Tony Cruz Pabon, Kira Lynn Harria

Dove Allouche

diptych part 1, lead and ink 70 X 100 CM

When you look at Allouche's work you feel like you are looking into the dark, you struggle to see what are about and what's in them. He uses in and pencils to create these images and obviously the palette is much muted which also suggests that the subject matter is of a dark nature as well. Allouche says that he wants to try and give as much information as possible with the smallest contrast in tones.

The forms in the drawings are almost unrecognisable, but they are of natural wonders created by the weather or space phenomena. Allouche uses these because they are unique events where nature is in complete control. However Allouche doesn't just conscribe the images in the way they look he completely regenerates the picture using what critics call "a syntax of reproductively", it's Allouche's worst fear to be caller a copyist.

The image is both flattened and intensified when using this process, and layer upon layer of pencil are built up in areas until you can't see through parts before the ink is applied. These drawings are made over a period of several months because Allouche insists that they mustn't be rushed, he also wants the lines of the pencil to be completely invisible "as if it was a tattoo onto the paper". The work is very perfectionist and almost OCD, the work is very rich and intense because of the materials used. I think that the artist wanted the process to be the most important part of the work, it is more of a process art piece and maybe viewing this process would allow me to understand it more.

Tony Cruz Pabon

I wanted to look at this artist because in my drawings there is a specific use and play on space which is the same as in Pabon's work. His drawings are mainly made up of lines which represent the distance between two different points. These can be two different locations, a literal space or anything, but the idea is that they show a journey in-between the two lines. The drawings are very literal, the lines clearly show space and distance and I think that the artist does this to show the simplicity of what his art is about.

The work is obviously very abstract and is very far away from its literal form and it must be quite a process to get to the final outcomes, one of the drawing is a representation of the groves on a vinyl record which when you know what it is it becomes obvious, but it's something that you would have never have guessed. As well as drawings Pabon is also a printmaker making large intaglio prints, which look very much like his drawings as you can see from the picture. "Distance Drawing" is described as an attempt at drawing the distance between San Juan and London, which makes you thing that it wasn't successful.

Pabon wants there to be a feel of distance in his drawings and perspective, as if something is a long way off and they aren't sure how to get it, he says he wants people to feel despair because they can't get what they want and they can't do anything about it. I personally like the work because of the ideas behind it, but also because of the muted colours.

http://cargocollective.com/tonycruz-portafolio/C-V

 Kira Lynn Harris

City room, Chalk and emulsion

I wanted to look at Harris's work because of here use of perspective and monochrome colouring.  Harris wants to unpin the viewer's sense of space by using multipoint perspective to create the illusion of indoor and outdoor space. This causes you to question perception of what is actually in the room. Harris uses black paint and white chalk to create the drawings so they resemble chalk on a black board which give you the impression that she is trying to teach us something but also questioning the mental age of the audience. She can erase them at any time and start again which makes her work quite playful.

She has been influenced by many things as there is such a large variety of forms in the work; however some of the most key influences are space and light architecture, renaissance art and even Rothko. Sci-fi has been a major influence because it embodies her idea of movement, space and time, but you can't see any particular influence of sci-fi in the work it all looks very real and realistic. You can see that in some of her work there are figure that each of their own little story and this is where the influence of sci-fi comes in you have to read into the work description to really figure out what's going on.

Harris likes to tell a story in her work, the work is more illustrative than it comes across and it is encrypted in the work, it is a challenge to figure it out. Harris says that simply writing her stories aren't enough and she needs to draw her ideas to make them come alive. I like the work because of the perception and perspective that is in there, but also because of the space and depth in the drawing this is something that I would like to create in my work.

http://www.re-title.com/artists/KiraLynn-Harris.asp