Jim Woodring | Making Light | VASD Program
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 เม.ย. 2016
- JIM WOODRING
Making Light
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Mary Harris Auditorium on the campus of Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
About the Lecture
Woodring is an instinctive artist who seldom analyzes his methods, but in this lecture he shined light on processes and principles that have heretofore operated in the shadows. Woodring’s vivid imagery contains a wealth of historic and contemporary references enabling him to discover rich visual languages in his wordless comics. In this lecture he shared many of his obscure influences and inspirational touchstones and explored what makes his works so inexplicably, and often darkly, humorous.
About the Lecturer
Jim Woodring is a cartoonist whose works - comics, drawings, and paintings - traffic heavily in intermingled humor and horror. Based just outside of Seattle, WA Woodring depicts worlds from his unique vision fueled by hallucinations and surrealistic absurdity. These strange and immersive images have been published in multiple books including The Book of Jim and Weathercraft. The New York Times describes Woodring's work as “half unshakable nightmare, half Chuck Jones cartoon filtered through the Bhagavad Gita.”
Woodring was awarded the Artist Trust GAP Award, a United States Artist Fellowship (with Bill Frisell), and an Inkpot Award at the 2008 Comic-Con International in San Diego. Seattle’s The Stranger presented Wooding with their Literature Genius award in 2010.
VASD Program
The Visiting Artist, Scholar, and Designer Program explores critical, diverse, and creative inquiry. This interdisciplinary initiative enriches the academic experience at RMCAD and serves the greater Denver-metro community.
For more information please go to vasd.rmcad.edu
Gretchen Marie Schaefer - VASD Program Director
Tobias Fike - VASD Program Assistant
"The question was, how do I make a living while I'm drawing this book? And the only answer I can give to that, is that--and it's a well known phenomenon--if you throw yourself into something you want to do, you feel you should do, something providential steps in and makes it possible for you to do it. It's like, if you don't leave any energy for the reserve trip, you don't have a backup plan, if you just determine you're going to do this or die, something within or without makes it possible, and I'm able to cobble together a living out of just small things that come my way, sometimes large things that come my way, it's just enough to keep me going."
Ive seen.that some artist have a.need to create that supersedes the need to earn a living. Some are successful like Mr. Woodring and.some.not.
Its seems to have something to do with thier art completing thier sense of self image that they dont possess without expressing it artistically.
Just a thought....
@@from-Texas As an artist, I can relate to that. Most of what we think of as "self" is an image, one way or another. When I am able to produce something from within myself where others can see and appreciate it, it does have a kind of confirming resonance. To see and be seen. These are not horrible fixations. It is our attention that glues society together.
Thanks for the upload, I love Jim's work!
Genius, pure genius
I found a lot to laugh at in this, but I'd like to think I was laughing with Jim Woodring and not at him.
I'm not an art student. I'm a comic book fan, and it's a lucky day for me coming across this. I really enjoy Jim Woodring's interviews or, in this case, presentations because, like his comics & stand-alone images, they really are trips to another world. Everybody's interior world is another world, but Jim Woodring is a particularly unique & thoughtful guy and he can articulate his world & share it in a particularly accessible way.
Superb!
Amazing ❤️
When the Rama Hughes sketch came up it made me cry.. it was like, Ofcourse! ....
Could you please explain what you mean?
i want plastic lobo!
27:22 that's spanish no Italian
his hands are rather large!
check out a movie called dead leaves
55.25
Robert Crumb, done by somebody else.
_My tiny Welsh grandmother was a Woodring...I guess I am too!_
But without the pointless perviness
Does anyone care to comment or explain the following, please?
Jim's final comments seem totally contradictory. He couldn't get past the ideology of Christianity and could not subscribe to many of its beliefs. Yet, he instinctively believed in the idea of Christ. Which is it? Perhaps I am misunderstanding, or perhaps Jim misspoke and meant to say he DISbelieved that notion of Jesus. It certainly appeared he was leading up to saying such a thing.
Good question... It seems possible to believe in the divine potential each person has--and even to believe in the idea that, throughout our history, some people have achieved a version of divinity--without believing that John, Paul, Mark, or Luke really knew what they were talking about.
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