3 artists for Assembly

David Sparshott

I really like the simplicity of his pencil line work (which aren't perfect straight lines, but instead makes the drawings more natural and less deliberate to be reality, but to portray it in a different light), matched with simple accent colours emphasized with the white space around them. For example, the traditional wooden architecture of the temple structure is in juxtaposition with the industrial, modernist highway.

Using coloured pencils and having stripes in the image create nice textures depth in the sketch. "imperfect perfect".

Again, I like the minimalism and simplicity in his work. Here he did not make outline drawings, but instead filled the spaces in to show the shape of roofs and leaves. I particularly like the different ways he has drawn the leaves, such as the scattered expressive line strokes at the back, and the condensed, thick palm leaves which became the focus of the image.

Robert Weaver

Weaver drew the figures of Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle as massive, understated sculptures. They are the mute guardians of a legacy. 

Text by D.B. Dowd

I appreciate Weaver's accurate portrayal of people's poses, body form and movement in his works. For instance for the above the baseball players are seen as unassuming, calm, and gentle giants, as their figures dominate the whole height of the paper (Whether or not this is intentional).

I like how simple and raw, but at the same time effective his drawings are. The composition creates a nice contrast and conveys a sense of space and perspective with a single horizontal line. I also like how the man in the foreground has a lighter second outline, which made him look like he is in movement. 

His figures are realistically portrayed with a curve at the back and a belly, even though this man's leg looks slightly too long? Again, the environment is conveyed very simply with the ad backdrops, palm trees, and some odd baseball sticks lying in parallel on the ground. Maybe he added them to again create a sense of space. However, I thought the upper baseball stick would have been smaller if it was located farer away. 

Mathilde Aubier

Aubier combines simple but intriguing collages and visuals into GIFs and pieces of work. My favourite is definitely this shape-shifting Christmas tree with orange eyes to vaguely remind us of Christmas theme colours.

This caught my attention because my first reaction was that the woman's head on the right is an extension of the body in a suit on the left, and the women have somehow "Crossed heads". Just a random thought. 

Man with balloons. As if his mind and imagination is liberated by a stringless balloon!

I like how Aubier's works are open to interpretation and allow room for reflection. Her works are also "assemblies"-- and she had not once named her works assemblies! To some extent, illustrations are also assemblies of gathered visual info and insights to create something captivating. 

However, I would also want to know more of the context Aubier has put in her works? Why these particular images? Do these mean anything or are they purely aesthetic and random? It would be more interesting if there has been parameters where Aubier creates collages and visuals for a certain theme, topic or even a more elaborate narrative.