Richelle Gribble

Richelle, I thought you might like to see these sketches by Isabel Bishop...


RICHELLE'S PROPOSAL
Because I have been working fairly large lately, I want this next project to test another extreme in the effort to depict the figure at a very small scale. I want this project to also test my usual work habit—instead of working with a lot of different textures and layers I want this piece to be a minimalistic series that examines space. I want to work on 9 small wooden boxes, sizes 12 x 8 inches, including drawings with ink, graphite, charcoal, and possibly fabric. Each box would include one small cluster of people, but the collection of boxes in relation to each other would create a completely different social situation as it would if each box were seen separately.

The idea to work on people in a series is similar to Marlene Dumas because I like how it interacts with the public in the gallery. Similar to Dumas piece titled “Chlorosis (love sick)” the viewer is immediately placed in this kind of dialogue with the forms in the imagery.

I also really like the simplistic empty backgrounds shown in most of Egon Schiele’s work because it allows you to make assumptions about the space. In the piece to the left, for example, your eye fills in the absence of the seat and works to complete the scenery to work relative to the figure.

~The Body as Visual Communication~

For this assignment, I want to explore the body as a form of communication through the way that the human form affects the viewer. The human form works to communicate to the audience as shown by the scale, gestures, and distance of the form relative to the viewer. I want to explore ways that encourage the viewers to see themselves as part of the piece.