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Extra Credit Event 2: Jeanine Oleson

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For my second extra credit blog I visited Jeanine Oleson’s exhibit at the Hammer Museum. Her art exhibit is open from May 6 th to August 6 th 2017. Oleson as an artist is interested in the problem of labor. The language and gender of artists from her generation is unstable. Oleson is infatuated with certain materials like copper, clay, transmission, and conduction and their transformation through process.             The name of her exhibition is Conduct Matters. Oleson is interested in copper itself as an elemental material of great my stery and also a product of late capitalism’s enterprise. The video displayed in the exhibit hints on how late capitalism has isolated workers and disconnected them from nature and the land.             I am going to give the description of both my interpretations from the exhibit and then the explanation of what it is really about. My interpretation of the exhibit is completely different from the real meaning behind the exhi
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Extra Credit Event 1: Judith Hopf

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I chose to attend the Hammer museum for this extra credit event. I attended Judith Hopf’s exhibit. She is a German artist that moved to Germany right after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her art represents certain movements in the long history of the medium, such as the portrayal of the body in ancient statuary or the impact of American Minimalism. Hopf’s art frequently consists of supplies one would find in a hardware store such as concrete, rebar, plywood, clay, and bricks. For example the art in her exhibit at the Hammer contained bricks and concrete and other materials that can be bought from a hardware store.               Hopf’s artwork and sculptures were placed in a room with a big glass door at the opening with tall ceilings and white walls. The floor was concrete, which goes with her theme of raw materials. The majority of the sculptures in the exhibit were made of brick and if not they were still made with construction like materials. The art was on the ground, on the walls
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Week 9: Space + Art

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Science flourished throughout the European Renaissance and continued into the 17 th century with the invention of a telescope that could observe the planets in space. Such fascination with space lead to exploration that remains pertinent in present day. Courtesy of:  https://www.wired.com/2011/06/the-arabick-roots-of-science-and-their-fruit-to-come/ The launch of Sputnik in 1957 started the intense space race between the United States and Russia. This would change America and the World forever and spread paranoia over Americans. Soon after animals were sent into space. Russia was the first by sending a dog into space, however the dog was not brought back to earth due to its death 6 days into he trip because of a failed living apparatus. Next the USA put a chimpanzee into space, an animal most similar to humans. Russia yet again beat the United States again by putting the first man in space for a 108-minute flight. A month later the USA put the
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