September 31, 2015
Again, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted but a lot has
happened.
In May, I was invited to teach a class on Collage and Digital Bricolage at the
Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in Wuhan, China.
I had been to Wuhan in February for one week to work on a design project
for the Wuhan Metro system with the HIFA Cultural Corporation that is a design
corporation affiliated with the school.
This time I spent the entire month of May in Wuhan with my fiancé Jaala
and Xiao Han, a graduate student from Wuhan in our MFA program here. Xiao acted as my interpreter, helped organize
things with the school and was a godsend in helping to ensure a successful project
so can’t thank her enough.
I also have to thank Zhang Guanghui, the Dean of Printmaking
and a revered Chinese artist, who is a really cool guy, a great artist and a
very gracious host and Xu Yongmin, the President of HIFA and a well-known
artist. Also Xu Fan, a printmaker who is
the Vice-President of the Institute as well as Zhang Lian, a printmaking
professor who I became friends with while there. These people are all very fine artists and printmakers.
The course, which was the first time I’ve taught it,
couldn’t have gone better. The students
were keen and produced a lot of great work in a short amount of time. I gave a public lecture called Miscellany: The Effect of Collage on
Contemporary Art and it was met with great enthusiasm by the whole school
so I found an appreciative and receptive audience. Students began by making handmade collage
from found elements, then made prints from the scanned collages, then made
digital collage and prints and some made handmade collage from printed digital
collage. As you see here, the students caught
on to the idea of collage very naturally and produced really strong work in a
short amount of time. Some students
indicated that collage had changed everything for them. A final comment by Yi Lin-Jia said it
all: “the whole world is a collage!”
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| Chen Hao digital collage |
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| Deng Di handmade collage |
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| Deng Di handmade collage |
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| Deng Yi digital collage |
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| Gao Minglu handmade collage |
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| Gao Minglu digital collage |
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| Hu Xaioyu digital collage |
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| Lin Chengqui digital collage |
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| Lin Jia Yi digital collage |
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| Lin Jia Yi handmade collage |
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| Wang Yan digital collage |
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| Wang Zhen digital collage |
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| Xu Bin digital collage |
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| Xu Bin handmade collage |
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| Xu Long digital collage |
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| Xu Long digital collage |
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| Yang Xiongjun digital collage |
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| Zhang Bao Yao digital collage |
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| Zhang Ke (Coco) digital collage |
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| Zhou Chu digital collage |
Unfortunately, I don’t have images of all of the work the
students made so can’t show them all but here are most of them.
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