Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen

Both Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen are new age artists with the whole mind set of having art being art. They like to create pieces that has come from nothing are has no price set to what it worth. It the context and the way it was created that is what the value is and things that are handmade and the personal ownership in which the piece is created is what they thrive off of.

Barry McGee brought in everything he could find from the streets and created his form of artwork. Things that are discarded, intercepted, it didn't matter what it was, he would just put a frame around it and in a mass quantity of these sections created something beautiful. Something that was discarded, lost, or found on the street would become cherished and valued by some rich buyer.

-art school he learned the Process of art- He felt like an art school jock. There was no way he would be bad at it.

HE enjoys writing on peoples property- Trains

-IF he does his outdoors- it Is open to anyone to see.

Indoors- painted directly on the walls: when people came to see his piece- people would remember his piece

Margaret Kilgallen

- She likes things that are handmade

§ She finds things that are done by people

§ Public see graffiti and sees garbage- she sees billboards as garbage

§ American, Indian Folk Art- Inspiration

§ Typography from the 16^th century, Black Red, Blue- influences painting

Her paintings are very flat

She does everything by hand- no projections

-her hand is imperfect- from a distance it looks straight, but when up close you can see the line waver- that is where she see the beauty.

Linda Zacks

Linda Zacks is a very interesting artist and takes the expression text in image and puts her own twist on it.

Someguy 1000 Journal Project

This project produced and funded by Someguy, is very New Art and more or

less a worldwide installation piece in my eyes. He ordered and sent out 1000 blank journals over a 2 year time spand with a set of instructions, an online website, and a return address, nothing more, nothing less. He let his audience interpret and add whatever content they wanted and felt was necessary for the book, and then passed it on. Someguy quoted "Where did all of

our creativity go?". Books and a lot of content with artists was to standard and to straight forward, so he gave the audience the paintbrush, and allowed them to make the necessary strokes they felt would add to th

e piece. With the introduction to the documentary, I liked use of the hand drawn fonts and how they appear on the page. The stop animation and layer of the pages really brought out life and flow of the piece. It take something that is in the physical work, like pictures, and they layer text over it and then overlay color and other designs on top of it. All the pictures start out black and white and then color is later added and layered into the image. Someguy used blank books and sends them out with instructions and has the reader decide what he or she will add to it, and he leaves them in random places. _Bathrooms, Peoples groceries, newspaper holders.

Someguy's work has inspired another people to be artists and take responsibility for the journals.People all around the world wanted a journal and it is the journey and the story that he is looking for. He wonders where are the other journals, where have they been, what lives have they touched?

Julie Sadler: She takes pieces of other people’s work and make it her’s. She cutes out material, takes everyday material, trash, signs, posters, articles, newspapers. She explains that it is hard to let a journal go once you put your heart and soul into.

Sean Mahoune: He is like Johnny Apple seed. He plants his seeds and then leaves. He loves the aspect of adding something and leaving the journals everywhere.

Rich Troncone: You see it and it is handed to you, Now you can leave your mark in it.