yeah yeah I've not updated this blog in a while I know i've been BUSY
In the meantime I got to briefly (as in super brief) see the commencement show at Mica this year. I'm pretty bummed actually that I didn't get to see more of it, I checked out some of my friends' work, as well as most of the illustration department, but didn't have enough time to see more. They really need to extend the length of the show because two or three days isn't enough at all.
Anyway, I took some photos of the more interesting works I saw, all of which can be found here:
http://zombat.roosteredge.com/mica2009/
I've chosen a couple from the directory just to keep things simple.
this young woman had three different parts to her show, but my favorites were the actor/actress portraits, such as this one. The photo really doesn't do it justice, but it seemed as if the three portraits she did in this style were a more contemporary art nouveau (lol redundant)
This next one was just three awesome monster printouts. Really awesome color, and dynamic posing.
This fellow was just off the wall in general. I wish I had gotten more shots, but as I was seeing the show before work and I didn't want to get yelled at for being TOO late I took about 3 closeups of the rest of his work. I love it!
This young illustrator had an incredible series; a really unique style which might not be the best suited for sequential, but they looked BEAUTIFUL in my opinion anyway.
I played soccer with this young illustrator, who reminds me of Nancy Mueller's work ... hardcore. Her thesis was based around what a child would do with a couple wishes; for instance this one was 'if I could move objects with my mind' ... cool :)
Other notable artists in the illustration department, though I didn't photograph them all, would be Isaac Orloff (who has come a LONG way - his stuff looks great! I couldn't photograph it because the gallery lighting was off for no good reason) Peter Wogstad (the last image in the directory) and Sam Bosma - I enjoyed his black and white work specifically, though the color work was a little bit lacking, by comparison.
Cool stuff
