Final Review was yesterday…Tony Labat, Jon Rubin, and let’s call him, Mr. X.
I took a cab and set up rather quickly, when I didi so I had the Pops video in the left corner, followed L to R, California Home Koi, the installation rendering, and then to the right was the Hypermodern Anaglyph in Negative Space maquette. After the folks looked around, I asked if they would like to see a section of YUK…this was a mistake, as it totally dominated the conversation of the other two reviewers besides TL who hadn’t seen it.
They spoke of irony, and sincerity, and questioned them…and as always Warhol came up. I successfully defended myself, though a few times I felt that the statement was mis-interpreted to mean “I use computers for everything.”
If one really reads it it’s ” touched by some aspect of mediation through the mechanical or digital” which means ANALOG is fine too…
I still will make art no matter what (more or less)…
Published by Pete Ippel
Pete Ippel, the son of a dancer and a musician, was born in Oak Park, Illinois and has been surrounded by the arts since birth. He moved to Morris, Illinois in 1989 and started to participate in athletics rather than dance. After high school, Pete attended Cornell University where he received a BA in psychology and a BFA in photo / digital art making. He continued to follow his sporting dreams in the high jump, which culminated in a school record leap of 7 feet 1/2 inch in 2001.
In May 2004 he attained an MFA degree in the New Genres department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Presently Pete is a practicing artist whose work is in numerous private collections and has been exhibited in New York, California, and internationally.
Mr. Ippel resides in Working Artists Ventura, a sustainable artist community in southern California. In addition, he teaches art, is a web developer, an active blogger, and still high jumps from time to time.
As a passionate problem solver and a pragmatic optimist, Pete’s art and his life are full of exciting challenges.
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