Artist Post #10: Spring Semester
April 11, 2011
Darren Saravis
Bio: "Darren Saravis studied Fine Art at the Pratt Institute, and graduated from California State University at Northridge with a degree in Industrial Design. He sees photography as a natural extension of the formal aspects of design. Darren lives and works in Long Beach, California, where he founded Nectar Design, one of Southern California's most successful design studios. His work has been exhibited in many venues in his home state, including Infusion Gallery in Los Angeles and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. His photographs will be featured at the Micro Museum in Brooklyn in 2009."
-Source: http://www.compositiongallery.com/artists/25-Darren-Saravis
Quotes:
"I created the Body/Text Project as a means of using technology to explore how traditional media and artistic exploitation of the human form separates thought from flesh. By turning skin into a screen and projecting text onto it, I seek to reunite the intellectual and the physical in an aesthetically bold context. My aim is to render beauty and to celebrate human beings as thinking animals."
- Source: http://www.compositiongallery.com/shows/35-Body-Text-Project
"Ideally, overlaying this text onto naked human flesh will serve as a reminder that these agreements are vitally important to our very survival. In mythology and classical art, messengers are usually depicted nude or draped only in scant clothing. These models are messengers as well."
Source: http://darrensaravis.net/statement/
Relation: As my previous posts have obviously shown, I am kind of obsessed with photography and text this semester. Thematically, this work isn't really relevant to my current series, but technically it is. I really am drawn to the projections of text on top of the subjects in the photographs. The contrast of the white projection light and the dark text on skin tones is really beautiful.
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