Tumblr (3.0; @joshualuther)http://joshualuther.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1rmud3ccm1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1rmud3ccm1rnkn7lo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1rmud3ccm1rnkn7lo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1rmud3ccm1rnkn7lo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><strong>Two Grams of Ink</strong></p> <p>These are a selection of drawings that were each made by carefully measuring exactly two grams of ink. In some drawings I wanted the ink to behave naturally and in others to signify itself through language. In the remaining drawings I disconnected its nature to depict a wide range of human emotions, or recognizable personalities.</p> <p>16” x 12” each<br/>drawing ink on paper</p>http://joshualuther.com/post/20242745979http://joshualuther.com/post/20242745979Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:13:25 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyuogzqUkW1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>100 Stolen Mona Lisas</strong></p> <p><strong><br/></strong>This piece is a web page of 100 Mona Lisas. Because of the nature of images on the web, This web page merely references the image url. All the images are still living at there designated homes. Through this piece, I hope to touch on the notion of ownership and originality in our time.  </p>http://joshualuther.com/post/17012306000http://joshualuther.com/post/17012306000Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:00:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyunbrotMt1rnkn7lo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.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://24.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://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhjpcCMyK1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhjpcCMyK1rnkn7lo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.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://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhj7rgX8u1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.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://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.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://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo5_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lye0svEneu1rnkn7lo6_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.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://25.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://25.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/><h2>Mouth Diagrams</h2> <p>This installation breaks down the all so complicated meaning of god into its three different sounds. The piece includes the three sounds, and diagrams of the mouth creating those sounds.</p>http://joshualuther.com/post/16259493860http://joshualuther.com/post/16259493860Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:09:00 -0500<img src="http://25.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://24.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://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6c1sZBjv1rnkn7lo3_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly6c1sZBjv1rnkn7lo4_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.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://25.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://24.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