Caitlin Pupich: Sound and Image

Gallery: Joan Arrizabalaga             Arrizabalaga currently holds many pieces in the University of Nevada, Reno’s gallery. While she works in many mediums, some of the most astonishing and unique pieces that caught my eye in this gallery are the stonework sculptures she created. Of these stoneware creations, I chose Shiva, Goddess of Luck to analyze and understand in this paper.             This piece hangs on the wall as a shiny stone sculpture. Its unique shape and content immediately caught my eye.  The central part of the sculpture is comprised of a slot machine shape. The shape shows where you can insert the money at the top, the three slots that are randomly rolled, and where the money can come out.  While most of it is covered in a pearly white, it has bright yellow bars of color, as well as bright red cherries, which are a common symbol of gambling, pain...

Artist Talk: Nicole Pietrantoni’s Early Work Throughout her studies and travels, Pietrantoni was able to develop a theme in her work: the complex relationship between humans and nature.  Even as her art continues to change and evolve with skill and experience, this theme still drives her work. The first piece she displayed, titled The Romantic in You , takes a romantic image of a landscape of nature and emphasizes its manipulation even further. She pointed out that even the earliest nature photographers manipulate their photographs through combining multiple images. In this way, from the beginning of this form of art, humans have romanticized their ideas about nature’s landscapes.  With her work, she took one of these romantic photographs herself and printed it onto plexiglass and then shined a light through it. This emphasized the manipulation of images that people have conducted throughout their artistic experience with nature. Pietrantoni continued to work with light...

Follow This  to watch! This piece of work is really meant to animate the history of humans and the Earth. It considers not only how we have physically effected the world, and continue to do so, but also how we perceive ourselves in relation to time and space. Our perception of our role on Earth and in the Universe as a whole plays a huge role in how we chose to interact with and effect our environment.

Her is the Link to Soundcloud This project presents many elements, but ultimately, it is a self-exploration that considers how we perceive the world and how that can change. For mine, it could change by simply taking your headphones out and sitting completely alone.  While the Quad would not be relevant for everyone, this piece is tailored for college students on a college campus. Essentially, the quad has two purposes. The first is the actual set up of the quad. We will be seated along the perimeter of the rectangular shape of grass which is surrounded by a pathway on every side. You can loop around on the same path forever, or you could chose to follow it until you break off to go towards different parts of campus. What we are doing in my project is stepping off that path, just slightly, so that we are able to observe. Looking, there are so many options. You could immediately chose a path. You could fail to decide and walk around the rectangular path over and over. You could ...

This artist works in many different mediums, but I will be focusing on her performance art.  She created Luck You, which performs and creates in various galleries. She also combines video and direct performance with her character Chibi Cherry, an entertainer. You get to explore different aspects of Chibi's life with an overwhelming surreal and strange tint to the videos and performances. For much of her performance art, she uses her body as part of the art. Considering that she does modeling on the side to support herself, it is interesting that she chose to make her art similar to her career. With performance, she is using her physical being in order to create art. Overall, I enjoyed her work because she completely commits to these strange roles and, by doing so, her work is almost liberating to the viewer. It offers a strange look at the over-sexualized image of women that we are so used to, while still showing she is completely comfortable with her body.  Through her discon...

For this project, I wanted to capture the difference between the "sound" of media and outside voices and how they can be distorted in our minds.  Because of this, it begins very loudly and is disorienting. Comparatively, the second part of the soundscape is when you are able to turn away from media and external opinion and look only to yourself and your surroundings. While both media and silence are powerful and can be positive, this is meant to display when you are presented with too much outside of yourself.  Listen to it here

Find my song here Originals:   Holdin On by Flume   Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra