Tonight I attended the guest speaker portion of the third in fellow instructor, Doug Parry's excellent Fine Art Symposium series at Pratt. The subject of the Symposium is Narrative in Contemporary Art, and the speaker was Robert Yoder. Yoder made a name for himself with his rigorous abstract road-sign constructions; his recent collages exhibit a simultaneous freedom and precision, with a playful quality that draws you in.While Yoder's images aren't necessarily directly narrative, it's fun to construct a story based on the title and the picture. We talked about how the subject is influenced in large measure by what the viewer brings to it.
I think Narrative in a broader sense is a splendid idea for our next Art Cafe topic, don't you?
Stay tuned!
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Image:
Robert Yoder
Breaker, 2006
Collage - vinyl, collage on paper
8 x 8 inches
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