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For this assignment it was more difficult because I dorm and I wear all the clothes that I have. I decided to put on the only dress I own, take off my glasses, and put my hair up in a ponytail. I ended up just hanging out with my friends at the dorms in myContinue reading “Counterfactual Identity”

Artist: Destiny Randall Exhibition: YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE Media: Photography/videography Gallery: Marilyn Werby Gallery Within Destiny Randalls work, she explores the ideas of “beautiful” and the pressure that many deal with to look and feel beautiful. She asks her audience to consider the ideas of beauty based on large social media followings or to question ifContinue reading “Artist Talk #2”

The overall idea for my piece can be interpret two ways I feel. The message I was going for was that people often create the biggest problems for themselves. Essentially the butterfly is meant to represent ones hopes, opportunities, or overall happiness. The hand with the match is of course meant to represent people destroyingContinue reading “Shocking Art”

These photos capture the memories and dorm life experience on a weekend at Long Beach University. Myself and group of friends create an Olympic style party games and competed against each other. My favorite part about photographs is that they capture memories allowing people to always look back on old experiences with an actual image.Continue reading “Photos Tell a Story”

I wasn’t able to view the artist work as long as I wanted to but I was able to view Organic Matter gallery. Organic matter is a painting group of undergraduates made up of Vida Diaz, Faboila Sillas and Madeline Taylor. I got to speak to Madeline Taylor very briefly about her work. She toldContinue reading “Artist Conversation #1”

It was fun to sit outside and sketch. I really enjoy drawing and used to do it a lot when I was younger. Its harder to find time for drawing now that I am older. Also now that I am older I am a lot more stress and anxious which makes it sometimes difficult toContinue reading “Drinking and Drawing”

For my groups art we decided to pick the wall with a white spot on it from water erosion. We chose to box off the bottom to give the frames some shape and include the foundation of the wall with ants crawling by. I personally thought it was humbling watching the arts learn to crawContinue reading “Finding Art”

As an artist who focuses my work on realism I enjoy abstraction and the the visual stimulation or awe I might get by looking at an abstract painting. However I still very much prefer Realism because like I shared in class I prefer to see the world as it actually is not how I wantContinue reading “Abstract Painting”

While I was performing the maintenance art I felt like I was suppose to have some passion for it but I didn’t. I didn’t feel anything profound, in fact I like the look of aged things and think that the sculpture had more character with its dust and scribbles. When it was dusty, to me,Continue reading “Maintenance Art”

Hello, My name is Gina Olson, and this is my Blog for Art 101. I am a first year here at CSULB and currently am a Civil Engineer major (might switch). I am from Lancaster, CA, but I dorm here. Some of my interest are Art, specifically oil painting at the moment but over allContinue reading “About Myself”