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Edwin VanGorder
Works in Madison, Wisconsin United States of America

BIO
VanGorder's work has been exhibited in group and solo show accross the US including Sonia Zaks Gallery in Chicago, The State Administration building for the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Pauahi Gallery in Hawaii, Oakwood Nursing Home in Madison,Gwathmey/Siegel architects in NY, OK Harris graduate show for Parsons and 2 successive group shows at Parsons after graduation
Vans work begins with brush drawings photographed in near environments then integrated to the computer using the scrolling theme shared between a a drawing improvisation out of Asian timber framing and computer generative process.
The works often have a source in book art which can be found at the link on resume. The www.drawingontrope.com site for his works contains more imagery and text in the blog section.
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DISCUSSION

Rates Of Return


What emerges consistantly in all these experiments and ephemera of yours and mine are the transposals of experience upon organization. On the mythos level shades of Jim Morrison the scheme of day people or night people mint the coinagle already where perhaps the genius of day blossoms on Corots morning or perhaps the humors and travels of the day are conversely realized upon the graceful night. You know who you are.
It intrigues me that digital works are prone to rifs and covers via the origins of electronic music, and that is a good thing that needn't be totally lost in original ideas.
Art Narrative Image 1"
Since much classic imagery stems from the act of reconstitution prepared by placing animal skins back over the sacrificial bones and since for example Corot like painting that reconstitutes the world does so on canvas flesh over stretcher bones and likewise videos of unboxing are a rif I return to via the idea of using a golden section grid and placing the skin of images through the sections in a way that stretches them by dimension... and the image in a sense becomes a rate of return or the measure of change a system sustains ...
Art Narrative Image 2
Or one could set an imagery of sculptural reveals sunk and rising from vestibular veins and pace vision to interframings of photography in different time line modes and then will show in use of digital rythms the drawing that displace push and pull to different names.

DISCUSSION

Required Reading


Thanks for this post... for a while I have been working with the idea for creating diverse shows stemmimf from a flagship concept of "tropentropy" to coin a phrase and this project of the articles note really gives enormous insight into those potentials.
Thanks-
Van

DISCUSSION

Required Reading


The observation on ritualistic unpacking reminds me of The Lost Meaning Of Classical Architecture by George Hersey in which he regards the origins of much of our classic ornament as deriving from animal sacrifices in which the hide was reconstituted over bones as an act of propriation to spirits, and from this he devolopes an etymology for the word trope... the significance for art being obviously that painting of canvas skin on stretcher bones reconstituting the world -were a first siting of the idea of the herm or garlands to spoils or statues that symbolized art attitudes within art....at a time...
But I think more likely the box represents the subconsious, that as Freud put it the "subconsious is like a person not master of their house" No one really knows what is in the box. The first Architectural show on deconstructionism at the Moderm featured many models by the diverse architects that used wrapping paper to symbolize I suppose the packaging process that accrues to "reading " imagery.... divestiture of intellectual baggage and creation of cultural architects and artifacts are an odd trimarine....

DISCUSSION

Self Possession Of The Devil : Glory Of Formalism


Technologies of emerging practice interrupt formalist tendencies and that is all to the good as far as that goes and is politically correct ...yet in observing the formula- human interest curating good, artistic ivy tower elitism bad, I enjoy in Rhizome a more balanced and would enjoy as much an even more balanced reporting on the broader scales of interest that play into the spectrum inclusive of (horrors-gasp) formalism. The recent article on Mungo Thomson succeeded in a very funny way although possibly by accident but I will resume to that...
I worked running prints for some time at Gwathmey Siegel Architects ("definitely" formalists and their mantra is "design development")For National Blue print (Rauschenberg had the same job, did some experiments with the paper and was famous, I tried a few things on the paper and was practically arrested) and the kickoff architectural show at the time and at the Museum Of Modern Art was I think called Decontructist Architects and Eisenman in particular was awesome. The context for deconstructionism was presented in the context of many of the architects working with wrapping paper the idea being the packaging of imagery that is our modality for better or worse or worser as the singer puts it...

More currently an article in the British drawing zine/site Tracey proposes more "spit" in drawing digitally for example , meaning inner conluence or identification to "the mysterious fluide of life" as it were... and bringing I suppose closer to the digital surface the worn color sense of Tibetan prayer flags and such....
I see in my minds eye a not so hypothetical artist I call Quaker Oats who realizes the appeal of older imager but modifies the way it comes accross so it makes it to the contemporary visualiztion zone of comfort and likewise ages the look of contemporary modes to give the middle ground zone of comfort...the middle class adores him....nothing wrong with that, in their better moment they used to adore Morandi- no thats not true Morandi is an artist's artist I almost forgot.... somehow I see an 18 century comedy of manners but at the constume ball one person is dressed in contemporary coat and tie and is talking about oil spills and a few "capital ideas".... Anyway- could a new formalism find genuine energy without going fascist? I definde formalism as resolving approaches to philosophic concentration and the love of knowledge that is more than just love of technology.
The recent article on Mungo Thomson in Rhizome which concerns a very old school conceptualist approach on Thomson's part similar to Asher in its sympathy for formalist inspiration discloses Thomson's approach of husing dust largely human cells that settle to celluloid when he invents the video negative and the dust of the archive environment that has gathered....anyway its a kind of gentle cannibalizing of Morandi's dust...People often miss the point that Thomson is making enormous fun of the often fatuously espoused principle of human context per deconstructionist mores while also staying very serious and true to his principle of editing which is what I mean by old school... for example his project to edit the Road Runner from the landscapes that enclose him or Art Forum articles from the advertisements that surround them ("cut to the chase and quick") the project being perhaps a Quaker Oats mix of Morandi and Roadrunner....

DISCUSSION

The Varieties Of Experience (2008) - Mungo Thomson


The fact that dust (of interiors) is largely human skin helps explain why some Yogis can live off of air perhaps, it is a gentle cannablism as is the borrowing of Morandis dust by Thompson....


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Metatropic Devolution : How does a Rhizome Excavate No-Space?


How does a rhizome excavate no-space? Chiefly through overwriting i.e. the Buddhas tree is transplanted and so is the philosophy or a single Banyan trunk spreads to become an entire forest of which the original cant be detected from the overwriting, or in animal behavior porcupines flare their quills in  herd setting each other off in a ripple  or in human behavior Aeschylus describes signal fires lit from Island to Island…

No space is the emblematic removal of a visible ground of events, replaced by a blank slate- the Minimilist for example dropped out the backgrounds of the photos of their sculpture, whereas  Brancusi, the first artist to insist on photogrphing his own work in its studio context , exlusively at his handiwork, while keeping the studio as intact as possible was the opposite impulse that authored the corolary. Therefore an abstract of the present work would take into account the elision of ground in cyber drawing to be something more like alluding to the sound of a slide guitar which overwrites specific key. Along the way the computer “button becomes different thant the pictorial “block” and “tiling” is different than pattern.

Description: the work plays with and overwrites into the idea of a cornea as reflective of visualization itself and thus a meta-tropic devolution out of which the chambering of the eye and a link of reflex and reflection to cortical integration keyed to over all psychic phenomena form a basis to lead tiling as an interrupting of history via perception paired with an internal view or far vision brought to surface , like looking into someones eyes. The tiling was formed on tilted arcs of Asian carpentry cognates which receding into a detail status emerge very differently when the overwriten is subtracted through the very process of overwriting.


Adze Quarry Basin


  Has the feeling of the Hawaiian Adze Quarry on Mauna Kea…prodigious chips flaked  and half formed stone  adzes , local culture children given Asian puzzle balls- interlocking units used in ancient carpentry to build without nails… the ideas combine in the abstract loop I insert into the cyber sleeve and a reflection as well on Holymeaumeau- crater dug by meteorite below the slopes of the volcanic craters, the moon itself most likely the carved out mass extracted from the Pacific Basin…


I Am Not a Burial Mound


Given the apples you did not eat may not have been mine nor any of them  belong yet to any entity but knock around the art of old New York this is a monument for Little Italy where it no longer exists Our Lady Of Pompeii must practice patience for the moment to moment… Sincerely  Yours: Outline Of An Apple…


Suspension Matrix of Visual Psychology Colloids


The gaze is never really locked into the surface- rather it spends a fair amount of time suspended between the vectors of intuitions that incorporate visual focus and scan to bodily orientation and spatial dynamic trinamic or kin. The material, fluid, gas dispersion of particles in physics of elemental situation is complicated in cyber space to a spectrum domain where visuality arrives through the sleeve of scroll space queue that no longer is really a surface upon arrival but rather a matrix of electric cells.

Ther-e fore the tiling I use are actually pictures condensed and represent a symbolizing process of  the number of times the gaze “carries” And what does it carry? What is in the package?


What Happens to a Mirror In a Rhizome Structure?


  Description: The work states surface tension by caontrasting an embossing functon with the “live” field which states to the “button” edges.

Abstract: the embossed field as a quotation of printing creates a mirror, and a rotating mirror as well. These element in so contrasting place events to a devolving of mirror to mirror that reprsents the intuitive dynamics the idea of rhizome symbolizes in and of itself.

 


How Does Recreation State Within Rhizome?


Description: The work introduces interruption within the button field that separates looping elements through a variety of means that include distortion, marking, color, cantilever and offset.

Abstract: The iidea of the work is to keep finding different angles to the idea of a loop.  iN general a rhizome is a state that can be reproduced in terms linking abstraction to human activity as recreational including the famous rules of the game of formalism. The non material status of rhizome makes game rules a different mode however, because it is generally a state of overwriting…


What are Marked and Unmarked Forms in a Rhizome Status?


Description: The drawing appears replete with marking and leaves open space and button bevels to reflect in grey and whit on the eventsof marking across the spectrum.  Some forms are drawing with a haptic touch others are consequential to misusing a border device to essentially draw with…

Abstract: This is an example of cyber “logic , the use of a non-marking software to excavate a path is a non marking, while the use of distortion upon drawing elements subtract the element of original intent.  Marking thus both exists as such, but also has a kind of reverse mirror.

 


What Happens to Formalism and Rules of the Game In Rhizome World of Nomadic Nomads?


Description: The work plays with kinetic sculpture feeling by placing transparent and opaque maninulations of matrix elements in the virtual sculpture realm of the computer button.  The forms have a compression of pattern and a haptic drawing sensibility combined to generate a contradictory field to sorting.

Abstract: The early ideas of building sculpture oan a skeleton that opens up that frame to an environment of transparency depends on a material comparison of form to  form as evidenced in early kinetic environment artists like Jesus Soto or Nicholas Scjhopffer.  Howecer in this drawing those ideas meet the contradictory reality of cyber space in which the object becomes its own subject an subjec its own object to afford then the relief elements of a moment to moment realization to metamorphosis and meta levels simultaneously.


Can Rhizome Structure Afford “Site/Non Site ?


Description : The computer button is offsetby sriping ( and in fact also created by it)  while the  color space in relation to stripes  offsets line and mass as mirrored in  haptic drawing function shown in a very minor key.

Abstract: The Site/Non Sit idea of Smithson invites a reevaluation of how formalism functions in cyber art: is it the same?  My feeling ti that the meta levels of the computer art work are embedded to zones rather than sites , but have  a comparable sense of intersting psychic distance.  owever the distance also from physicality posits space itself to metamorphosis within means.  This Deleuzian idea as it encounters information theory alters the original sense of visual psychology to a transformative neurological model of bodily presence within the encompassing visual continuum which as Gustav Metzger said means ” the artist’s entire viual field becomes the work of art”,