Drawing from Memory
ENRIQUE MARTINEZ
Author
04/06/2021
Added
21
Plays
Description
Assistant researcher for Byron Anway's studio practice.
Searchable Transcript
Toggle between list and paragraph view.
- [00:00:01.560]Hello, my name is Enrique Martinez.
- [00:00:04.050]I am assisting Byron Anway in his studio practice.
- [00:00:08.010]I began researching with Anway in the fire program my freshman year,
- [00:00:12.660]and I'm continuing this summer and the following academic year under UCare.
- [00:00:18.150]When I first began assisting professor Anway, I was working all in graphite.
- [00:00:24.180]During this time I learned to work with powder graphite in layers,
- [00:00:28.230]and how Anway builds one of his images based on sketches and underlayers.
- [00:00:34.050]I also got insight as to how Anway's creative process works.
- [00:00:38.940]His pictures are based in experimentations with drawings.
- [00:00:42.810]So now when we move into watercolor and painting and
- [00:00:47.310]printmaking,
- [00:00:48.210]I have Anway's history of image-making to guide newer
- [00:00:52.590]endeavors,
- [00:01:02.690]Professor Anway's
- [00:01:03.770]Research focuses on the excitement and danger of large groups
- [00:01:08.510]using a variety of picture, making materials and techniques.
- [00:01:12.560]This interest came from his time living and working overseas in Europe and
- [00:01:16.760]Africa through drawing, painting, printmaking, and watercolor.
- [00:01:21.890]He combines news photos, memory, architecture,
- [00:01:26.000]and figuration to recreate significant moments of world and personal
- [00:01:30.740]history.
- [00:01:44.300]Over the summer,
- [00:01:45.260]I assisted Byron's paintings bringing the mosaic pattern,
- [00:01:49.730]graphite drawings. I did my first year to watercolor
- [00:02:08.300]then taking his Photoshop sketches of blankets and planes to
- [00:02:13.220]make these somewhat blissful,
- [00:02:15.380]somewhat eerie guash paintings of blankets on paper.
- [00:02:27.530]At first,
- [00:02:28.730]I made a few small scale studies of how I should compose the picture.
- [00:02:41.630]Then I went on to working on a few large pieces of two by three
- [00:02:46.370]feet paper.
- [00:02:48.560]And after that I did a few larger scale studies and
- [00:02:53.330]eventually a four by five foot painting.
- [00:03:14.250]Now I'm printmaking for Anway, at first
- [00:03:17.820]just relief carving on 20 by 20 inch woodblocks.
- [00:03:22.560]And now through Alyssa's wisdom,
- [00:03:25.440]I am learning to print these larger blocks.
- [00:03:27.630]I will
- [00:03:47.160]Continue to carve and print for an way this following summer and academic
- [00:03:52.020]year.
- [00:03:52.950]So I will be revisiting the images more closely related to the drawing
- [00:03:57.720]site began with now in relief.
- [00:04:18.630]I will also incorporate some of my own practice into my future research.
- [00:04:24.030]I'm working with water-soluble graphite and paper collage.
- [00:04:28.620]These works will address cultural identity and expression.
- [00:04:41.880]I would like to thank professor Anway and my fellow and way Ucare
- [00:04:46.380]students. Thank you.
The screen size you are trying to search captions on is too small!
You can always jump over to MediaHub and check it out there.
Log in to post comments
Embed
Copy the following code into your page
HTML
<!-- To force a 16x9 aspect ratio use 'padding-top: 56.25%;' instead of 'padding-top: 75%;' -->
<div style="padding-top: 75%; overflow: hidden; position:relative; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1;">
<iframe
style="bottom: 0; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; border: 0; height: 100%; width: 100%;"
src="https://mediahub.unl.edu/media/16493?format=iframe&autoplay=0"
title="Video Player: Drawing from Memory"
allowfullscreen
></iframe>
</div>
Comments
0 Comments