Tumblr (3.0; @joshualuther)http://joshualuther.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyuogzqUkW1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>100 Stolen Mona Lisas</strong></p>http://joshualuther.com/post/17012306000http://joshualuther.com/post/17012306000Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:00:35 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyunbrotMt1rnkn7lo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyunbrotMt1rnkn7lo5_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>Before and After </strong></p> <p>I have often wondered if I could create art by making the world a worse place than how I found it. I wanted to challenge the notion of art as beautification as well as making art through a negative act on the planet no matter how small.</p>http://joshualuther.com/post/17010995152http://joshualuther.com/post/17010995152Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:35:00 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyulrl6Wgn1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Meaning Container </strong></p> <p>These blocks was an attempt to create identical objects that contained very different meanings. This work is an example of a series pieces that were measuring the properties of meaning.</p> <p>12” x 11” x 11” concrete and screenprint</p>http://joshualuther.com/post/17009175590http://joshualuther.com/post/17009175590Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:02:09 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhjpcCMyK1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhjpcCMyK1rnkn7lo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhjpcCMyK1rnkn7lo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>Search: Art</strong></p> <p>The imagery of the paintings were determined by searching “Art” in the Google search engine. I created paint-by-number templates from the images that come up on the search. In an attempt to disconnect myself from formal and “creative” issues, I paint and complete the paint-by-numbers in a kind of act of following the prescribed image that Google gave me.</p> <p>Through out Modernism, the question of what art is has been asked many times. By defining art through purely quantifying and democratic means, I hope to bring a fresh angle on familiar themes such as artistic authorship, creative originality, and the role of painting in the digital age.</p>http://joshualuther.com/post/16609902575http://joshualuther.com/post/16609902575Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:48:00 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhj7rgX8u1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhj7rgX8u1rnkn7lo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>Hidden Messages </strong></p> <p>These three images each contain contrasting messages. Each message differs vastly in their dialogue and theme i.e. Genesis 1, the big bang theory, and a quote by Nichtze. The text and the background are intentionally displayed in the same color. I wanted to represent information that the eye cannot discern yet still exists in the digital realm.</p> <p>36” x 36” each digital print on fabric</p>http://joshualuther.com/post/16609308203http://joshualuther.com/post/16609308203Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:38:00 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo7_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo8_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>A Single Line</strong></p> <p>Much of my work deals with the tenuous and enigmatic nature of meaning. These drawings are created with a single line. At first thought such an innocuous thing as a line could describe such a wide range of meaning including images of violence, eroticism, or even the transcendent idea of God.</p>http://joshualuther.com/post/16505868277http://joshualuther.com/post/16505868277Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:07:00 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydzy47AIe1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>pdqb</strong></p> <p>Orientation is such a relative notion, in actual space orientation is completely arbitrary. Yet we as humans determine our world view in terms of up and down, good and bad.</p>http://joshualuther.com/post/16504819310http://joshualuther.com/post/16504819310Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:49:00 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lydzvzdXgD1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Two Obstructed Self Portraits</strong></p> <p><span>These represent two self portraits. One in the subjective state the other in the objective state.</span></p>http://joshualuther.com/post/16504743580http://joshualuther.com/post/16504743580Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:47:58 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1iV32DXiKg4?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p><h2>Mouth Diagrams</h2></p>http://joshualuther.com/post/16259493860http://joshualuther.com/post/16259493860Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:09:00 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6dpacQ3j1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Yardstick Universe</strong></p> <p>This piece illustrates the convergence of signifier and signified with the word Yardstick measuring thirty-six inches, while, in contrast the broad disconnect of the word Universe measuring thirty-six inches.</p>http://joshualuther.com/post/16259289137http://joshualuther.com/post/16259289137Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:05:00 -0500<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6c1sZBjv1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6c1sZBjv1rnkn7lo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6c1sZBjv1rnkn7lo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6c1sZBjv1rnkn7lo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6c1sZBjv1rnkn7lo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>No Particular Order</strong></p> <p><span>This piece is mainly about order. Written language is a set of symbols. And when those symbols are in a certain “order”, they have meaning. But that order is a man made order.</span><span><br/></span><span><br/></span><span>I wanted to touch on that hierarchy of order. For example, 1.2.3. being a higher level of order than A.B.C.  I wanted to present two sets of the letters that make up the word “meaning”. And to posit, that both sets are in no particular order.</span></p>http://joshualuther.com/post/16257335352http://joshualuther.com/post/16257335352Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:29:00 -0500<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6bxqc1KG1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Meaning Scale</strong></p> <p><span>Much of my work is creating contradictions between every day assumptions and material objects. Sometimes, I like to use modes of measurement to show the value of the implied meaning of language and the physical realities of the world.</span><span> </span><span><br/></span><span><br/></span><span>This piece is an example of playing off the idea of meaning having weight. I wanted to stack up an entire language, with all it’s meaning along with it, against an innate piece of plaster.</span></p>http://joshualuther.com/post/16257190583http://joshualuther.com/post/16257190583Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:27:00 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6b78ihzg1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6b78ihzg1rnkn7lo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>Big Bang Genesis</strong></p> <p><span>This a visual representation of the marriage of two different ideologies of the creation. I wanted to use the first chapter of the Bible as a drawing material. Through this mode of drawing, I hope to bring written language off it’s lofty pedestal and into the terrestrial world of line, shape, and form.</span></p>http://joshualuther.com/post/16256311936http://joshualuther.com/post/16256311936Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:11:00 -0500