Ed Pien, Haven
Ed Pien, Haven
Ed Pien, A Very Big Bird
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Who is Ed Pien?
Ed Pien is an artist that mostly does work with paper. He creates large scale installations that are finely and masterfully created from hand-cut and tinted paper. He then displays these in such a way that the room often appears transformed into a completely different space.
For more information about the artist:
>> www.pfoac.com
>> www.ccca.ca
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More about Haven
Haven: a safe place, a place of refuge, sanctuary. It is a highly desired space and for many, this site seems virtually unattainable.
The installation does not pretend to create a space that promises to offer such protection and solace. Instead it is an invitation to reflect on the need for such spaces to exist -- given the fact that many parts of the world are besieged by unrelenting upheaval and violence. |
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Installation Art
Installation art means that a space is transformed by an artwork. A painting hanging on a wall or a sculpture on a pedestal is not an installation. With installation, the room or space is not simply a place to display or hang artwork. Rather, the artwork uses the space to help create the desired effect.
For more on
installation art, check out these websites!
>> wikipedia
>> artlex
 Ed Pien, Night Gathering
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Gord Peteran
A Table Made of Wood
Various woods
31 x 37 x 14 in.
Lent by the artist
Gord Peteran
Ark
Stained oak, metal, velvet, glass, electrical cord
72 x 42 x 25 in.
Lent by the artist
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Who is Gord Peteran?
Gord Peteran is an artist living and working in Toronto, Ontario. He is a furniture designer, but many of his pieces are not furniture in the traditional sense. He uses his furniture as a means of playing with the idea of what we consider furniture and what we consider art (or what we consider to be both). He works with wood.
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>> Click here for a display of some of Gord Peteran's work
Want to see more?
Head to Google Images and search for “furniture design”
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The exhibition Gord Peteran: Furniture Meets its Maker is called a traveling exhibition because all the pieces are moving around to different museums. It will be visiting 6 museums in total. Can you use the internet to find out which ones? (we’re one of them!) |
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The Artwork
Most furniture has a function; a chair is for sitting in, and a table is for putting objects on it. Gord Peteran’s asks the question - what if someone made a table that didn’t hold objects or a chair not made for sitting? Would these still count as furniture? What do you think?
Gord likes to push the envelope on what people usually call furniture. He makes objects that are “furnitural” to use his own word - meaning many of his pieces are somewhere in-between the worlds of furniture and sculpture. He has a piece that folds up into a rifle case for example, and another piece closely resembles a seesaw.
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Dinh Q. Lê
Untitled, 2006 (detail)
C-Print and linen tape
33 ¼ x 66 ½ in.
Collection of Philip Sofaer
Photo: Dan Kvitka Photography, Portland
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Dinh Q. Lê
Mot Coi Di Ve (Spending One’s Life Trying to Find One’s Way Home), 2005 (detail)
Found black-and-white photographs, thread, and linen tape
120 x 240 in.
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Dinh Q. Lê
Crossing Paths (The Headless Buddha), 1997
C-Print and linen tape
19 ½ x 72 ½ in.
Collection of Swedish Medical Center, First Hill
Photo: Richard Nicol
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Who is Dinh Q. Lê?
Dinh Q. L ê is an artist. He was born in Vietnam in the village of Ha Tien in 1968. He and his family left Vietnam in 1979 and moved to Los Angeles California. There he went to college at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he studied art. He began to look at the Vietnam War and used that as a source of inspiration for his artwork. He noticed how many films had been made about the Vietnam War and began to weave images from these films with real images from the war. Now Dinh Q. L ê lives in Vietnam again because he loves the culture and the connection the country has to his ancestors.
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What is a Tapestry?
Tapestry: (noun) thick fabric in which colored weft threads are woven to form pictures or designs
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Weaving
Weaving is all over! It is how many articles of clothing are made and how Dinh Q. Lê makes his woven photographs. Weaving is made of two parts: Weft and Warp.
>> Check out this Wikipedia explanation and picture to show more about weaving!
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The Artwork
Check out these links to find out more about Dinh Q. Lê’s artwork:
>> artnet
>> Moira Roth Article
>> Elizabeth Leach Gallery
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Vietnam
Vietnam is located in Southeast Asia, just south of China. It is a tropical climate and tends to be quite warm there.
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Vietnam/American War
Two sides to everything.
Did you know that if you lived in Vietnam, the same war we call the Vietnam War you would call the American War?
The United States sent its first combat troops Vietnam in 1965. (before this war, Vietnam had been divided in 1954 North Vietnam and South Vietnam). Over the next several years, more and more American troops were sent to the country and fighting began. In 1973, the United States removed its troops from the country. Two years later, the last Americans left Vietnam as Saigon and South Vietnam fell under the control of North Vietnam.
58,200 American soldiers lost their lives during the fighting in Vietnam. Over 200,000 South Vietnamese soldiers lost their lives. Many more Vietnamese civilians also died during the fighting.
To learn more:
>> www.pbs.org
>> wikipedia
>> Watch video clips about the Vietnam War
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Russel Wright
Interior view of Russel Wright¹s home, Dragon Rock, designed in 1956 by David Leavitt, AIA: Dining area with kitchen to the left.
Photo by Masca, courtesy Manitoga, Inc./Russel Wright Design Center.
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Who is Russel Wright?
Russel Wright was one of America’s most influential designers. Before modern day designers and decorators were part of the mainstream, Russel Wright’s table ware, serving pieces and furniture were found in homes across the U.S.
Find out more about Russel Wright:
>> wikipedia
>> modfather
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About the work
This exhibition is called Living with Good Design. It is a traveling exhibition that is moving around the country.
To learn more about the exhibition visit:
>> www.livingwithgooddesign.org
>> Pictures of the exhibition at its different locations
>> More of Russel Wright's works
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Design
A designer is a person who designs or creates things. There are many types of designers in the world. Some common types of design are industrial, graphic, interior, fashion, and game.
>> Industrial Design
>> Graphic Design
>> Fashion Design
>> Interior Design
>> Game Design
>> A Russel Wright designed center in New York |
