Hello, my name is Vanessa Gogliettino and I do not play well with others  am lazy   panic at the idea of talking about my work    have been busy doing everything but this  have commitment issues AM HERE.

After several failed attempts to create a new cohesive body of work for this show, I went back to my roots. It's a project I haven't entirely been taking seriously until just a few weeks ago and now I can finally offer you guys some insight to my process and the product.




Lets start at the beginning...

I started making "collages" following our graduation for a couple of reasons. 1. The loss of facilities (space suitable for clay work, kilns, wood shops, etc.) and 2. because of my newly incurred student loan debt. Without tools, space or money I started looking more towards paper based processes. I had the tools and I had a table, I knew I could make it work. I bought about 20 sheets of 15"x15" inch watercolor paper and it sat untouched for a long time. If you have ever sat in front of a blank sheet of paper you know the soulless bitch she can be. A blindingly white, black hole... a vortex capable of sucking your imagination dry...a desert, a cannibal, a sink hole. You get it.




In need of inspiration, I went to my local thrift stores and started going through their book sections. I would grab old encyclopedias and other books that had a lot of visual information in them. I tended to grab books that were about 20 years old or more. The quality of the colors in these older images was really attractive to me. Vintage like, kind of stagnate and definitely not from a contemporary printer. I would tear through these books, pulling any images that struck me for any reason. I have a poly-envelope filled with these images now.


THE REAL WORK


With my stock pile of images I begin to play around. My "collages" tend to actually consist of only 2 or 3 photos. By combining just a couple images I find that a lot more information starts to reveal itself with in each individual image. Though each photo has been extracted from its original context, the co-image begin to develop an entirely new context. There combinations can do a number of things, some of them below.


1. Create a narrative
2. Create a dichotomy
3. Reveal an underlying theme
4. Tell a joke
5. All of the above...

What the coupling does for each viewer is different and to me it doesn't matter how it affects the viewer, just that it has. The response simply acknowledges that I have successfully given these images a second chance, a new light. I admit that I have an initial idea when I first combine them and it is definitely not arbitrary. Sometimes it might be more obvious then others but either way, I don't think I will insinuate anything to the viewer via the title. To each his own.


Offering a second home to "left for dead" images was something that I came to on my own but here is an interesting project going on in NYC. It's basically a library full of dead books, discarded by libraries and other institutions but reclaimed by and for artists. It's called the Reanimation Library.


http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/index


Let me give you guys an example from the newest of my Left for Dead series. The following images are mostly pulled from 1987 National Geographic magazines. Kind of to commemorate there 25th Anniversary bound into a magazine that everyone keeps but rarely looks back in to.

So in this series I pulled the images, matched them, scanned them on to my computer and then digitally collaged them. I did this so I could reprint them on a larger scale. By increasing the scale I can take them out of the magazine context. The size isn't handleable, its approachable. In addition I wanted to print them onto a translucent paper. If you are familiar with Duralar or Mylar, imagine their frosted/matte papers, the paper I am printing on is very similar but has a little more tooth and is actually cotton based, not a plastic. This kind of foggy paper calls to the ghost of the image. My plan is to have 10 to 12 of these pieces and to hang them at a small distance from the gallery walls, another way to let them behave in a ghostly manner. I will post more as I have finished them. 


Sorry for the delay folks.

so you know my bus stop schedule idea? I was thinking of making the destinations all prepositions, like "about, across, beside," etc which I think ties in with Sio's general view of the gallery, but also skews enough away from actual destinations. I want to know what you think of that, and also, I want to go off of a real city's bus stop map template. I found some cool Japanese ones, they aren't all that different from other confusing bus schedules (which is the general idea in a way) but I want to know your take on it, for instance- do you think it matters what cities these templates come from? I want to make three total for the show. I was thinking of doing three separate templates. letmeknowwhatyouthink!

I found the perfect fog! (for the gallery)

The helmet and projector are here!! Thinking of maybe including this text alongside but probably not.

Mountains form
when lands collide.
Rocks and dirt, drift into each other
and in the process of their merger
the air finds a path
creating a cave.

When I think about caves,
I think about choices
and how we face obstacles.

I remember how darkness
narrows down our options
and how sometimes,
that feels like a decision.

So we fumble in the dark
trying to make our way through.
we tunnel and carve a path,
nestle in uncomfortable places,
go deeper; loose our way.

At some point
we might decide to must turn around
give up on reaching the other side.
Find a new cave.

Also, found the press release from a group show in Berlin, thought it had some nice things to say about art today.

Hey you guys,
I realized with my three, almost complete final proposals, I was trying to create A GUIDE TO OVERCOMING OBSTACLES via three paths

1) over - hiking collage -- group of hikers climbing from top to bottom of gallery wall, will be created there so model of this has to be envisioned
2) under - cave video -- coal mining helmet with video projection attached,
3) through/around - tourist desk-- pamphlet, mix tapes, maps, advice pamphlets, how to's, inspirational posters

I have attached a piece my studio mate did that I relates to these things.

I can do anything

mix

hey I know i havn't made one in a while.. and this one is only 44 minutes long.. but there are some songs I just GOTTA share!

march_2012

Steam Neon

In relation to my previous post, I was thinking about the "poster" and Parks desire to have work that relate to Steamboat Springs, CO. I have a few poster designs that I have in mind that all revolve around a pattern I found in a Toulouse Lautrec coloring book.
I realized with the body removed, the design looked kind of like steam. Could this be made into a neon? I will post posters with this design in a bit, but I think it would look nice together.

Collaborative Tourism

I have been thinking about the upcoming projects that revolve around collaborations planned for Colorado in May.
Just recently, my studio collective was invited to create a window display at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. A task that was challenging not only in its spacial property (9' x 14' x 2' space plus impossible scheduling issues) but the fact that we were not a "collective" and our work was vastly different from each others. It is hard enough to find an individual artistic voice, let alone a uniting choral tone among a group. This experience had me thinking about different ways of conducting a setting where we would be able to create a context as individuals, while still creating a cohesive idea about our work together and it's relationship to Steamboat Spring, CO.
One setting that seemed both applicable and ripe in possibility was the idea of a "Tourism Desk". You know when you walk into a building that is used for a few purposes, there is a table where people post job adds, business cards, event listings, brochures and pamphlets etc. This space is a setting for a cacophony of incongruous information. Being that our work processes are not related and coming from various areas of the U.S., this table might allow us to build a bit of a drawing board. Kate, maybe you can include a mix tape or the "Pray for Rain" recording. Copies of reading or printed brochures about our previous work? Park, maybe photo copies of pieces from your previous show?
I see it as a wall, with large prints that look like posters and/or the Neon. Below that there will be a bevy of paper goods that can be about a past work or present collaboration context. Maybe they are each on sale for $1. See model above.