Week 8 — Artist — Micol Hebron & Joseph DeLappe

Artist: Micol Hebron, Joseph DeLappe
Media: video and photography, game art, imaging, drawings/paintings

Websites:

Micol Hebron — http://micolhebron.artcodeinc.com/pages/bio-and-artist-statements-and-old-news/

Joseph DeLappe — http://www.delappe.net/

Instagram:

Micol Hebron — unicornkiller1

Joseph DeLappe — josephdelappe

Micol Hebron is an American artist who works with video and photography. She is also a professor at Chapman University teaching courses on video art, performance art, and digital media. She received both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also an activist which she expressed in her art. Joseph DeLappe an American artist based now in Scotland who works with game art, imaging, and drawings/paintings. He is also a Professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland.

Looking at Hebron’s work, she has a lot of pictures where women seem to be the main theme. Seeing as she is a feminist, I do understand why her work is with women. A lot of her work is really interesting to me. I see a lot of nudity and just plain colors as if she is just letting the pictures speak for themselves. One of her works that stands out to me is “In Decent Exposure, 2011” which is just a series of 6 black and white self-portraits. In the pictures, she is doing normal day to day things, but she is naked. I see this as herself expressing her body and showing it in a positive light. Another interesting piece of work is “Cactus Pinup, 1995” which is a series of photos of someone posing naked around a cactus. Looking at these photos, I interpret it as expressing female pleasure and not see it as a bad thing. With DeLappe’s work, his main theme seems to be “war/warzones” and gaming/electronics. His work includes neutral colors or sometimes no color at all. One work I found interesting was “Work/Play” which is a paper with several black marks on then going in different directions. The art was made based on his usage of his home computer. It was a computer mouse over a rag and as he moved his mouse it marked the rag. Another interesting piece I saw was “Daisy Mouse, 2000” which is several computer mice cut and placed in daisy shape.

A question that I would like to ask Hebron is what she wished was the message people received when looking at her photographs because some can be very intriguing to look at and several thoughts could come from them. A question that I would like to ask DeLappe is why a lot of his work involves war/army because it can be such a dark and heavy topic.

Looking at these two completely different artists was interesting. Both of their work is great but VERY different. While Hebron was more on the activist side, DeLappe was more video games/electronics. Delappe didn’t seem to have actual people in a majority of his work while Hebron’s work seemed to highlight women. I would say that I liked Hebron’s work a little more since a lot of her photos have stuck with me and raised more curiosity. As a female, I think it is good to express your body and not care about what society is saying about it, which is what I get from her work.