Despite being broke and exhausted, she was creatively invigorated by the change of scenery and began creating sculptural portraits from materials including wood, marble, bronze, plaster and clay.
Consumption surveys, which track what people actually spend, sketch a more lifelike portrait of the material quality of life.
Make a portrait with recycled materials.
Edmund Teske, George Herms, Topanga Canyon, c. 1960, vintage gelatin silver print, 4.8 x 7", Courtesy of the Edmund Teske Archives and Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. His work with solarization and collage lent itself well to the 1960s LA art scene, where his latest exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery, "Portraits," draws its material from.
The Portuguese fetched a rhinoceros out of Africa to Lisbon; after reading about it, and in a spirit of factual curiosity, the German artist Albrecht Dürer made his print The Rhinoceros, a portrait of a living, material monster, a singularity, with its horn and its beak-like face and its knobbly, armoured hide.
Here, the source material includes portraits of Scottish Enlightenment thinkers and the cannibal student Issei Sagawa.
There's lots of endearing comic business here, around a small core of average-to-good material: sound-portraits of royal family members, a few neat one-liners ("I come from a musical household. I live in A flat"), and a cute song about being single at Christmas.
Over the past 20 years, Blake has made a number of mosaic portrait projects featuring unusual materials like barcodes, QR codes, Oprah's Book Club covers, and even ecstasy pills.
People have chosen to make their reading materials portrait-shaped for the past 3,000 years.
