Artist Talk: New Arts Space. Terri Warpinski, David Graham

I love how Terri Warpinski's concept about "A place to escape" and how she didn’t provide much meanings on the motifs of her works. She mentioned about Robert Rauschenberg and Betty Hahn's work as examples for some of her inspirations for her works and I think it is very excited to learn more about more artists or art works as sources that could be inspiring for my own works. 

I was also impressed by her presentations of her early works in the Dark room, and how she represent her works as the combination of the photography and painting. I really like one of her works "From the series Fragments: Winter Solstice, Sunrise/Moonset Zabriskie Point, 1989" and "Ripple Effect, Smyth and Bybee Lakes, 2000", which is a really good example for demonstrating the flexibility of new media art. 

In general, her art includes various elements including religion, nature, video art, environmental photography, and installation art, such as two of my favorite works "Arava Desert along the Jordanian Border, November 2000. 2000." and "From LandMarks: Crosses US- Mexico border. January 2009." I feel very comfortable with the connection to nature in her work and feel at one with the world. There is also some historical and political integration in her work, such as the exploration and narrative of national borders, such as the US-Mexico border, the Israeli road border, East and West Germany, and the Berlin Wall.

David Graham's work is more focused on the overall structure of the image, and I like the concept of the so-called "traces of the times" that he emphasizes in his work the most. For example, "Looking North on Broadway, De Pere circa 1920".