Artist Interview: Johanna Cando

Bing Bang

Water color in paper

DREAM

Water color in paper 

Stone Flower

Pen on paper

           Johanna is a creative and capable artist well trained in a wide array of artistic mediums. Her passion for art began in elementary school where she loved painting and drawing.  She has a degree in Fine Arts and is currently pursuing a Bachelor degree in Studio Art and Art History while designing living frames for an interior design company. 

          Johanna was born in Ecuador, but New York has been her hometown for the past decade. Suprematist artist such as El Lissitzky and Kasimir Malevich have influence the majority of her work.

          Each peace contains abstract forms performed in different techniques such us cross-hatching and stippling, using ink, charcoal and water color. Shapes and lines are deliberately created for the viewer to experiment with their personal feelings in connection with the artwork. 

         She has been an inspiration to me. I feel she has grown into the world of art but more importantly is that she tries to express her passion, her message through her art. She is a strong woman who always fights for what she wants and so I'm proud to be the brother of such talented person.

DAVID SMITH: CUBES AND ANARCH

At the Whitney Museum are presenting a fresh look at the work of the great American sculptor David Smith (1906–1965). Cubes and Anarchy reveals the artist’s iconic late masterpieces to be continuations of his long-standing explanation of geometric. 



Walking straight through to the end of the room in the fourth - floor, I find myself in the third section that exhibits three rare sketchbooks covering a great deal of brainstorming and concepts from 1933 to 1954. The sketchbooks pages are marked with pencil and pen. One sketchbook shows notations written by Smith in 1951, "Research, Joan Carter, Time, Rockefeller Center, NY20". Providing an insight into his thoughts, methods and inspirations. At the very end of the space stands the most interesting and delicately flat piece called 17 H’s, 1950. Playing with his driven concept “drawing in space”, Smith creates the painted steel piece by using 17 letter H’s. A sculpture that is abstract and resembles the unreadable language of a musical note or can also be seen as a configuration of little chairs organized in different levels.


The exhibition is organized with ample space between sculptures, encouraging the viewer to absorb the magnitude that each piece of art. I had the privilege to examine the welded steel and the simplified geometric forms from 360 degrees. There have been many major exhibitions around the world honoring this talented artist of Geometric abstraction. The Whitney Museum has frequently shown David Smith’s collection, giving the public access to study and admire his unique geometric art form.

Work Cited

Scan, Cat. "Alexander Adler: Constraining Cubes, Harnessing

Anarchy, and the Genius of David Smith." Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post. Web. 02 Dec. 2011. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alexander-adler/exhibition-spotlight-davi_b_997466.html>.

"Exhibitions - David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy." Wexner Center

for the Arts. Web. 02 Dec. 2011. <http://wexarts.org/ex/index.php?eventid=6089>.

9/11 Memorial

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is the principal memorial and museum commemorating the September 11 attacks of 2001.The memorial is located at the World Trade Center site, on the former location of the Twin Towers destroyed during the attacks.
We were allowed to walk among hundreds of white oak trees on the eight-acre site and gaze at the water on the exact spots where the World Trade Center's twin towers stood. We were also being able to run our fingers over the names of the 2,977 people killed in the terrorist attacks in New York. 
But what moved me and got my attention were that many visitors made pencil-and-paper rubbings of the names to take back home. Others sat on benches or clustered for photos. Some people cried; others embraced. Some left flowers or stuffed messages into the letters.
For the most people around the world, the images that we remember from this site are very difficult. It's the recovery period; it's seeing those images of the towers falling. So after 10 years of this massacre, we come on now and see this place that's been transformed into a place of beauty. 

Work Cited

Steffen, Sheila. "September 11 Memorial Debuts in New York –

CNN." Featured Articles from CNN. 12 Sept. 2011. Web. 02 Dec. 2011. <http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-12/us/world.trade.center_1_terror-attack-architect-michael-arad-memorial-plaza?_s=PM:US>.

"Bad" Drawing!!

Art resource = African Mask 

Fantastic Content = Angel

Non - Art Resource = Key

Paint Still Life

New York is a city full of culture. so I chose a shoe that means fashion and style that the city develops. The sign of music represents the movement and wit of its essence creating harmony among people. Brushes is the art that you can find in this city as an expression of liberation and finally the Brooklyn Bridge which is the force that holds this union.

Three Eggs!!!!

To draw the three eggs and make a composition with contemporary objects was not a problem, but when I started painting it, it took a little work to make the shadows and shades of gray between objects.  Seeing my painting come to life and express the light from these objects is what i liked the most from this assigment.

MOMA PS1: 9/11 Exhibition

George Segal's "Woman on a Park Bench" (1998) sits calmly at the head of Roger Hiorns's "Untitled" (2006).

MOMA PS1 has created an exhibition about the September 11 attacks. In this gallery you can find everything from photographs, paintings, sculptures related to this attack. One of the most impressive was George Segal's sculpture "woman on a park bench" (1998). Here you can see how the woman is looking at the ashes that remained of the twin towers and the people who made it out alive from this attack. Segal died a year before the attacks. His sculpture existed 3 years before “everything changed.” And yet both artist and art seem perfectly apt for the occasion. The woman in white seated on a bench could have been one of the survivors who fled the clouds of debris racing through the streets. We see her frozen in a moment of respite. Segal’s Woman on a Park Bench could be one of those victims in the moment of resignation, taking the time to put her affairs in order.