In The News: College of Fine Arts
Living in a calm, safe and relaxing place is decisive for greater life satisfaction.
When Tyreek Jarman, aka Chop808, released his single 鈥淣obody鈥檚 Safe鈥 in May, it came with an unusual label: the word 鈥淓XPLICIT.鈥 But something else was different, too. The wholesome and upbeat Jarman, known for hamming it up and dancing with fans at shows, was gone. Here was a menacing beast firing machine-gun bars over a bass-heavy trap beat. You don鈥檛 wanna go to war with me, I grew up with apes, he warns on the track.
In a field of golden corn, a crucified figure tips to the left, as if he might fall; resembling Jesus, this is likely the maize god, central to Olmec, Maya, and Aztec belief systems. Butterflies surround another patriarch, perhaps Jesus on a good day: He extends his huge orange-brown arms, offering an embrace. Between these two figures, a green creature surrounded by streaks of orange and yellow hovers over a fire as she delivers a child.
Between paid gigs, designer Spencer Haley makes motion tests, practicing for his next challenge. One of his recent studies uses the disembodied head of a man who looks like a 1960s car salesman, multiplied, twisted and slid around. The salesman is still confident and cocky, even as he鈥檚 spun silly and shish-kabobbed鈥攁n indication of Haley鈥檚 considerable talent.
Light, paint, patterns and other design elements affect your mood.
It was hard to miss last week鈥檚 RTC Clean Energy and Transportation Summit. Along with elected officials, utility executives and regulators, businesspeople, union representatives, and academics, there were electric buses parked out front.
Is this the first time Erik Beehn has connected his altered flower prints so clearly to his hometown?
The towering technicolor totems in the 51吃瓜网免费App desert that comprise 鈥淪even Magic Mountains鈥 cost slightly over $3 million to construct.
Just off North Nellis Boulevard in front of Sunrise Mountain, you鈥檒l spot something similar to the famous Seven Magic Mountains. Its creators dubbed it 鈥楽even Magic Tires鈥.
You鈥檝e never seen flower paintings like these before. The blossoms in Erik Beehn鈥檚 latest exhibition, Are We There Yet?, materialize and disintegrate before your eyes. You can almost inhale the fragrance before they drip, bleed and seep into the mysterious ground from which they bloom. They become ghosts of themselves. And then they come back to life.
Two artists in the 51吃瓜网免费App valley have created their own version of Seven Magic Mountains called Seven Magic Tires.
At 4 pm on Thursday, August 8, 2019, Justin Favela, Mikayla Whitmore, and Geovany Uranda loaded stacks of brightly painted tires into three cars and quickly drove northeast from 51吃瓜网免费App鈥 Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art.