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From her beginning in the suburbs of Oregon, Jeanine Oleson’s art work has come to capture more than her humble background. She as an artist relishes in creating tangible props that symbolize the subject material she is working with. It’s a combination of both research and video and photography to bring to live these artifacts, usually through sculptures. Conduct Matters , the work at display at the Hammer museum, is a look at copper and its intensive use during the boom of capitalism and afterwards. It combines the resource with art while at the same having a human touch. The instruments and objects, the art, serve functional purposes for humans. The rug which sits plainly in the middle of the room is a reference to modernist abstract painting with its unique design. The videos that were playing on the small televisions were also a product of her creativity. It was an ensemble performance based on copper-related processes. To take something that most people would find boring, copper,

Touring the room at the Fowler Museum on Africa Print brought me a cultural awareness of a whole another set of people solely through their textiles and clothes. From looking at the wide assortment of diverse textiles, it was deductible that 3 key characteristics describe African print: bright colors, bold images, and complex patterns. These patterns go beyond their aesthetically appeal as they provide  sociopolitical commentary on the African diaspora. While some may have be more influenced by history, others provide modern designs with hints to the globalization of the world. It was both intriguing and funny to see one with Obama’s face stitched in. African print has come to represent Africa’s artistic style for the past century. Similarly, African dresses take a similarly bold approach in its design. The patterns complex and colors bold, all in all holding meaning beyond just cloth. My personal favorite dress was the yellow one with the pink flowers. It’s always interestin

In order to truly appreciate space & art, the definition for art needs to be expanded from a drawing to all forms of the art including movies and other visual mediums. There is no better example of space and art working together than in movies. Some of the most intricate and creative special effects have been in Sci-Fi movies. One recent example is Interstellar, which spends a lot of time in space. However, I think beyond the movies itself, the movie posters are also an artistic expression. Not only do they strive to convey the theme, but also hint at the story. A movie poster “says” a lot of things. The movie poster for the 1979 Alien is one of my favorite movie posters of all time. With 99.99% of the world not actually having seen space, everything we imagine about space is created thru art. If there wasn’t art, we wouldn’t really even be able to imagine what space would be life. Our whole perception of space is essentially a visually recreation. Space art also points to how art