Moataz Nasr, Artist

Read about it.  Link here.

Graem Whyte, Artist

Source is Trendland, link here.

Anatomical Model

Ivory anatomical model of pregnant female

17th-century ivory anatomical model of a pregnant female with removable parts possibly used by obstetric specialists or midwives to provide reassurance for pregnant women. Possibly German.  Source is Welcome Collection, link here.

Project #1, Miniature Vignettes

1. Check out the work of Liliana Porter. I posted a few examples below. Much more work to see on-line and on her website (link below). Search for other artists who use miniature as part of their visual language.
2.Assemble a miniature vignette that has content and meaning. 
3. Install somewhere in the art building. Please do not install in any area that will prohibit/alter/disrupt the function of the art building.
4.  Once your piece is installed, check your name off (on the list posted on my office door). By doing so, you will indicate to others that your install is complete. If you want classmates to view your work immediately, then list location. If you rather have classmates search the building, then do not offer location.
5.  All miniatures must be installed by April 8. Also, make sure I know the location so you can receive credit.
6. Take professional pictures and post on your blog.
7.  Write an artist statement for the piece.
8. Artist statement worth 20 points, artwork worth 80 points=100 points.

Liliana Porter
Statement

In the last years, parallel to photography and video, I have been making works on canvas, prints, drawings, collages, and small installations. Many of these pieces depict a cast of characters that are inanimate objects, toys and figurines that I find in flea markets, antique stores, and other odd places. The objects have a double existence. On the one hand they are mere appearance, insubstantial ornaments, but, at the same time, have a gaze that can be animated by the viewer, who, through it, can project the inclination to endow things with an interiority and identity. These "theatrical vignettes" are constructed as visual comments that speak of the human condition. I am interested in the simultaneity of humor and distress, banality and the possibility of meaning.  Website link here.

Huang Yong Ping, Artist

A Football Match of June 14 2002, 2003
Galerie Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg.

Early in 1992, in his exhibition The House of Oracles, Huang Yong Ping showed an installation piece demonstrating the inevitability of the first Iraq war. In a more recent work, A Football Match of June 14, 2002, he refers directly to the American-led war to liberate Afghanistan from the hands of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, showing how this liberation has provoked a veritable clash of civilizations. The work consists of a football field on which armed American solders are shown playing against veiled Afghan women in the shadow of a huge meteorite that looms over their heads, surrounded by hundreds of bats. As the artist has stated, this is a dreamlike image of the world we are living in today. ~ Hou Hanru


Source link here.

Charles Ledray, Artist

Milk and Honey

Source is The Whitney.  Link here.

Charles Ledray

Above image is from Bass Museum of Art.  Link here.

"Tiny suits, miniature ceramic vessels in towering vitrines, hand-embroidered baseball caps, Charles LeDray’s work is a poetry of material, scale, and cultural resonance rich with history and emotion. Well known for his exquisitely crafted objects, working in a range of materials from fabric to human bone, LeDray’s work touches on loss, pathos, and absence. These objects, each exquisite in their separate ways, are also meticulously made by hand, bringing awe to our experience of them, each object virtually singing or humming from beneath the crushing conceptual weight of the immense labor involved in their own creation." -Bass Museum of Art

Above image is from Artes Magazine.  Link here.

Cricket Cage, 2002. Human bone, 3 3/8 × 3 3/8 × 1 7/16 inches. Photograph by Tom Powel. Courtesy of Sperone Westwater.  Source link here.

Filipe Soares, Artist

"Portuguese artist Filipe Soares has created this wonderfully detailed and whimsical series of miniatures titled ‘Floating Dreams.’ The pieces, which demonstrate Soares ability to produce aesthetically pleasing scenes above and beyond the added factor of its size, convey numerous scenes of human interaction ranging from the biblical to capitalist. The artistic talent Soares exercises in these pieces is clearly far from miniature." -source is format.  Link here.

Liliana Porter

Website link here.