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artist statements
How to write an artist statement
Your
artist statement should outline your:
Self
Evaluation Questions
What are the
most important elements of your work and why?
How are these elements articulated through the work?
Why did you make this particular body of work, is there a background
story?
Where does this work fit into the contemporary art world?
Sources of your inspiration?
If you could have a private conversation with any artist living or dead,
who would it be and why?
Where do you get your ideas and inspiration for your work? Do you draw
inspiration from other artists or historical movements?
How does your work reflect the socio/political or cultural world in
which you live?
What has been the evolution (style-wise, media-wise, and concept-wise)
leading to this work?
How do you define your aesthetic. What does it mean to you?
What are your ideas and ideologies? How do they fit into your artwork?
What are your artistic strengths? weaknesses?
How do you accept new ideas and criticism?
What is your level of concentration while you are working on your art?
What are your goals? How do you intend to accomplish them?
Specific questions about your work:
CONCEPT
What is the most important visual aspect of your work?
How do you categorize your work (political, social statement, etc.)?
How specific is the message in your work? Do you work realistically,
abstractly? and why?
What images do you use and what do they mean?
How important is the creation of illusion or representation of reality
to your ideas?
GENRE (i.e. painting, photo, printmaking, sculpture, etc.)
Why have you chosen to work in this medium?
How does your choice of genre promote your ideas?
FORM (i.e. epic v.s. intimate - refers to space, scale, shape,
structure)
What format and scale do you use and why?
What meanings are implied by your use of form and composition?
PROCESS (technique, method, construction, procedure)
How do you make your work? What techniques are involved?
What tools do you use?
How does your composition strengthen the structure of your work?
(Is it formal or informal? dynamic or static? Does it relate to your
content?)
How do you use color, value, contrast?
How do you create illumination? What is your light source?
MATERIALS (think about your visual language, materials are a tool
for articulating your concept)
What materials do you use to make your work?
What personal connection do you have to the materials?
How do the materials that you choose visually reinforce your concept? |
