Jamie Zill Senior Portfolio 2010-11: Artist

STARN BROTHERS

http://www.starnstudio.com/

Stephen Wirtz Gallery

http://www.wirtzgallery.com/main.html

BIOGRAPHY

http://www.starnstudio.com/media/PDF/DM_carrer_narrative-21-2009.pdf

INTERVIEW on Big Bambu, You Can’t, You Won’t, You Don’t Stop

http://www.metmuseum.org/podcast/detail.asp?read=all&eid={9C6923D2-D348-4761-BEB3-A943934068D2}

REVIEW

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/arts/design/23bambu.html

“The totality of the Starns' new work is a sight to see. Actually, it's quite a range of sights: film, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts and photographic works scaled from palm-size to monumental and realized in an almost dizzying array of media, from prints on the highest-tech aluminum to 50-foot Shoji screens of translucent paper that might have been rescued from an ancient temple.”

“But the metaphors expressed in their materials and the physical presence of these works blend science, spirituality, the laying of memory and the passage of time into an ambitious project that the Starns call--with an ironic jab at the pseudo-certainties we use to try to contain and describe essential mysteries--The Structure of Thought.”

Healy, Tom. "Artists on Artists: Tom Healy on Doug and Mike Starn." Bomb 88

(Summer 2004): 8-9. Art Full Text. Web. 15 Feb. 2011.

Tom introduced me to the Starn Brother's work in an individual meeting. I mentioned how I wanted to use floor boards as a conceptual element in my work and he immediately brought out his Starn Brother's book. Unfortunately, that book has far better and more intriguing images than the internet does. There are certain pictures from the book that I specifically wanted to use on here, but they don't seem to be available online. Although, I chose these images for their printing processes and mixed media uses. I love the combination of overlapping pictures with different printing processes or finishes. I have been dealing with how to combine different types of printing, and the Starns do it beautifully, and roughly. I don't know if I would personally present my work that rough, with items like scotch tape, as I am pretty anal about my work, yet am open to purposeful connections and manipulations. I really enjoy how a lot of their work is small images making a whole. Since I am dealing with photo etching, and a limited amount of space to put the metal into chemicals, the idea of breaking up an image has become of interest. This may even allow me to combine the metal, wood, and paper images together more seamlessly. I really wanted to find images of their make shift frames, sort of like the last image, but with ribbon and other materials. They also use frames without glass, and allow things to pop up and out. I like the idea of purposeful "mistakes."