1. Name 2 ideas in Gabriel Orozco’s artistic process:  

1. Gabriel tries to create the unexpected out of familiar materials.

2. One of Gabriel’s ideas behind his artistic process is that installations can be reminders of the subtle beauty of objects that are usually ignored. In the video, Gabriel said that he didn’t have a studio; instead he just walked around the streets where he lived. 

2. What is Ingrid Calame’s artistic process? 

Ingrid Calame did tracings of different things found in the streets, then incorporated them into her projects. 

3. __Materials____ and our __process__ inform our work and are interconnected to create meaning.

4. Name 2 major influences in Ellsworth Kelly’s work?

  1. __interspace of light, space, and color_________

  2. __achitecture________________ 

5. How does Kara Walker’s process and materials connect to the ideas in her work?  

Kara Walker uses a light projector to cast the viewers’ own shadows directly into her silhouetted narratives of African American racial identity. This allows the viewers to engage with her work. She didn’t want a passive viewer. “I wanted to make work where the viewer wouldn’t walk away; he would either giggle nervously, get pulled into history, into fiction, into something totally demeaning and possibly very beautiful.” 

6. What is art methodology? 

Art methodology is the process of studying the effectiveness of a method and reassessing it. This allows art to move forward and continue to change. 

 7. Tony Orrico’s Penwald Drawings are a series of bilateral drawings in which Tony explores the __human body__ as a tool of measurement to inscribe geometries through movement and course.

 8. Name 3 qualities of the artistic process:

  1. concerned with the actual doing and how actions can be defined as an actual work of art 

  2. seeing the art as pure human expression

  3. inherent motivation, rationale, intentionality 

9. In Margarita Cabrera’s collaborative project “Space in Between,” what are some of the artistic processes that she uses that connect to the ideas in her work? 

1.  She used traditional sewing and embroidery techniques from Mexico. This embroidery is used to depict narrative traditions and pop culture from indigenous communities. 

2. It is sewn together out of border patrol uniforms. These uniforms refer “to the role of border patrol officers as protagonists in the American landscape.”

10. Explain how Jonathan Lasker created a justification in painting as having something new to say: 

Jonathan Lasker chose to do something radical or a little disruptive from what we thought of as  painting so as to create a justification in painting as having something new to say.