Art Display Spaces- Scale

Art Display Spaces- Clusters

Massachusetts Art Museums

Revised Site Analysis Map

Pink - Site

Green - Large Scale Open Spaces

Orange - Gallery Spaces

Blue - Museum Spaces

Red - School Gallery Spaces

Programatic Statement

Programmatic Statement:

A headquarters in the central location of the Fort Points Art Community will provide a place for artists to work and discuss their art. From this headquarters artists will be able to determine which of the numerous venues to display art, from spaces ranging from a traditional white box gallery to exterior large-scale site specific space such as Boston Common. A potential satalite space would be Castle Island located in South Boston. This space has a large public exterior space, smaller interior spaces (Fort Independence), a smaller exterior courtyard space, close proximity to the water, and beach space. This site has many different site instances allowing the various art types to be displayed appropriately.

Thesis statement

White box: A proposal for dynamic gallery spaces

Art museums/gallery spaces throughout history have been typically static spaces in which the art must adapt, or suffer the consequences of being out of place. The idea that the spaces can adapt/change/move depending on the artist’s desires and the type of art could be very innovative. The scale of the spaces in this facility will vary greatly depending on the art it is responding to. The facility will have the ability to transform and adapt to many different kinds of art depending on artists’ needs including but not limited to the change of seasons. This facility (or series of facilities) will be constantly changing keeping the attention of visitors as well as the interest of all. It will go further than just having a movable wall, it will transform the way we think of art spaces in the 21^st century.

Full Scope

Green - Open space/large venue sites

Red - Existing gallery spaces

Yellow - Museum

Blue - Castle island and Fort Points Art Community

Main Site

Fort Points Art Community

- Located near the ICA

- Current facility for the community is small

- Close proximity to water

- Large adjacent parking lot seems like a potential site for a new larger space

- Could enrich the industrial quality of this area

- Could be too close to other galleries and museums (overshadowing?)

Potential Satellite site

Castle Island

- Open Site

- Existing Historical Fort could be used as retrofitted gallery space

- Close Proximity to water

- The destination point of many recreational activities, and tourists

- Far enough away from large grouping of gallery space currently in Boston

Experiential Narrative- Artist

You are the Artist; you circulate the building to enter through an entrance leading to your studio space, in which only you know the location. This is a personal space in which you and only others you let in occupy. This is a place of process and work, which can be short or long term, it is your creative domain. You not only see “behind the scenes” this is the place where you create the scene. You can stay in this space for a long or short period of time; it is at your discretion. You decide when the work is “done”; you decide the setting and space this work will be presented in, alone or with others. It is your choice, no more WHITE BOX, the architecture responds to you and your work.

Experiential Narrative- Visitor

You are the Visitor; you enter through a large public threshold to a unique and versatile building. As you proceed through space you encounter various forms of art. The first you experience upon arrival in the landscape of the site, you did not recognize it at first due to its camouflage qualities. As you begin to look around you see the architecture is adapted to the art. You transgress through artistic spaces as well as spaces specifically for traditional art. The range of experiences is tremendous. You come back in a week to the same site and to what you think is the same facility. There are subtle hints of the base facility but things have been subtracted, added, the facility has transformed. A new set of spaces has been developed, all customized to the art it contains, this is a DYNAMIC facility.

Program Diagrams

This first diagram is showing the various art forms in relation to time. The area before the white box is the process time before the art is put on display. The white box represents the gallery time or the time the art is in the public realm. After the box is the time of storage or when art becomes a memory. Some forms of art (the turquoise and pink colored lines) continue from the beginning all the way to the end, while some (yellow) start and end in the public realm (this could be linked to performance art, while others (blue and orange) start in the public realm and continue on, for instance process art.

This is a circulation diagram showing the path of the visitor vs. the path of the artist. The path of the visitor (Blue line) starts in the public realm enters the gallery/viewing space (the white box) and exits again, this is more of a controlled path. The artist (teal path) can either start in the public realm like the visitors or start at their individual studio spaces beyond the gallery. The gallery is the point where the visitor and artists interact.

This final diagram shows adjacencies. The orb in the center again represents the public realm. The blue pieces inside represent studio spaces that are completely public, the blue/green boxes represent the studio spaces in both public and private realms, and the green boxes represent private studios.

New Visual Abstract/Idea Map

The idea map speaks for itself, however the visual abstract may need a little explanation. I was trying to think of a way to represent the combination of static and dynamic (or temporary) elements without simply placing pictures of temporary and static architecture. I developed the idea of a trellis (a typically static element) and how plants and vines grow off of it throughout the year (growing from a base).

The visual abstract is in a grid formed by the trellis with the center image blank (representing the trellis itself) the images surrounding the blank space are pictures of vines themselves, with outer ring of flowers and fruits images produced by the vines. This version of my visual abstract strives to show the diverse growth of elements from of a solid base.

Acrylic Painting

In my free time and occasionally for projects i enjoy acrylic painting mostly abstractly but sometimes realistically. Here are a few painting i found online that i find intriguing both in terms of color and spatiality.

Buildings I Like

Partial housing - Alejandro Arevena

Nelson Atkins Museum: Steven Holl

Hirschorn Museum: Diller and Scofidio

Visual Abstract

Updated Visual Abstract (temporality)

First Try: Visual Abstract("Natural" vs Urban)

Idea Map

Nature/Outdoors

I'm a huge fan of the outdoors and simply being in fresh air, i also enjoy the changing of seasons that New England has to offer.

Installation Art

Ice figures, nele-azevedo - temporary art installation

Cornelia Parker

Dan Graham

Andy Goldsworthy

Buildings I Like

"Dancing Building" Frank Gehry

Sports Pavilion- ModederscheimMoonen Architects

"Swiss Re Building" Norman Foster

A couple buildings that I like, although i haven't visited any of them, more to come.

Third Iteration Collage and "Section"

Rhythm

Section

In this iteration I pushed the varying colors of the collage to imply more rhythm across the page. In the section I used the images from the collage to create forms showing the depth of the collage while implying that there could be various kinds of expression underneath the forms, unseen from above.

Proportion and Scale

Collage Section

In the new iteration of the collage I took new photographs with a white background so that my body did not blend in. I also pushed the idea of proportion and scale by making the size contrast between each image much greater. For the section i chose a distinct form for each body part and manipulated it based on the size it appeared in the collage, and layering it based on how the images were placed.

Second Iteration- Scale and Rhythm

Scale and Proportion

I took images of different parts of my body and scaled each to make an abstract Picasso-esk version on myself. I then adjusted the transparency and frequency of the images in an attempt to create more depth.

Rhythm

For this collage i gather various images of water with different color and ripple variations and

segmented them to create a rhythm across the page

Initial Collages

Rhythm

Rhythm

Scale/Proportion

Scale/Proportion

Boundary

Boundary