- Exhibition Information.
- Artists: Vida Diaz, Fabiola Sillas, and Madeline Taylor
- Exhibition: Biomorphic Pieces Of Art
- Media: Studio Art
- Gallery: LBSU School Of Art, W. Dutzi
- Websites: They all use instagram
- Fabio Silla’s Instagram: @Rickyyfabii
- Vida Diaz’s Instagram: @Diaz.vida
- Madeline Taylor’s Instagram: @Madeline_S_Taylor
- Madeline Taylor is a senior undergraduate student attending CSULB under the School Of Art. Her pieces of art highly emphasize the use of being a studio artist. A studio artist’s purpose is to draw photographs, paintings, drawings, and sculptures. Her main intention was to highly emphasize the concept of biomorphism as well as to exemplify the importance of it.
2. For the arts of work, it seems that all of their paintings have lines which are consistent. They are a mixture of both light and dark colors. There are mostly light colors which was from mixing oil paint with titanium white paint. The dark colors that were involved was blue, brown, and red – orange. Yes, half of the pieces had straight lines. The photos that had the straight lines were the photos of the human cells and the tweaked version of the entrance of the cave. The other half of the paintings had lines that were jagged. The reason why the bell pepper was jagged was because I saw inconsistencies such as uneven edges of the bell pepper. The seeds also looked like one side was made from circles; yet on the other hand, the seeds on the right looked like dabs of the remaining ink of the white marker. Unlike the pieces of art from the very first artist conversation with Jean Iwohara and Chanmealea Huy, these pieces of art are a lot bigger and I did not have to come as far to see the pieces of art. No, it is not made from black and white because Madeline’s commitment highly involved not using black. Even though Madeline used titanium white, she did not use it directly as a color, but she used it to mix it with other colors to make newer colors. No, there no vivid pastel colors involved. But, there are vivid primary colors involved.
3. Vida’s main focus was to emphasize the form of living things and creatures which can be parts of the respiratory body, plants, fruits, animals, as well as wild animals. For Vida’s main focus, she used a bell pepper to represent the time lapse of the bell pepper, to an extent where no one in the family is going to eat it. Overtime, the bell pepper is gradually getting rotten to the point where it’s natural form will be messed up as well as becoming inedible. When biomorphism is applied, it looks very similar to a human’s heart which it tries very hard to live healthy to live as long as possible. The second focus was cell structures and from living things which was done by Fabiola Sillas. The human cells were very interesting to look at because it gives a visual representation of what actual human cells look like. The healthy cells are red cells that have nothing in them. The black part inside human cells are most likely damaged cells which could be caused by the long term effects of smoking cigarettes daily. It can be seen as if the remaining cells are trying so hard to survive by the absence of smoking. The third idea which was done by Madeline Taylor was to scrap as much information as possible via landscape. For the cave entrance photo, she went to a cave and drew it as she was looking, so that way she can have an idea where it resembles the air flow of the respiratory system. The air flow of the respiratory system is very crucial to a human’s living, which allows blood flow and air to travel in and out of the body.
4. All in all, the whole idea behind biomorphism is to represent the photos or paintings that look very similar to human livings organs such as the heart, lungs, cells, etc. Unfortunately, the concept of biomorphism does not resonate with me because most of my drawings and sketches back then mostly applied to the central idea of what I was enjoying at the moment. Examples of art that resonated with me was drawing of trees, drawing ideas of what I enjoy as well as the sky. Hopefully someday, the way that biomorphism will resonate with me is to represent my fruits or or my property wearing down and starting to break to show that they have a certain lifespan such as electronics, food, clothing and much more things. Therefore, artists combine the logic of life span things into pieces of art to combine the concept of biomorphism as well as other art techniques, which is a very important message to viewers like us.
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