Orvis AIR (Weeks Two, Three and Four)!

Hello Again friends!

Just thought I'd give you a little update on my adventures at the Honolulu Academy of Arts as the Orvis Foundation's Artist in Residence from November to December 2009.

Honestly it's been a wonderful experience and I wish i could be there, working at the Academy, everyday. Week two brought me the free family Sunday (provided by Bank of Hawaii) and a whole lot of visitors came with it! In this film it's kind of difficult to see the fluid progression of the panel but I think in between the kids and parents you can get a good idea of the changes. There was a lot of collage on this one and after a while you could no longer see anything I'd painted.




Week three saw a plant theme and several visitors who stayed for hours at a time!





And finally this last week, Week Four. It was pretty difficult switching from painting to using nothing but collage. However, I had a lot of help from people cutting out some of the shapes for me. This panel is so far the most closely related to the themes and motifs I am currently using in my grad work.





Next week I am going to eliminate all color and try to do a panel that is only greyscale. This will also be a big change from all of the highly saturated colors I've been using in the past.

Keep checking back for more! I'll be posting picture in Flickr soon!

Orvis AIR (Week One)

Hello again!

I am writing about the completion of my first week in residence at the Honolulu Academy of Arts for the Orvis AIR program. It's been wonderful! Everyone has given me great ideas and it's great to see kids old and young alike paint with me. I have some photos of the progression of the piece plus the time lapse video. If you are interested in being a part of my project please come to the academy on weekends Saturday 9 - 5 and Sunday 1 - 5. Anyone can paint and participate!

For more video visit:

http://www.youtube.com/user/BozSchurr

For more photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/boz_art/sets/72157622680613059/

Artist Residency at the Honolulu Academy of Arts

Wow it's been so long since I've updated this blog. BUT I've got big news! Today I am starting my seven week long Artist in Residence at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. I will be there every weekend Saturday 10 am-4:30 pm and Sunday 1 pm -5:00pm. MY project will be a live painting performance with audience participation. I am really excited to be able to talk story with the residents of Honolulu and hopefully after sharing our stories can create something together.

While I am painting non stop, I'll also be filming the process. After the day or the weekend, I'll speed the film up so it'll be ten plus hours packed into five minutes, the canvas will appear to be animated with art.

The best part of this whole process is that I am asking everyone who comes in to help make the paintings. Everyone can be a collaborator. I feel that since it is so difficult to be an active professional artist, I want to share my opportunity with everyone. If you give me suggestions of what to paint or help me paint, I'll take your name down and add you into the final credits as a collaborator.



So please come down to the Academy and help me make some amazing art!

Water

Video Collage

This was actually completed a little while ago but I have been traveling a lot recently and forgot to post it. This video collage I made using footage I found on various cameras and computers. The music is my good friend Ky Fifer or Ginchy creator of Harebrain Media. The song is "1,000 Times" although I added a beginning that wasn't part of the original song.

Performance at Thirtyninehotel

May 23rd 2009 - copyright Boz Schurr

(Yarn (Part II)

This is the second part in a series. Please see the post, Yarn (Part I) for the first part in the series. This was performed at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's building 6. This pulling and interacting with the audience represents my connections to certain people from my past (they are in my blog header) and the yarn are the thoughts and feeling we have for each other. This is my version of a creation myth, I am taking something simple, the "thoughts and feels" and tangle them up with other people to create something new. Eventually in the future I would like to feature these five other people with their own yarn, wrapping each other at the same time. Check back for later films as the series continues.