Spotlight_ Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

The Palace of Projects
The installation displays and examines a seemingly commonly known and even trivial truth: the world consists of a multitude of projects, realized ones, half-realized ones, and not realized at all. Everything that we see around us, in the world surrounding us, everything that we discover in the past, that which possibly could comprise the future - all of this is a limitless world of projects.

CONCEPT: SKIN

MARCH 9th

skin

–noun

1.

the external covering or integument of an animal body, esp. when soft and flexible.

2.

such an integument stripped from the body of an animal, esp. a small animal; pelt: a beaver skin.

3.

the tanned or treated pelt or hide of an animal, esp. when used in apparel and accessories; leather (usually used in combination): pigskin; calfskin.

4.

any integumentary covering, casing, outer coating, or surface layer, as an investing membrane, the rind or peel of fruit, or a film on liquid: a skin of thin ice; the aluminum skin of an airplane.

5.

Jewelry.

a.the outermost layer of a pearl.

b.the outermost layer of a diamond as found: often different in color and refraction from the inner part of the stone.

6.

Nautical.

a.the shell or ceiling of a hull.

b.the outer, exposed part of a furled sail.

7.

Metallurgy. an outer layer of a metal piece having characteristics differing from those of the interior.

Assignment:
Design an object based on the concept proposed intended for production in whatever media you feel appropriate. The object need not be rendered as the main focus of this stage is:
a. Meaning: find your personal interpretation to the concept.
b. Experiment: find the best way to transmit the idea through prototypes, sketches, and references.
c. Presentation: show your work in a creative yet organized and comprehensive way.

DEADLINE: March 16th

Spotlight_ Cindy Sherman

Conceptual portraits always using herself as the model.

Spotlight_ Elizabeth Peyton

Best known for stylized and idealized portraits of her close friends and boyfriends, pop celebrities, and European monarchy.

Spotlight_ Warhol

Spotlight_Vik Muniz

Works with very different materials, here shown peanut butter and jelly paintings, pasta, bean soup and collage junk.

CONCEPT: ICONS

ICONS
MARCH 2nd

Icon

/ikon/

• Noun
1 (also ikon) a devotional painting of Christ or another holy figure, typically on wood, venerated in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.
2 a person regarded with particular admiration or as a representative symbol.
3 Computing a symbol or graphic representation on a VDU screen of a program, option, or window.

— ORIGIN Greek eikon ‘image’.



Assignment:
Create an image based on the concept proppossed intended for graphic representation in whatever media you feel appropriate.

DEADLINE:
March 9th