1-Who are the 5 artists you chose?
I chose Jenny Holzer, Gaudalupe Maravilla, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Salah Elmur, Barbara Kruger, and Carrie Mae Weems.
2-What were the themes the artists addressed about making work?
Jenny Holzer: Jenny addresses the theme of wanting people to concentrate on the content and the writing and art, and not who did it. She wants the work to be of utility to as many people as possible.
Gaudalupe Maravilla: Gaudalupe addresses the theme of his ancestry and his own personal history of migrating to the United States from El Salvador. Aswell as connecting yourself to the universe to heal, but also help complete his artwork
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Tuan addresses the theme of being open-minded and experiencing history through his own lens, as well as his journey of listening to unheard stories. He dives into migration and working with the Vietnamese community and history. Tuan works with moving image and sculpture to give objects new meaning
Salah Elmur: Salah addresses the theme of history, his own history and his family, nostalgia, and His home country, Sudan. Specifically, the political situation there.
Barbra Kruger: Barbra addresses the fact that the availability of her work is important to her, as well as discussing and questioning power, value, political, and social issues through the visual language of text, design, and ads.
Carrie Mae Weems: Carrie addresses how her series is a voice for all women, spaces of domesticality (the kitchen) that historically belonged to women, how to alter this domestic space, and the social dynamic between men and women.
3-What were the challenges the artists faced in making their work?
Jenny Holzer: Jenny faced challenges in her artwork due to trying to find locations that would allow her to display her artwork, since it is a projector displaying large images. She also struggled with finding the right words or phrases sometimes, to project as she wanted to keep the sentences short but powerful
Guadalupe Maravilla: Guadalupe struggled with emotion while making his work. He traveled around places gathering materials to use for his work, and he would become emotional. For example, in Mexico City, he found a pair of children's silver sandals that looked to be very worn, and he became emotional, thinking and feeling the energy of all the unaccompanied and displaced children walking with him.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Tuan struggled with the idea of home and place, since he never felt a sense of welcoming or home in the U.S.
Salah Elmur: Salah struggles with not being able to go back to his country, Sudan, because of the war. He said this is the longest he's gone without going back, and he is struggling because when he needs to feel like himself or "recharge his battery," that's where he goes.
Barbra Kruger: Barbra struggled with her early artist journey as she knew she grew up lower class and how that would effect her chances of her future. She also struggled with being intimated going to museums and thinking she could only produce art or become an artist in one medium.
Carrie Mae Weems struggled with finding her own voice.
4-What were the inspirations you drew from the artists?
Inspirations that I drew from the artists are that art doesn't always have to be paintings or images for me to express a message or how I'm feeling. I could also use different mediums such as words or even items that I find, to create something new. These artists also inspired me to use my environment to really think and feel about where I am and the idea of place, instead of getting lost in my day-to-day and incorporating this into my art.
5-What were the things you would like to incorporate into your own work after watching these videos?
I would like to incoperate into my own work more phrases and text into my own work, simple words and sentences with large scale or colors can really be impactful and eye-catching. I would also like to incorporate more thought of my environment, along with my own history, into my work. I feel like i dont take the time to feel my environment and think of what it means to me.
Jenny Holzer
Frida Kahlo "Self Portrait on the border between Mexico and the United States" (1932)
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