Art Blog » memories http://meganfrau.com/blog new work, process and otherwise Sat, 31 Jul 2010 03:25:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Studio Photos http://meganfrau.com/blog/2009/11/studio-photos/ http://meganfrau.com/blog/2009/11/studio-photos/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:35:03 +0000 Megan Frau http://meganfrau.com/blog/?p=743 I’m starting to back my artwork on board today. I took some quick photobooth pics to document the composition on the floating collage pieces. I miss having a reliable camera. I’m going to photograph these later with a school camera when all the work is up in the critique space. studiophoto3 studiophoto5 studiophoto4 I have 6 of these printed: one left alone and another collage (below), which I guess I used two for the final product. I’m working towards new approaches for the rest. It’s my twin sister, which I’m sure she just loves that I have her infested with bees below. studiophoto6 studiophoto2 This piece has been in the planning stages since summer. I haven’t gotten around to it, but every time somebody visits my studio, they mistake it for one of the finished pieces. I’m not sure what to take of that, but I’ve been told to include this with the rest of the work. I need to finish it though. Maybe draw it on the wall? I’m not sure. I got a weird comment that the unfinished aspect of the work is what makes it successful, but I don’t think it refers to presenting the piece “as is” so I’m left to figure out a new way to complete it. studiophoto1

That’s me all disheveled and tired looking, which is how I roll 98% of my time at school. I don’t usually put pictures of myself up, but I figure this one is for the folks. When I first toured MCAD, my mother was appalled at the undergraduate students’ general appearance. Grandma glasses, leopard print leggings as pants, unwashed hair, and ill-fitted thrift store wear offended her fashion sensibilities. “Why are these girls looking ugly on purpose?” she asked me loudly enough so that the surrounding perpetrators would overhear. “I don’t know Mom, it’s an art school thing,” I told her, slightly embarrassed. Then she grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me, repeated the entire time, “DON’T EVER CHANGE MEGAN! DON’T COME HOME LOOKING HOMELESS AND DIRTY! I MEAN IT!” Oh the memories. Maybe I’ll find an obnoxious outfit at a thrift store to wear the first day home for Christmas break? Our secret, shhhhh.

]]> http://meganfrau.com/blog/2009/11/studio-photos/feed/ 3 Art http://meganfrau.com/blog/art/ http://meganfrau.com/blog/art/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:15:16 +0000 Megan Frau http://fraunie.xepher.net/blog/?page_id=4 MFA Thesis Exhibition work:

“Such fairy tales begin with an original lack of differentiation between two siblings: they live together and feel alike; in short, they are inseparable. But then, at a certain moment in growing up, one of them begins an animal existence, and the other does not.” –Bettelheim

Combination of silkscreen/drawing monoprints (or mixed media depending how you want to define it). Completed the final semester.




Graduate school 2nd year:

Artwork completed during my second year of graduate school.

Graduate school 1st year:

Artwork completed during my first year at graduate school. Media range from relief print, etching, silkscreen, and mixed media drawing/prints.

Wide Open/©Megan FrauPlaguedPortraitBird's Nest Deep Withinvariation 1: The Woundvariation 3: The SwarmSister/©Megan Frau

All work © Megan Frauenhoffer

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