Sunday in the Art Room (SITAR)

 Welcome to  

 

SITAR is about ANYTHING art. Your art, someone else's art, writing, photography, the art of cooking, the art of sewing and textiles. Sharing historical art, street art, a story about art. Do you have a question or need help with art? Write a blog post and link it up here. We will all try to help with it. My only rule is that if someone asks for critique it must be done with generosity and consideration. This is a place of learning, encouragement and inspiration. 

 

Before I get started yesterday Mr. M. and I celebrated 46 years together. 

Wow! That went by so fast.  

  

Now for SITAR. 

 

Today I want to introduce Marjorie Strider. Pop Artist

 

When we think about Pop Art the names that come to mind are Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein. Women Pop Artists remained behind the scenes,  for one single reason.  The art scene of the time promoted the myth of the male "artist-as-genius," sidelining women into the periphery of galleries and museums. Art critics often trivialized female perspectives. As art historian Lucy Lippard noted, male artist making work about the kitchen or household items was seen as pioneering Pop Art. Where as women doing similar art was dismissed as "cute" or domestic.

 

Marjorie Strider was born in Guthrie, OK. January 26, 1931 

Marjorie knew at a young age exactly what she wanted to do and that was to make art. Later in her life in an interview she stated. 

"I never wanted to be anything but an artist." 

Girl with the radish 

 

She pursued her passion formally by studying art at Oklahoma State University and the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree. After college Marjorie did moved to Knasas City and spent two years designing creative commercial window displays for the Robinson Shoe Company. She said this experience helped her hone her understanding of spatial design and three-dimensional forms.

Tierra del Fuego, 1982 Mixed media sculpture with aluminum, acrylic, glitter and sequins.

216x140cm   Galerie Gmurzynska 

 

As Marjorie began creating large instillations she moved to using  urethane foam.

This medium allowed her to cast much lighter, bulbous, and free-flowing organic shapes—such as oozing liquids or exaggerated anatomical features—that could protrude multiple feet out from the wall.

 

 

Installation view of the exhibition "Marjorie Strider: Tower Project" at the Clocktower

February 26 - March 13, 1976. MoMA PS1 Archives, I.A.50. The Museum of
Modern Art Archives, New York. INPS1.46.2. Photograph by Jonathan Dent.
 

In 1957, she moved to New York City. By the early 1960s, she grew incredibly bored with traditional, flat canvas painting. To break the monotony, she began experimentations she called "build-outs" attaching wood, cardboard, and Styrofoam to her paintings so the imagery literally burst out into the room. This unique hybrid of painting and sculpture caught the attention of the mainstream art world and launched her into the legendary 1960s Pop Art scene.

 

 

Marjorie  applied her artistic concepts to everyday consumer goods and nature. She crafted oversized pieces, like structural radishes and asparagus stalks rising off the dark backgrounds. 

Venetian blinds buckled and warped by flowing blue matter and Coca Cola cans pouring out thick solid waves of pink foam. Through these build-outs, she humorously attacked the male-dominated status quo of Pop Art. She actively changed how viewers interacted with space and form.  

In 1964, Pace Gallery, in New York, set up and exhibit with Marjorie alongside Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The landmark exhibition titled, "The First International Girlie Show" opened in January. The group show was highly coordinated, tongue-in-cheek artistic statement that brought together 10 prominent Pop artists to explore the theme of the American pin up girl. 

 

Instead of being overshadowed, Strider actually became the standout star of the show.

Strider's comically provocative build-out painting, Girl with Radish, was chosen by the gallery as the official banner and marketing image for the entire exhibition. 
While the male artists were painting pin-ups from a position of voyeurism, Strider used her 3D "build-outs" to push the women's physical features into the viewer's space—satirizing the sexual objectification of women and aggressively confronting the male gaze. 

The show was an immense critical and media success, heavily covered by television and newspapers. It solidified Pace Gallery's presence in New York and launched Strider's career, leading directly to two subsequent solo exhibitions for her at the gallery. 

 

Marjorie had a highly successful and prolific 50 year career, though its trajectory followed a path common to many pioneering female artist of her generation.  

 Marjorie Strider died on August 27, 2014 at the age of 83.  

I hope you enjoyed meeting Marjorie.

 

That's it for now.

 

I will be joining Gillena  

It's time to show me your art. 

Nicole 

 

Friday Face OFF Oct. 1

 

Welcome To Friday Face OFF (FFO)

This is the place to show off your face art.

You know, ANY type of face, nature, the face of a flower, photography, drawings, paintings, AI. There just needs to be a face in your blog post, a link back to my blog and please use the image below. 

Thank you.

Happy Friday Everyone!

I seriously can't believe how fast my days are going by. I've been very busy with my special order and did get it finished. I will deliver it tomorrow. This is my face for the week.

 

Neither fully dead nor truly alive, the she-cat belonged to the hollow spaces in between. They had buried her anyway.  Soon she gnawed her way out of the earth, rising with graveyard dirt caked on her face, paws and clinging to the sparse fur she had left. 

 

 

Putrid secretions hardened into thick strands over her lips, cementing her jaw and preventing her from closing her mouth. 

 

She now drifts through the midnight hours, a witness to the ghosts crossing between worlds, searching the shadows for a single gateway back to the waking world.

 

My next face is this guy. He has a long way to go before he is finished.

 

I cut his teeth out so I can mold a dead mouth and make my own teeth for him.

 

 

 This is the first layer of paint. I will show you what he looks like when he is done.  

 

 Last but not least, because I have several more projects going on in my art room, is this lovely. His lower jaw was missing, completely destroyed in the catastrophic car accident. Deep in the swamps, investigators finally found his skull resting right beside the rusted, sunken wreckage of the car he had been driving.

 

 

I also removed his teeth to mold and replace them with better ones. Actually with dead teeth. LOL

 

Those are my faces for today. Now it's time to see a few features. 

 

Essentially Ash  

 

Lisca 

That's it for now 

Don't miss

Sunday in the Art Room.

 

I will be joining Gillena  

 

Now it's time to show my your face.

Nicole

T Tuesday

 

 Hi Everyone!

 Today is Tuesday and that means a day with Elizabeth and Bleubeard.

 

I really can't believe a week has gone by. I guess I've just been busy. 

I took some left over beans.  

 

Discarded the liquid and set them aside.  

 

I still had some meat mixture from last weeks meat rolls. I started to heat this up. 

 

Added the beans. 

 

With some spicy herbs and rotel 

 

I grated some cheese and I started making burritos.

 

After they were all rolled up I placed them on a sheet and put them into the freezer for several hours. 

Once that's done I take and wrap them in plastic wrap and then foil.  

 

Label and date them and now they are ready for those nights we don't want to cook. 

 

One night I made veggies and rice. I don't care for white rice so a few tablespoons is good for me. 

 

Tonight I made nachos for dinner.  

  

I watched a youtube where the lady made chocolate cherry dump cake. I've never made a dump cake before but thought this would be good for my monthly gathering.

Now unless you want to go into a sugar coma, I do not recommend this. You can see I took a small bite. The girls loved it but no me. Plus not good for Mr. M. I cut the recipe in half. 

I took 1 can of cherry pie filling and poured it into a small baking dish.  I weighed out half of a chocolate cake mix and spread it over the cherries.

As directed I cut pieces of butter and laid them on top of the cake mix. Bake at 350°F 176°C and bake for 40 minutes. Or until the cherries are bubbling up around the cake. Let it cool completely. Like I said, get ready for a sugar high. 

 

My drink for this week is a treat for me.

 Have a good Tuesday 

Nicole

Monster Monday with some art

 Welcome to 

 

I have a special order that I'm creating for a local doctor. She loves cats, is very much into monster art and I'm happy to be creating this. Here is the cat so far. 

It's a dead she cat 

I have the muscle laid in and starting on dead skin. 

Her backside.  

 

Some good muscle and tendons.  

Neck muscles.  

 

 

Each layer has to dry so I have 3 other skulls in the works.  

I also made a caldron for my front porch.  Got it at the $$ store.

 

I sanded it then painted it with a sand medium. I wanted some texture on it. 

 

Then I painted it black.  

 

I painted the outside so it looked a bit rusty. Then I filled it with Fomo.

 

Painted it witchy green with some shading. 

 

Then added bloody burnt skeleton hands I made and some smaller plastic hands that I painted.

 

 Remember when I showed you these shoes I got for $2.00 at the thrift store? They went from this.

 

To this 

 

To this.

 

To these witches shoes ready for flying.  

 

Just because I'm in a witchy mood.

 

Here are some cute witches.

 

 

That's it for now have a great Monday.

Nicole