About this project
JUST ADDED! Every $25 pledged is an entry for a drawing for a Signed, Limited-Edition Framed Giclee’ Print. ($25 pledge=1 entry, $50=2 entries, etc.) This is in addition to the other rewards! Your choice of these two:
“Paul IV” (#2 of 25) and “Caley V” (#3 of 25). both prints are 24” x 24” in a black metal frame & come with a Certificate of Authenticity. Gallery Retail of one of these is $650. Drawing will be held on May 21st (provided the funding minimum is met) and shipped to the winner on May 23rd. (if you already pledged you are already entered) See larger images of these giclee' prints at www.vlasicstudio.com.
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Listen to a short radio interview about the project: wwwuntitledartshow.com, #116
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I am excited beyond words to announce the official launch of a very large year & a half long art project, Welcome Home: a Burning Man Portrait Project
($4000 is the minimum I'll need to do this project, over-funding is greatly appreciated! (Follow the project on the website blog) www.aburningmanportraitproject.com
“Welcome Home.” These are the first words you here when you arrive at the gates of Burning Man. It is a Home like no other, transporting it’s eager participants into a world unknown and incomprehensible to outsiders. Participants are released from the bonds of their daily lives. They are free to express themselves in all manner of ways creative, bizarre and joyful. The experience of Burning Man can be life-changing for many people, and is at the very least, profound and extraordinary. It is almost unimaginable what is created out there in a temporary city of art and lavish experience, literally in the middle of nowhere, in the dust, wind and heat. However what truly creates this event is the people. Burning Man is at its core an event created by incredible people willing to brave the harshest of environments to bring their particular form of creation and expression to the community, to truly let their hair down, recreate themselves and share an experience that can be had no where else on the planet. It is these people that participate in this glorious act of communal creation that inspired me to create "Welcome Home: a Burning Man Portrait Project*." A Burning Man Portrait Project* is an art project including a series of exhibited paintings and an art book, the creation of which will be chronicled by a blog and a short documentary video. This project will be funded by your generous donations. Follow the project from start to finish on the website blog. Thank you for supporting the Arts.
Project Details: (a more detailed description can be read on the website)
What is a Burning Man Portrait Project? A Burning Man Portrait Project is a multi-phase art project by professional fine artist Marie Vlasic consisting of an Art Exhibit (paintings), Blog/Website, Book, & Video
Art Exhibit (paintings) The Portrait Project is a series of paintings of the “Children of the Dust”, the people of the Burning Man community. The people at the event are very unique, not just in their commonly outrageous dress (or undress) but their countenance, their demeanor, is unique to the event. It is my intention to focus on the individual, to capture them by visually separating them from the over-stimulating surroundings by a white backdrop. The “models” will be photographed on-site, and the paintings will be created from these photographs during the year following the event. A solo show of the paintings has been scheduled at Walker Fine Art in Denver in September 2012. (more gallery exhibits TBA) The opening night of the exhibit will be an event in itself, giving visitors a taste of Burning Man (see website for more details)
Blog/Website The entire process of a Burning Man Portrait Project, from beginning to end, will be written about and photographed in a blog which will be part of the website dedicated to the project. Portions of the blog will be printed in the book “Welcome Home, a Burning Man Portrait Project”* (see below)
Book I will create a quality art book of the project, which will include images of the paintings, photos of the preparation and the event, as well as excerpts from the project blog.
Video A short-form video chronicling the project, from the preparations to the travel, the experiences at the event, the resulting creation of the paintings, and the hanging and opening of the show. The video will be available to view on the website and will be shown at the art exhibits.
Funding The funding for this project will be entirely from donations. This Kickstarter Campaign will cover the initial project expenses. Thank you for supporting the arts.
See more information on the project at the website below. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
www.aburningmanportraitproject.com
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Marie Vlasic is a professional gallery-represented figurative artist currently living in Denver, Colorado. See her work at www.vlasicstudio.com
FAQ
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Yes! I am pleased to say we have gotten permission from BMorg to shoot on the playa.
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The models will get full access to the pictures taken of them on the Playa, and if funding allows, a nice piece of bling. If their image is chosen to be painted, they will get a signed, limited addition giclee' print of the painting. (all models will be asked to sign a model release)
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The funds go towards everything from camera equipment, backdrop/reflectors, bling for the models, gas, RV, photo "booth" (an EZ Up canopy) at the camp, website fees, project-related printing, etc., but not book printing. That comes next year. I have put in nearly $2000 myself as well.
Have a question? If the info above doesn't help, you can ask the project creator directly.
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Pledge $10 or more Pledge $10 or more
You darling supporters will receive a lovely piece of artsy "bling", metal dog-tag style charm to wear proudly around your neck commemorating the project. NOTE: rewards at this level will be send in August 2011.
Pledge $50 or more Pledge $50 or more
You marvelous supporters will receive the lovely piece of bling and an 11" x 14" signed photo print of one of the finished project paintings. NOTE: Bling shipped in August 2011, prints shipped by August 2012 (I have to paint the paintings before they can be printed!)
Pledge $150 or more Pledge $150 or more
You beautiful supporters will receive a signed copy of the book "Welcome Home: the BM Portrait Project" NOTE: Books shipped in August 2012 (I have to paint all the paintings and write the book before they can be sent to you, which will take a year to complete after the 2011 Burning Man Festival.)
Pledge $500 or more Pledge $500 or more
You amazing supporters will receive a signed copy of the book and a limited-edition signed giclee' print. NOTE: Books & prints shipped in August 2012 (I have to paint all the paintings and write the book before they can be sent to you, which will take a year to complete after the 2011 Burning Man Festival.)
Pledge $1,000 or more Pledge $1,000 or more
You stunning art lovers will receive a signed copy of the book, and an original study painting by the artist (chosen by the artist) NOTE: Books & paintings shipped in August 2012 (I have to paint all the paintings and write the book before they can be sent to you, which will take a year to complete after the 2011 Burning Man Festival.)
Pledge $3,000 or more Pledge $3,000 or more
You most honorable supporters, along with my undying love & affection, will receive a signed copy of the book, and an original gallery quality original oil painting by the artist. (painting selected at the artist's discretion.) NOTE: Books & paintings shipped in August 2012 (I have to paint all the paintings and write the book before they can be sent to you, which will take a year after the 2011 Burning Man Festival.)
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M Vlasic
VLASIC STUDIO
Denver, CO
MarieVlasic@vlasicstudio.com
www.VlasicStudio.com
Represented in Colorado by Walker Fine Art
Artist Statement
I have a strange relationship with people. I am at once fascinated and repulsed. Fear and loathing with a joyful embrace. This duality in my at-odds psyche has turned into an obsession, one which I express the only way I know how, and that is to paint. When I render the human form, I am digging into the person, pulling out what and who they are. I want to show their insides, for better or worse. By pushing and pulling the paint, the light and the shadow, I am laying them, and myself, bare on the canvas. It is my attempt to find the humanity, the God-spark, in them, and in me.
There is nothing more beautiful and horrible and lofty and base as a human being, and for me, no other subject worthy of deep exploration. I feel my soul in painting the human form, and so the flesh is always calling me.
Only oil paint will do for me. I fell in love with the medium, with it’s soft, sensual feel and rich intensity of color in my first college painting classes. I paint thin, in many successive layers. This time-consuming technique gives my work a luminous quality. Because of the brief, expressive nature of the images I am creating, I work from photographs, many taken myself and some in collaboration with local photographers.
I am often asked which painting is my favorite. The answer, the one I am doing now. The process of watching each work unfold, the moment when the flat canvas begins to breath, that is the fuel that drives me to keep creating.
Thank you for your interest,
-M Vlasic
