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Artist Paints “#Pretty” at DeVos Center during ArtPrize 10 Converging Realities: #PrettyProject entry# 66722 Please Email me at Maggie@maggiebandstra.com for inquiries regarding purchasing. Original Oil paintings 21x21 $700 40x40 $2800
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Artist Paints “#Pretty” at DeVos Center during ArtPrize 10
Converging Realities: #PrettyProject entry# 66722
Local Artist and art teacher at Hudsonville Public Schools Maggie Bandstra has been following people’s ideas about what is “#pretty” on social media. She will bring these images from virtual to reality in daily, live-performance painting sessions at DeVos Convention Center during ArtPrize 10. Following the #Pretty hashtag for more than a year, Bandstra scoured Instagram for images that inspired her, reached out to posters, and, with their permission, is taking their images from virtual screen version on her phone to large-scale paintings in her signature abstract painting style.
With a total of 48 canvases in the project Bandstra will paint the final 19 canvases live at DeVos Convention Center—one per day—during the 19 days of ArtPrize. First, says Bandstra, the project is about using social media in a positive way. With so much negativity on social media, Bandstra sought to do something positive. “I’m interested in ideas that connect people and inspire conversation,” says Bandstra. She wants to remind people to never do or say things on line they would not do or say in person. In real life she would not take a picture off someone’s wall with out asking. So the dialog from the online conversations is also an important part of the entry.
Converging Realities #prettyProject is also about exploring feelings about the word “pretty.” What is pretty? How do we feel about the word?’ How do our ideas about “pretty” change with age, gender, experience and culture? And how and where do our thoughts about pretty converge with others? All works are painted on square canvases—(5)10x10, (24)21x21, (18)40x 40, and (1)48x48—in a nod to the images’ original format on Instagram. Of the total 48 canvases, 16 will be shown at a time in with the installation changing every day replicating Instagram’s story format. The 48 paintings represent Bandstra’s age this year. The canvas sizes represent stages in her thinking about what pretty means and how that has changed for the artist as she moved through her childhood, 20s, her 40s, and now, at 48.
Can social media add more beauty to the world? Bandstra thinks yes, and she’s making it happen, one beautiful painting at a time.
Learn more about Maggie Bandstra and see her work at https://www.maggiebandstra.com http://www.artprize.org/66722
Converging Realities: #PrettyProject entry# 66722
Local Artist and art teacher at Hudsonville Public Schools Maggie Bandstra has been following people’s ideas about what is “#pretty” on social media. She will bring these images from virtual to reality in daily, live-performance painting sessions at DeVos Convention Center during ArtPrize 10. Following the #Pretty hashtag for more than a year, Bandstra scoured Instagram for images that inspired her, reached out to posters, and, with their permission, is taking their images from virtual screen version on her phone to large-scale paintings in her signature abstract painting style.
With a total of 48 canvases in the project Bandstra will paint the final 19 canvases live at DeVos Convention Center—one per day—during the 19 days of ArtPrize. First, says Bandstra, the project is about using social media in a positive way. With so much negativity on social media, Bandstra sought to do something positive. “I’m interested in ideas that connect people and inspire conversation,” says Bandstra. She wants to remind people to never do or say things on line they would not do or say in person. In real life she would not take a picture off someone’s wall with out asking. So the dialog from the online conversations is also an important part of the entry.
Converging Realities #prettyProject is also about exploring feelings about the word “pretty.” What is pretty? How do we feel about the word?’ How do our ideas about “pretty” change with age, gender, experience and culture? And how and where do our thoughts about pretty converge with others? All works are painted on square canvases—(5)10x10, (24)21x21, (18)40x 40, and (1)48x48—in a nod to the images’ original format on Instagram. Of the total 48 canvases, 16 will be shown at a time in with the installation changing every day replicating Instagram’s story format. The 48 paintings represent Bandstra’s age this year. The canvas sizes represent stages in her thinking about what pretty means and how that has changed for the artist as she moved through her childhood, 20s, her 40s, and now, at 48.
Can social media add more beauty to the world? Bandstra thinks yes, and she’s making it happen, one beautiful painting at a time.
Learn more about Maggie Bandstra and see her work at https://www.maggiebandstra.com http://www.artprize.org/66722