Participation & Performance

For my performance piece, I will be setting up an easel near my exhibit "Untitled-1." The existing piece has roughly 100 patches made from digital and paint brushes. I made the patches along with my siblings and grandma. I gave them a blank sheet of drawing paper, brushes, and black acrylic; and said "Make whatever you want." I then took those brushes and scanned them into photoshop. Using photoshop I also made digital patches using simulated brushes (the digital version of what I used in the originals). Finally, in full color, I made collages of those are central to the piece. Folks will be asked to approach the easel and make their own patch of paint. By joining in something so simple and freeing, I hope that negative perceptions and attitudes toward art will be broken down. The action is so primitive in the simple making of marks, but so freeing in the unrestrained expression of self. I hope that the piece grows with completely random additions from artists, professors, students, the public, and possibly E. Gordon Gee, himself.