Edith Garcia

"My work is influenced by everyday life as well as by growing up in a society that uses the hybridization of humans throughout its history". I think that Edith Garcia's work would be relevant to Amy's work as she in her own sense is making her own "Contemporary monsters" with her human and animal forms like Edith's.
 
"For me my work is a way to record my unique individual experiences throughout my lifetime, depicting everyday occurrences and past experiences, addressing contemporaneous issues specific to the human condition". Amy might like this quote as she likes to express her quirky personality through her work, for some of her figures are quite humorous a reflection of her personality which is what Garcia also represents in her work in many ways.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contemporary Monsters exhibition, 2009.

Fearless, 2006.

Scott Rench



Interactive play.



Destiny, a look at my life, 1996.

Everyone wants it.



Searching.



I think this artist’s work has very little similarity to the work of my peers as it is very rich in colour, imagery and text. Rench does not give an artist’s statement but you can see that his work is heavily linked to life’s experiences and familiarities and it almost gives off a web/internet connection feel to it.

Lindsay Pichaske

What separates human from animal? What borders exist between the real and the imagined, the beautiful and the repugnant, the living and dying, the creator and the made?

 

 



Low-fire ceramic, artifical flower petals, oil paint, milk paint, 2010.

Human hair, thread, sweing needles, 2010.

Low-fire ceramic, human hair, oil paint, 2010.

I think that Lindsay Pichaske’s work is hugely relative to the work Dominic and Amy are creating. In Dominic’s case her words “What separates Human from animal” reminded me of the inequality of the whales and the respect they are ignored of and when she questions “What borders exist between the real and the imagined, the beautiful and the repugnant, the living and dying, the creator and the made” I am reminded of Amy’s work because she has broken this boundary of human and animal, of real and imaginary in her pieces of animal/human form.