey
I can relate to the Artist (Ali) when she said that
belts have power. Belts also have the power to restrain.