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Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Scott David Johnson

Posted on February 21, 2006 - 2:14 AM by


Last Judgment 3 by Scott David Johnson

Your Art Here presents Last Judgment 3 by artist Scott David Johnson for the Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project. The billboard will be mounted January and February 2006.

Artwork Statement

Up close, the personality and mood of an individual can be detected, and the era in which someone lives can show in their clothing. Upon retreating and observing a large crowd from an angled distance, time and fashion dissolves, and older patterns of behavior emerge. War demonstrations
A Brueghel Landscape
A school of fish

Artist Bio

Scott Johnson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1968. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, He moved to Chicago. Mr. Johnson’s oil paintings have been featured in many Chicago area exhibitions, including the Union League Club of Chicago, Schopf Gallery on Lake, and at the Zhou Brothers Arts Foundation. He also participated in “Virtual Symbolism”, a group exhibition at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul.

In addition to appearing in the 2004 Midwest Edition of New American Paintings magazine, Mr. Johnson has been the recipient of many awards and honors. He was selected for Curator’s Choice for the Around the Coyote Arts Festival in 1999, 2002, and 2003. He received a Project Grant from the Community Arts Assistance Program in 1999, 2003, and 2005. His work is in many private collections ranging from Chicago, to Birmingham, Alabama, and Universal City, California.

Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Joseph Traylor & Cate Whitcomb

Posted on January 11, 2006 - 2:17 AM by

Today’s Special by Joseph Traylor & Cate Whitcomb
Your Art Here presents a collaboration between two artists, Joseph Traylor & Cate Whitcomb, for the Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project. Their piece is entitled Today’s Special. The billboard will be mounted January and February 2006.

Artwork Statement

Our goal was to take the vernacular of billboard advertising and apply it to the idea of promoting each day. This work subverts communication channels for product and service advertising into a promotion of the goal enjoying everyday.

Artist Bio:

Joseph Traylor graduated from Indiana University with a BFA in Graphic Design in December 2004. He currently works as a graphic designer in New York, NY.

Cate Whitcomb graduated from Indiana University with a BFA in Graphic Design in December 2004. She currently works as a graphic designer in Portland, OR.

Contact:

Joseph Traylor: traylor.j@gmail.com
Cate Whitcomb: cate.whitcomb@gmail.com

Billboard Generation III

Posted on November 20, 2005 - 7:20 PM by


Search for Truth, 6th St, Two Blocks West of College Ave., Bloomington, IN, by Amber, Harmony School; Photo by Stephanie Stanley

Announcing the Winners of Your Art Here’s 3rd annual youth art billboard competition, Billboard Generation III, beginning March 1st!
Your Art Here (YAH) is pleased to announce the winning artworks of the third annual youth art billboard competition, Billboard Generation III. In celebration of National Youth Art Month, YAH asked kids to make art on the topic “Free Speech: Voice Your Opinion!” Nine artworks made by grade school through high school students are currently on display on billboards in Bloomington and Indianapolis.

The Billboard Generation Project gives kids the opportunity to express themselves to the community through visual dialogue. We believe that expressing unique opinions, and giving a voice to every individual’s ideas is a patriotic and civic duty. Students from the Bloomington and Indianapolis community communicated their thoughts and feeling about a wide variety of issues: the importance of expression, gender equality and equality for the handicapped, equality for all races and ethnicities, the alienation of youth in modern culture, the obesity epidemic, and the search for truth in American culture.

By providing public advertising spaces for youth art we hope to encourage thought on how to enrich our community through visual dialogue. Through this project we want to instill in kids the desire, knowledge, and confidence that will allow them to engage their community and world throughout their lives.

Important Dates

  • March 1st: Billboard Generation III Opens!
  • March 5th, Reception at the John Waldron Arts Center
  • March 11th, Reception at the Harrison Center
  • April 9th, Your Art Here Art Auction and Benefit Show at Second Story, Bands TB
  •  Download the Art Auction Press Release [pdf, 56k]

York Art Here

Posted on May 16, 2005 - 2:14 AM by

Artwork created by York, Alabama 5th and 6th grade students

Your Art Here co-founders Shana Berger and Nathan Purath were resident artists of the Coleman Center for Arts and Culture and the municipalWORKSHOP in May of 2005. They worked with every fifth and sixth grade student in York, where the schools system is still divided along lines of race and economic status. After studying collage art and the idea of community, the students were asked to make drawings about their own communities. All of the drawings were then scanned into the computer and digitally collaged into three art pieces that are currently displayed on billboards throughout the City of York.

 

Massachusetts Avenue billboards- D. Morrison Lyman and Andrew Glenn

Posted on January 7, 2005 - 7:49 PM by


Cleanse, a photograph by D. Morrison Lyman is hanging on the 888 space.

Artwork Statment

Looks at My Loves
The latest series by D. Morrison Lyman
D. Morrison Lyman, a queer Chicago artist and activist, has been shooting and compiling this body of work over several years. Looks at my Loves is a collection of fragmented portraits of people in Morrison’s life and community. The images are snapshot glimpses of a delicious assembly of her loves and community members in all of their grief and glory. Images made are observations of individuals and relationships between: the subject(s) and the environment, the photographer and the subject, and often the subject and the viewer.
Subjects are each part of Morrison’s world in some capacity, as a friend, partner, ally, or advocate. Gender or sexual orientation-wise, they often transcend a common label or definition. For example, some of the subjects may consider themselves lesbians, but others may consider themselves transgender, queer, genderqueer, or genderrevolutionary, as essentially all of these terms represent anything considered ‘deviant’ or ‘alternative’ to/ of the ‘norm’. What constitutes ‘the norm’ is anyone’s educated guess: the dominant ideology, the commonly accepted norms as defined by the majority, and/ or the people in power. In this way, the images of Looks at My Loves serve to inform as well as observe this lifestyle. Consider these photos a true representation of real, queer life in the contemporary Midwest, today. In regards to the April 2005 Your Art Here Billboard image, the artist writes, Untitled (Liz in the tub) is a portrait of my (now former) partner. This image shows the intimacy and vulnerability of being in a loving relationship, and all of the complex emotions that accompany it.

Artist Bio

Morrison Lyman is a Chicago artist, performer, and photographer, and teacher. Raised in a small Midwestern farm community by a single mother artist, Morrison was taught the value and necessity of self-expression at a very early age. She has since developed this need to express into art that comments on and explores such issues as gender, body image, class, relationships, and fractured identity.

Yucca Flat, Andrew Glenn

Detail from Yucca Flat, NV, by Andrew Glenn, is an image that coincides with his MFA Thesis Exhibition, April 13–24, at the Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN, is hanging on the 922 space. Andrew’s opening reception is Friday, April 15, 6–8pm.