Artists for the Week

Matthew Barney
-born March 25, 1967 in San Francisco, California. He is a contemporary artist who works with film, video, installations, sculpture, photography, drawing, and performance art. HE says he is primarily a sculptor. He graduated from Yale. His well known film that he created is called Cremaster Cycle. *When I image searched his work, all of the Cremaster Cycles peices came across as very weird.

Bill Viola
-Focuses primarily on video art; one of todays leading artists. He recieved his BFA in Experimental Studios from Syracuse University in 1973. He know lives in Long Beach, VA, where he is still a contemporary video artist. Bill grew up in Queens, NY, attended Syracuse University. He deals mainly with the central themes of human consciousness and experience (birth, death, love, emotion, and a kind of humanist spirituality) He has drawn ideas from Zen Buddhism, Christian Mysticism, and Islamic Sufism. Bill likes to work a lot with emotions. He also uses extreme slow motion. An example where he uses extreme slow motion is in "The Quintet Series" (2000)

Pipolotti Rist
-She was born in 1962 in Grabs, Sankt Gallen, in Switzerland. Herstudued at the Institute of Applied Arts in Vienna, through 1986. Her work Pickelporno (1992) made her famous worldwide. She made super 8 films, which last generally a couple of minutes, w altered colors and speed and sound. Her works generally treat issues related to gender, sexuality and the human body. Her works transmit a sense of happiness and simplicity. Her work was initially considered by feminist art critics. Rist's works are owned by the most important art collections worldwide.