Michael Ray Charles - Painter who paints graphic design type paintings addressing the issue of racism in ads. He started out stating that many people say that he is perpetuating stereotypes in his work. For every painting displays a black figure displayed in a mocking or even scary way. He says that beauty embodies what we find ugly as well as beautiful.
Mathew Barney - There wasn't much I took away from this artist that was in words. His major piece of artwork covered in the film was Cremaster. I didn't have many words for this because I was just so interested in watching and seeing the intriguing images on the screen.
Andrea Zittel - This was an artist who created small spaces with everything she needed to live in. Her artwork definitely made me feel uncomfortable, especially since I'm claustrophobic. In a way I don't understand why she would want to create spaces like that, but in a way I do. She mentioned that she grew up in a protected type living space and then moved to N.Y. as an adult. She seemed shocked by the idea of new environments or people, culture, something in that experience. So it seems that she creates these controlled spaces in order to feel safe. If that is the case I understand it, but I hate tight spaces.
Mel Chin - This artist had some very interesting works. Some I didn't quite understand, but still interesting. For instance the idea of putting a dying out art form into a new one, IE the patterns from carpets from dying out cultures into a new culture of video games. Or a project to give new life to a house that was burnt down. The involvement of worms in the project didn't make sense though until the end of the film. My favorite though was the project where plants were planted into an area with toxins in the soil in order to clean it up.
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