Class Commentary: 08-02-04

Janine Antoni's dealing with identity is not about how she fits into her culture but instead it focuses on the private identity. Her work is a manifestation of small thoughts that reside in her immediate surroundings. Very much a kind visual philosophy, there is dialogue which is self contemplative. The viewer is almost unimportant, what is important is her ultimate understanding of herself.

A while back at UNCC there was an artist couple that presented their work, Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry. Their work was much different. It seemed if the saw themselves as the "every man" and could distribute universal truths that would cleanse the would of it's ills. They were pretentious and their idea of self, in their work, displayed it. Their work was not bad. Just when I see work that uses the idea of self to make broad generalities about parts of culture it never turn out good.