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Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Molly Reilly

Posted on May 31, 2006 - 2:26 AM by


Gone By by Molly Reilly


Your Art Here presents ‘Gone By’ by artist Molly Reilly for the Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project. The billboard will be mounted May 2006.

Artwork Statement

‘Gone By’ is from a series of landscapes entitled ‘All that Remains Will Be Devoured’. The images are composed from an eclectic stockpile of thrift store acquisitions, domestic detritus and items scavenged from the estates of the deceased. Based off an archive of 1960’s Kodachrome vacation slides, objects representing loss and familiarity are composed within vacant landscapes. Scanned and stitched together these images are full of seams. This is photography on the inside out, stretched and sustained by its remnants.

Foraging through thrift stores developed into my art, as art. Finding things I deemed as interesting had the same kind of satisfaction as photographing. Using the thrift in my art justified not only my obsession to go driving aimlessly, looking for obscure thrift stores but also seemingly useless purchases. Cataloging these things with the scanner gave the objects a replaced realism that was better in ways than owning the object, cluttering my space. This way I was also able to send it back where it came from keeping things moving in a cyclical nature. The flattening of these objects led to the removal of nearly all-structural material. These new compositions lent themselves like big stickers or strips of wallpaper, becoming atmospheric and reminiscent at the same time. Roads leading nowhere and folded, vacuum-like seams in the landscape constituted an exterior sense of comfort that worked its way out from the inside, letting out a certain amount of sadness and taking some back in again.

Artist Bio

Born 1973- Buffalo, NY    In 1997 I received my BFA in Photography from the California College of Arts (CCA) in Oakland CA. Several years later I returned to CCA as the Studio Manager of the Photography Department. At this time I began showing work locally and nationally, including a series of images at the SF Arts Commission Gallery. I held my position as Studio Manager for several years before my acceptance to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. I received my MFA from Cranbrook in 2004. Prior to arriving at Indiana University I taught a variety of photography courses at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and the University of Michigan in Flint.

Visit: www.mollyReilly.com

Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project: Brad Wicklund

Posted on April 12, 2006 - 2:23 AM by


Honk if You’re Lonely by Brad Wicklund

 

 

Your Art Here presents Honk if You’re Lonely by artist Brad Wicklund for the Massachusetts Ave. Billboard Project. The billboard will be mounted April 2006.

Artwork Statement

Every human being has a unique story to tell that is influenced by his or her own experiences and perspectives on reality. Despite this individuality we are all inextricably linked. Even our most mundane actions, when repeated daily or by many people, can have global ramifications. My recent work illustrates those moments when the tension between the personal and universal becomes noticeable by forcing the observer to consider his or her own relationship to a larger community.

Artist Bio

Brad Wicklund was born in Longview, Texas in 1982. While growing up his family moved often which lead him to live in Alaska, Illinois, and several cities in Ohio. In 2001 he began attending Indiana University, Bloomington, where he will graduate from in May 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Printmaking and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History of Art. Along with fellow printmaker, Andrew Maxson, he founded the LOVE FACTORY art collective in January 2006.

Visit: http://www.bradwicklund.com

Billboard Generation IV

Posted on March 12, 2006 - 2:21 AM by

The Astronaut with a Turtle by Tristan, Clear Creek Elementary, Bloomington, IN

 

Announcing the Winners of Your Art Here’s 4th annual youth art billboard competition, Billboard Generation IV, beginning March 1st!

Your Art Here (YAH) is pleased to announce the winning artworks of the fourth annual youth art billboard competition, Billboard Generation IV. In celebration of National Youth Art Month, YAH asked kids to make art on the topic “Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?” Seven artworks made by grade school through high school students will be on display starting March 1st on billboards in Bloomington and Indianapolis.

The Billboard Generation Project gives kids the opportunity to express themselves to the community through visual dialogue. This year’s topic asked kids to self-reflect on the kind of person they want to be as an adult and how they can have a positive effect through their work, their family, and their community. Students from Bloomington and Indianapolis communicated their hopes, dreams, and questions about their future, imagining such things as career choices, what they will look like, and what it will mean to be true to themselves as grown-ups in the world.

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.

Locations of Bloomington Billboards:

  • The Astronaut with a Turtle by Tristan, Clear Creek Elementary School, Boomerang Hair on 6th St, Wall facing Encore parking lot   [map]
  • Astro-Physicist and Artist… That’s What I Want to Be by Erin, Binford Elementary School, Bicycle Garage on Kirkwood Ave., Wall facing People’s Park   [map]
  • find yourself by Alex, Bloomington High School South, Rhino’s Youth Center & All-Ages Music Club on Walnut St. between 2nd and 3rd Streets   [map]

Locations of Indianapolis Billboards:

  • I Want to Be a Zookeeper by Azariah, Paul I. Miller Elementary School, 888 Massachusetts Ave.   [map]
  • The future by Bryan, Grassy Creek Elementary School, 3732 Martin Luther King Jr St.   [map]
  • I am Color by Corinne, Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center, 922 Massachusetts Ave.   [map]
  • My Dream Future by Mariam, Chapel Hill 7th & 8th Grade Center, 1445 Madison Ave.   [map]

Important Dates

Billboard Generation IV is sponsored by Your Art Here and these fine organizations: Bicycle Garage, Bloomington Area Arts Council, Boomerang Hair, Harrison Center for the Arts, Humanetrix, John Waldron Arts Center, Monroe County Community School Corporation, Oliver Winery, Omega Properties, Rhino’s Youth Center & All-Ages Music Club and Second Story Nightclub.

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