• Artist Mary Weatherford is one who creates a series of abstracted landscapes that painted on large canvas in combination with a neon light. She frequently uses tints of sapphire, pink and orange, and the neon signs on her paintings.
2. What seems to drive the speaker’s work/practice?
• Artist Mary Weatherford believes the combination of colors and neon lights is motion. Since 2012, she created neon art inspired by the city, past, and present. Specifically, she researches and creates paintings from a combination of historical event and personal experience.
3. How would you characterize the way the speaker talked about their work/practice?
• I characterized that she stays strong, cool and calm when she talked about her work. Her paintings represent a new way of painting, because of that, she might …show more content…
Honestly, I like seeing an art of neon light for a long time. Her work is a whole new art piece to me. She created paintings based on a history and experience, using of the combination of brush strokes and neon lights. There is no a figure or thing in her paintings, but shows a lot of meanings to audiences. I was absorbed in deep thought after the lecture. I could fall in her paintings, and make a story about the painting. Her lecture led me fall in.
5. What was the most surprising thing to you about this speaker or lecture?
• The most surprising thing about artist Mary Weatherford is that her painting doesn’t need anything else, and holds many meanings. The painting is pretty empty, and gives us feeling that something missing sometimes. But when I watch her works, brush strokes and neon lights take me to the universe. A new way of using brush strokes, neon lights and the tints of colors pull audiences into the painting. 6. Do you feel you have a sense of how education or life experience informed the speaker’s work? How