Artist Research. Notes

James Woodfill

Sound, Sculpture and light

Installation artist

Assemblage and found objects: important to artist work because of the continuing theme of recycling and reuse. 

Kinetic Sculptures: art that contains moving parts or depends on motion for its effect

http://jameswoodfill.com/index.html

Rehab 2007 Kansas City

Set of structures play with idea of architectural "correctness" and our idea of it in an urban experience. 

New mixed with old, change, decay

Rehabilitation-  In an urban society, in the art installation, and the artist's materials

Uses discarded materials-recycles

Rehab mirrors our environment and how we respond to it

Review: Organizing Chaos By Alice Thorson

http://jameswoodfill.com/information/reviews/rehab_review.pdf

"Complexity and heterogeneity" 

"Brooding Suspension"

Tone Spools 2002

Review: Excerpt from Awakenings by Kate Hackman

http://jameswoodfill.com/information/reviews/tone%20spools.pdf

"Beauty in clarity"

Essential nature of a garden hose- coiled around axel

Recreates this idea within the art piece

Size of a human- "Human Surrogate" 

Tension, possibility of collapse

Harmony 2002 Kansas City

10 rotating amplifiers, each with a tone generating card on back, 

Sounds created a "chord" which shifted and changed as people walked through the gallery. 

Also changing- light and shadow

Review: Radio Active by Jesse McGraw

http://jameswoodfill.com/information/reviews/harmony.pdf

"Overwhelming drone, immense weight"

Social interaction with people "faltered"

Sucked people in and also drove them away

Single step in any direction and everything changed