This project is showing support to gay rights. The brown tones are supposed to be people in a crowd and the sign is a protest sign. The background is painted in watercolor as the rainbow symbolizing support of gay marriage. The splatter paint colors are also rainbow colored. I did this project as a current social issue.
This project is a scarf I crocheted out of yarn. It was completed during class and outside of class on my own time. I like this project because it was simple but hard at the same time. I would change the size of the needle I started with to the size of the needle I ended with. This project is related to me because I made it for my friend.
Sterling was born on an American military base in Bitburg, Germany. His father was American, and his mother was Dutch. Not long after Sterling was born, the family relocated to the United States. Sterling attended Kennard Dale High School in in the rural town of New Freedom, Pennsylvania. After graduation he worked construction in Washington D.C. He attended NASAD accredited art school. From there he relocated to Illinois where he received a BFA from the School of Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. He then moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and attended the MFA program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. When he graduated he worked as a teaching assistant for artist Mike Kelley.
Sterling’s art work includes ceramics, painting, collage, and video. His work is usually presented in large, densely packed installations. They also appear to be scratched, defaced, camouflaged, dirty, and/or splattered. He is said to be one of the most interesting artists to be discovered in the 20th century. His work examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint.
He says that he has multiple different influences and sources including aberrant psychologies (schizophrenia and paranoia), urban gangs and graffiti, hip-hop culture, craft, punk, masculinity, violence, public art, prisons, and waste and consumption. Many different psychologists and books written by psychologists have also been very influential to Sterling.
Overall I think his paintings are very interesting and unique. I’ve never seen another artist express emotion in the way that Sterling does. I think he has had some very traumatic things happen to him in his life and he expresses it through various artworks. I would like to learn more about his interest in psychology and different mental disorders.
Sterling’s art work includes ceramics, painting, collage, and video. His work is usually presented in large, densely packed installations. They also appear to be scratched, defaced, camouflaged, dirty, and/or splattered. He is said to be one of the most interesting artists to be discovered in the 20th century. His work examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint.
He says that he has multiple different influences and sources including aberrant psychologies (schizophrenia and paranoia), urban gangs and graffiti, hip-hop culture, craft, punk, masculinity, violence, public art, prisons, and waste and consumption. Many different psychologists and books written by psychologists have also been very influential to Sterling.
Overall I think his paintings are very interesting and unique. I’ve never seen another artist express emotion in the way that Sterling does. I think he has had some very traumatic things happen to him in his life and he expresses it through various artworks. I would like to learn more about his interest in psychology and different mental disorders.