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RODNEY CHANG'S 1982-3/1983 ART REVIEW FROM THE ARTIST'S JOURNAL, MARCH 1983
VISUAL RESOURCES/DEVELOPMENTS/EXPERIMENTATION Dental supplies as art supplies Plastic Sheets as framing, for acrylic painting Reverse frame/canvases - painting of back of conventional framed and stretched canvases Multiple canvases with singular framing Art Materials as assemblages, subject matter Found Commercial objects - acrylic assemblages, sculpture Refined Line calligraphic paintings Open frames paintings Expressionistic color paintings Expressionistic silkscreen printing Photosilkscreen - using slide projector Silkscreen with painting Superimposed photography; disco light abstract backgrounds Nonart Forces to apply paint to surface (ex. hammering paint out of tube unto target canvases) Ceramic Block printing Ceramic 3D sculpting Ceramic Slab 3D reliefs/wall hangings Ceramic Line drawing in 3D Ceramic-Sculptural-Painting-Silkscreen : mixed media hangings Subject Matter- expressionistic flower and landscapes, electronic landscape photographs, abstract (flat shapes; arbitrary redistribution of foreground, mid and backgrounds), landscapes, ceramic painting/reliefs, ceramic sculpture, "watercolor" application to canvas; calligraphic lines Lava Sculptures - with acrylic airbrush; glazes and slip-oxides, resin, marble/wood pedestals (koa) Miniature Ceramic enivironments - architectural overtones Ceramic Expressions/Impressions Alternative methods to apply paint, manipulate clay, make photographs (ex. minimal distortion of clay body; natural nonart forces; projector tracings) Future - photoprints of best works, clay molds - convert to metal (ex. bronze), increase scale of works, clay equipment acquisition - slab roller, kilm, glazes, wheel; painting equipment - compressor, airbrush; sculpture - power tools and equipment; integration of media/thought/thematic content Frame Art - frame as THE art form Plexi-acrylic series Cellophane wrapping as drawing substrate Compound material sculpture Easel Sculpture - the art easel as sculpture
1983- study of INVENTIVITY and its unconscious effect on my art activity and study of journalism to promote my artistic and dental activities
1983 Losses- Defunct Arts Trek Magazine, David Logan, publisher - never printed - $1500 Exhibition at Crossroads Gallery, Pearlridge Mall - $2000
Completed Honolulu Marathon - 7th consecutive Disco Dancing - once per week National Enquirer called about "Life after Disco for Disco Doc?" - no article materialized Counseling with Dr. Joyce Woods |