Joshua Sommers

About me

Hi, my name is Josh, and I'm looking into majoring in Graphic Design. I'm a Freshman here at GVSU. My experience with Art goes back to the second grade where I used to write and draw stories, and I stopped doing certain types of art until I was a Junior at the High School I went to in Hudsonville. If you couldn't already tell, I am sort of obsessed with Ariana Grande and have been for as long as I can remember. The reason being is because she sort of saved my life last year when I came out, and so many times before that too. Her music has gotten me out of some very deep and dark times in my life. I came out very publicly on Instagram during the beginning of my senior year, and at first I was getting a lot of postivie feedback from a lot of people up until I started to dress how I wanted to dress or felt more comfortable in. I would get a lot of looks when I would walk through the halls, or I would get called a lot of names. I have a huge group of people around me that helped me grow into the person of not caring what anyone else thinks, and only focusing on what I think.

Freedom

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Love

Embodiment Piece

Hey, I'm oddly enough the tiny little salt shaker you pick up for a lot of really weird foods sometimes, but I don't like to judge. Sometimes it's food that I can picture myself on, but there are just some foods that I can't get over the fact that you put me on top of, and that's the only time I judge you, but I don't like judging you, you just leave me no choice really.

The Golden Calf

The Beheading of John the Baptist

Contempary Artist Paragraph

Damien Hirst: He was born on June 7, 1965, in Bristol, England, a British assemblagist, painter, and conceptual artist whose deliberately provocative art addresses vanitas and beauty, death and rebirth, and medicine, technology, and mortality. He is the United Kingdom's richest living artist. From 1986 to 1989 he attended Goldsmiths College in London, and during this time he curated an influential student show, “Freeze,” which was attended by the British advertising mogul and art collector Charles Saatchi. The exhibition showcased the work of a group of Hirst’s classmates who later became known as the successful Young British Artists (YBAs) of the 1990s. In 1995 he won Tate Britain’s Turner Prize, Great Britain’s premier award for contemporary art. One of his paintings went for $19,213,270, which was the most a painting of his has gone for. In 2008 his painting The Golden Calf went for $18,556,270.

These two pictures were both supposed to give a childhood feel to it which I actually really like about these two pictures.

Now these two pictures are by far my favorite from what we've created so far. The first picture portrays a very dark time in my life, and the photo that's under the bear is supposed to represent the healing process that I had to go through, and still am currently.

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