Skewville

Daniel Chou

EN 101

Airborne Kicks

 The initial start of Skewville started with the wooden shoe, or “airborne kicks”. The wooden shoe is now seen all over the world, from New York to China, that way it shows that Skewville has been there, like any street artist trying to get their name out there, when they mark up a spot. When I read that that’s how they got their name out there, I was impressed, and found it pretty amazing that people come up with stuff like the airborne kicks to get recognition from people.

Every graffiti or street art artists coming from New York City has their own style and taste. So when people see their work, they will instantly know who it is. The Skewville style is a bit uncommon, being that is considered a “street installation”, a combination of graffiti on 3D objects that has interaction with the public environment. After the installation is made, it is left in the area, to bring something amazing to the urban area.

As children, the twin brothers would throw up sneakers or “kicks” up every street corner in New York City. It was a way of representing your hood, or and also if someone who has passed away on that block. But as they got older, they came out with the idea of making wooden sneakers to continue with their childhood practice. They started in 1999, and ever since then there have been thousands of airborne kicks hanging in corners around the world.

One of Skewville’s famous artwork besides their famous flying wooden sneakers is their piece presented in one of their recent shows called “Shift Work Disorder”.  The piece is named after a mental disorder, meaning an exhausting insomnia brought on by working irregular shifts at night. This show dedicated to showing the breakdown of the body's natural rhythm in their own lives-- making art while surviving in the real world often results in drowsiness, disrupted finances, and irritation with the general public.[1] This work will also go beyond Skewville’s usual design, but features a darker more personal form of work not shown by Skewville before.

Before starting Skewville in 1996, Ad went to the School of Visual Arts in New York City, to become an illustrator. He then switched to graphic design and actually ended up with a degree in advertising. But after working for many ad agencies, he decided to quit, and start Skewville.  His brother Droo went to NYIT for architecture, then later on went to FIT for marketing. He had a corporate job for a couple of years, and then decided to quit to work full time for Skewville with his brother.

The name Skewville is not a Nickname that was composed out of nowhere. It actually   comes from a building in Queens, NY that the twin brothers named Ad and Droo lived in during the Mid 90’s. Technically it stands for a building that the twins use to live in, for the building was falling apart and almost in ruins. But the building had character, for the skewed or distorted, bended, or twisted structure of the building, with the crooked stairwells made the building beautiful and unique. The term “Skewville” stands for warpness or crookedness, in the sense that you never know what you will get. Once you walk in one direction, you’ll end up in an unfamiliar place or a different direction.

Even after ten years of being street art scene, Skewville artwork is still renowned for being different from everyone else, for being creative and being a influential figure in the movement of the street art culture.

One of my favorite works by Skewville, is the “Slow Your Roll” piece. The piece shows a red bus with the slogan slow your roll. The reason why I like this particular work is the meaning behind the artwork. The artwork basically means to keep yourself in check, and not do everything in such a hurry. The “Slow Your Roll” reminds me to calm down, enjoy life and take a breather from the events in life that are draining. It is a positive piece of artwork that reminds you that the glass should always be half-full.

Hook And Sherman

According to Bell Hooks in the essay “Art on my mind”, the author states that art should defamiliarize a viewer by making the observer look at something effortless and well known in a particular way. But according to Leo Tolstoy, art ought to evoke emotions in a viewer. Looking at both authors’ point of view, I believe that my artist Skewville accomplishes both of these demands. 

One of Skewville’s most famous pieces is the Skewville airborne kicks or wooden sneakers. This piece accomplishes both of Hook’s and Tolstoy’s ideas because the thought of wooden sneakers hanging around street corners all over the world brings many different emotions to the audience’s minds – it can bring the emotion of incredulity, of wonder, of confusion and of marvel. Viewers can be confused of why there are sneakers hanging up on street corners, they feel marveled and of wonder when they realized that the sneakers are made of painted wood. Some viewers can feel deceived, however the Skewville sneaker allows viewers to experience that art is however and whatever you make of it.

Another one of Skewville’s famous piece is the “Slow your roll” piece. This piece shows a red bus with the slogan “Slow Your Roll”. I believe that this work succeeds in doing both of Hook’s, and Tolstoy’s ideas as well. Looking at this piece, viewers would be able to imagine the car slowing down, and imagining the caption to be true. Also viewers can also feel the affection of the artist’s work as well.

 

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     Just what I needed a project about art that requires me to write, don't get me wrong I love art and all but writing about it is not my thing. As we sat in our English 101 class our professor explained how this project is going to go down. No, one looked excited to start on it at first, but after some time passed everyone got into it. I had no idea who I should do for this English paper, none of the artist really stood out to me. As I sat there in my art class looking through the artist I found Robbie Rowland, works of art. I love his works of art; it’s a new look to the everyday surrounding a new way to think about things.
    Robbie Rowland is an Australian musical producer and visual artist; he has a passion for both the music and art industry. He's has been working as a music producer since 1989 and has worked with Indies labels and major artists, many of witch have achieved national and international recognition. Some of his recent works in the music industry includes " The Morning After Girl ", "Nfa Sixteen Millimetre", " Car Stereo Wars", and " The Fakes".
    Even though, he loves to work with music he has a passion and amazing skills when it comes to visual arts. He participated in an exchange program PRATT Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in 1998. Then later the Certificate of Art and Design Box Hill TAFE, Melbourne, in 1989. Ten years latter he had graduated form the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999, also this is where he did his studies that were based at Pratt Institute in New York, witch also inspired him for his first solo exhibition FOUND.
    Robbie Rowland has taken an interest with segmented sculptures. He has re invented everything from street signs to boats, silos to floorboards. He brings a new twist on art, and a twist to look at it as well. He has a way of defamiliarizing everyday objects bending and shaping then to how he wants to see the world. After all isn't that what being an artist is about, doing work of art the way you see it and how you want it to come out. As Bell Hooks sates," Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible." Stating that not every art has to be all pretty, that it should be what you want it to be.
    The best way to describe his art works, is the bending of an object an everyday object that everyone passes by and turn it into a work of art. Such as his floorboard art when he ripped the board and curled it and shaped it to a cross. Many of his art works is like this, ripping it apart and bending it and forming it to his desire.
    He has had a few solo exhibitions his recent one include The Offering, Dandenong, Victoria, in Australia, in 2009. And two in 2010, Project Space, Arc One Gallery, the other in Grace in Ruin, Gisppaland Art Gallery, In Victoria.  And some of his early woks in 1998 in Brooklyn, New York, also 2000, in the Stoke Yard, in Melbourne.
    Some of his recent group exhibitions in 2010 include Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone, Bristol building intervention, Bell Primary Preston, and McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Gallery, Victoria. Others like the Wrong town, House intervention, South Yarra, Melbourne, and Toorak Sculpture Prize, and lastly the SPILL, Arc One Gallery.
    And no grate artist can call them self grate with getting a few award hear and there. Robbie Rowland has been awarded a few such as the Tina Wentcher Prize in 1997, the Julius Kane Memorial Scholarship in 1998. Also the PRATI Institute Exchange Program in 1998, and the Pat Corrigan Artists Grant in 2001. The two recent ones include the Bonanza Award in 2002, and the Australia Council New work Grant in 2005.
    Looking at his works of art really gets me inspired to be more creative in my works of art. I would only draw and that was it, but ever sense I saw his work I have been trying to work on building and creating amazing art works. I just hope that others could see his work and be as inspired and I am right now.




 

    Robbie Rowland works of art is very different from others you would see in a museum or a typical statue. He goes and takes everyday objects and turns them into his artwork. All of his art works came from floorboards or a wall that he ripped and shaped. But as the years went on he got more creative with his work. Such a Turing a silo in to one of his art works and stop sings and other objects you would pass by.
    There is this one work of art witch he took a chair and deformed it, the chair looks like it collapsed in its self and ford this stunning piece of art. I am in love with everything he does and hopes that he can top the work of arts that he has done so far.

By Dylan Fakira

Vik Muniz

Yejide Lever

Vik Muniz

Another day of waking up early in the morning to lectures from my psychology teacher, and sitting through my English class. Although I love English and love to write, the day can be a drag with those two classes in my Thursday mornings. Psychology class is over, off to English where I’m strolling to hear that I most likely have another project to complete. Sure enough it never fails to hear the teacher say something of this sort, “Soooooo, who in here likes art?”

 The classroom is silent as usual. Everyone looks at the Professor with a blank face. In order for someone to respond, she calls on a student which forces them to answer the question. I always think to myself, “Some people just don’t like English that much or maybe it’s too early in the morning.” The professor starts to elaborate on why she asked that question. She says, “Okay guys, we are going to have another…….,” at this time all I hear is “blah blah.” Once again I am right. This is the beginning of a new writing assignment, where we have to research an artist that is alive and include resource information. The artist that was given to me by my professor is Vik Muniz.

In the streets of Sao Paulo Brazil, Vik Muniz was born in 1961. He grew up into a stable home with his family as a child. In the 1980’s, Vik Muniz was breaking up a fight in his home town, and was shot in his leg in the process. Although this might have seemed like a down fall in life, it was the start of his art career. After receiving compensation from his injuries, he had enough money to move to New York City, where he started a new life as an artist.(wastelandmovie)

When Muniz first moved to New York City, he was mostly interested on making sculptures. After focusing on sculptures, he then introduces his self into another form of art. Some of Vik Muniz famous art work is a PP&J Mona Lisa and, pictures of chocolate. Vik Muniz started to find untraditional materials to form his style of art. He began to use cotton, wire, thread, dirt, diamond, sugar, syrup, and many more unusual materials in the art world. Vik Muniz would make an art piece out of “raw material”, and turn it into photographs. The reason for photographing it was because, if he used some type of food substance, it can easily be ruined. Photographing the art work would allow it to have the same taste from when it was originally made. The fact that he used so many unusual items to make his art pieces, made his work extraordinary.(wikipedia)

While searching for many of Vik Muniz art work, I couldn’t exactly find one that drew my attention. I decided to search more in depth about his work. I finally found something that interests me in many ways. It wasn’t only one piece of art work, it was a countless amount.

When I was researching for art work, I decided to look up videos on YouTube that shows some of Vik Muniz pieces. I came across a video that was named, “Artist Vik Muniz’s Installation at MoMA”. The video is originally from timeoutnewyork.com/video. MoMA is an abbreviation for the Museum of Modern Art. This video is based on Vik Muniz being interviewed by the editor at large (Howard Halle), about the pieces he has selected to be in an exhibition at the museum. Vik Muniz states how he went about picking the numerous pieces of art for his exhibition.

 Muniz states, “One piece and see which one comes next. I wanted to do a show about objects”(youtube). Muniz was selecting his art work starting with one piece to see which one he thought fell into place with the one before. My interpretation of using objects is using art work that has verbs. For example, an artist can have many different things in their art work, such as a person, being in a place, or just have many things in it. Howard Halle says to Muniz, “The show is called Rebus…can you explain that for me”(youtube). Vik Muniz continues to say, “Well a rebus is two languages trying to make sense… trying to create meaning”(youtube). The pieces were objects paired together in order for the viewers to have a feeling to two completely different pieces, that Vik Muniz felt was related in some way.

In the video, the object of art work that was paired together that caught my attention was a portrait drawer drawing a boxer, and a portrait that says, “I will not make any more boring art”(youtube). Although the portraits seem very different, I can relate them to each other. I feel that myself as a viewer made the two portraits as a story. The portrait drawer is painting a person, and next to it is a portrait that says “I will not make any more boring art”, as if the drawer were saying that to the boxer. I think Vik Muniz was very clever to use objects that were totally different to many people and in some way know that they were related. It makes sense to me the reason why the exhibition is name “Rebus”. He took two things and tried to make sense out of them.

Seeing Vik Muniz’s art exhibition makes me look at art in a totally different way. As a viewer of art work, you have to be very open minded to what you think an artist is trying to express in his or her pieces. Something so simple can mean so much more than what people think. I think Vik Muniz is very visual in what he wants to portray in his art work. It interests me how Vik Muniz set up his exhibition of art work. Muniz art exhibition is my favorite work that he has done. Also, I really enjoyed looking deeper into the portraits that were paired together, especially the one I discussed.

Yejide Lever

                As a viewer I noticed Vik Muniz art work is very abstract and different. In one of his art works, he painted two pictures of Mona Lisa. The difference between these two pictures and the original of Mona Lisa is that both pictures were made out of food substances. One was mad out of peanut butter, and the other was made out of jelly. Now, when people think about peanut butter and jelly, they usually associate it with the classic sandwich PB&J.

            There is another art work that he did that was very similar to the Mona Lisa pictures. The art work was untitled, but the image itself obviously described it, which could allow viewers to come up with a name for it. Vik Muniz made a piece that was a plate, and on top of the plate was spaghetti. People might wonder, how is this art work? You will realize that in the piece there is a face made out of spaghetti.  

As I explained, Vik Muniz work is very abstract. Because of all of the rare material he uses, it makes his art work interesting to see. I believe that Vik Muniz art works evokes emotion to a viewer. He uses unexpected material that allows the viewer, such as myself to see that art work is not only about using paint brush and paper. No one would ever think that you can use food to create art that is unusual.

CHARLES ATLAS ESSAY

Brittney Salisbury

Professor Lintz

En 101

5/16/11

                                    Charles Atlas Research Paper

I don’t believe Charles Atlas’ work defamilarizes us the viewers. I just believe that he takes basic things that happens and turns them into something spectacular. Tornados happen in everyday all over the world. It’s nothing that we haven’t already seen or been exposed to. The news shows it us everyday. Also with his piece “Teach” where Leigh Bowery has his cheeks pierced as well as lip synchs doesn’t do too much defamiliarizing either. Although I liked the piece very much it’s not anything out of the ordinary. People pierce any and everything know a days to where it’s the same thing different day someone else just reinventing it. Atlas did no more then removes the Vail of a mystery that I was already in fact familiar with.

It makes you feel at peace with yourself you can recognize evolution. Your taking a basic past concept that you’ve actually had the opportunity to realize the evolution that has actually happened. You can it helps to see things that are constantly changing. People change with time, time changes with the evolution. So something that something odd then becomes something so ordinary that there’s recognition in which his envision evolve.

Yinka Shonibare Profile & Mini Essay by: Simi

(Simi) Manraj Rana :)

May 11, 2011

Professor: Lintz

       As I sit in the quite room of the library, I start to wonder about my last English paper. Trying to decide which living artist to choose from, nothing struck me. I was completely lost. There were so many interesting people with great art work. So I decided to leave it on to my professor to choose an artist for me. Yinka Shonibare I saw in an email as my research artist. At first I taught it was a women but later when I goggled it, it turned out to be a man. Art for me is mostly the lively, energetic, and fun filled pieces put together, and Shonibare did that with his unique skills. It interested me to keep looking at his images and inspired me to learn more about what his art is all about.

 Yinka Shonibare is a Nigerian artist who was born in London in 1962 and grew up in the UK and Nigeria. In the 1980s he studied in London at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated as part of the “Young British Artists” generation from Goldsmiths College in 1991. (Art News) He currently lives and works in the East End of London.  At the age of 19 he became seriously ill with a rare viral infection which attacked his spine and left him temporarily paralyzed. (New York Times) Shonibare was a Turner prize nominee in 2004 and awarded the decoration of Member of the “Most Excellent Order of the British Empire”. Where he added the MBE title to his name.  (Yinka Shonibare)

Since the 1990s Shonibare has exhibited internationally. His work has featured in numerous solo and group shows, including Sydney, New York, Washington D.C. London, Paris, Tokyo and many others. Shonibare is also represented by two galleries in New York (Shonibare blogspot). A retrospective of Yinka Shonibare’s work has just been shown at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, followed by the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, and his  project will be inaugurated in Trafalgar Square on May 24, 2010 (Gallery) .

Shonibare is best known for making headless mannequins like “How to Blow up Two Heads at Once” He uses his famous colorful Dutch wax fabrics which is known as “African batik fabric”(shonibare blogspot). The wax fabrics was designed in the Dutch Colony and later ended up as an export to Africa as a fashion icon (Times). He incorporates the fabric into Victorian dresses, by covering sculptures of or stretching it onto canvases. Shonibare uses the fabric as a metaphor to address issues of origin and authenticity.

People from all over respect Shonibare art work. Many refer to his master pieces as   the so-called “African Dandy” where all he expresses is sensuality, energy, humor, instinct, sophistication, mystery, and joy, under a profound influence of his native country (New York Times). A reviewer of the Brooklyn Meausum said” His work is to surprise and inspire, to leave speechless, or to prompt, to comprise while at the same time enlighten the audience ". He produces a seductive work in which there is issues of taste involved, and issues of class (Telegraph).

   

 "I have always viewed art as a form of opera, or as being operatic," Shonibare explained in 2004. "And opera is excessive; it is beyond the real, and therefore hyper-real." (YinkaShonibare). Since his work involves around his upbringings Shonibare says his piece will reflect the story of multiculturalism in London. A celebration of immense ethnic wealth, giving expression to and honoring the many cultures and ethnicities.

Shonibare art work has a strongly contemporary feel, but at the same time they engage with the traditions and masterworks of western art history. He uses his creativity to make people explore the different aspects of different cultures. The headless mannequins like” How to Blow up Two Heads at Once.” To me it shows a sense of power. It evokes emotion of bravery and standing up for the rights of women. It shows a soft famine side of the headless women through their long Victorian gowns. The results turn out to be very poetic and playful. Shonibare's work takes us on a tour of colonization, to space exploration and to modern art.  Much of Shonibare's work is about transforming the familiar western history into new contexts by adding humor and unhidden meaning. At first the headless sculptures really caught my eye but when I went in dept with his art work I was truly amazed with the different story backgrounds Shonibare plays with. It gave me a sense of interest and amazement.

(Mini Essay) Shonibare’s art. 

       According to Leo Tolstoy, “In order to correctly define art, it is necessary to first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and to consider it as one of the conditions of human life.” While according to Robert J. Belton “Art defines itself throughout the human agency of manual skills, Intellectual manipulation, or public or person expression which is the art of conversation. I believe Yinka Shonibare’s artwork fulfills both Tolstoy and Belton requirement of art.

 His art work provokes emotion of bravery, shows hidden meaning of cultural background and creates a sense of empowerment throughout his sculptures.  It gives us as the audience something to talk about and conversant of what really is going on in his headless mannequins. One of Shonibare’s famous works is “how to blow up two heads at once.” Shonibare’s dazzling use of Dutch wax fabric on headless mannequins provokes powerful statements about identity and race in the modern world. At first when I look at his artwork, I was confused. I didn’t understand the meaning of his headless mannequins, but when I started looking at his other artwork it struck to me that everything was dealing with the history of imperialism. It slowly started to make sense.

Shonibare second idea of his artwork is his Victorian sculptures. Shonibare says, “So Victorian for me actually means conquest and imperialism, and so, in a sense, it is actually my fear. So what I then decided to do was actually con front my fear and faces my fear.” (Shonibare). A lot of Shonibare work came out of his desire to face his fear and turn it into parody. His art mainly basically explores issues around identity and it’s about his bi-cultural background in a way. His artwork is very descriptive and fun to look at. The different textures of the Dutch fabrics creates a very adventurous piece overall. I would definitely want to visit Shonibare’s exhibit in the future.

Judith Supine Profile & News Letter

Yadira Bernal 

English-101/B14

Profile of Judith Supine

My professor from my English 101 class decided to assign our last project on a research paper regarding art work of only living artist for instance, an artists' that’s: a painter or sketcher. Also, she wanted us to do a profile research about the artist. In my opinion, I am not really a big art fan but for some reason when my eyes came up with the artist by the name of Judith Supine art work. I was just caught in the moment of just looking at his art work images, I got to view You Tube interviews, and reading other peoples comments about his work. Clearly, it made me feel the same exact way, like how the other people were expressing their opinions on his art work.

In his profile indicates that he was born and raised in Portsmouth, VA: Judith Supine is an internationally renowned collage artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Using an exacto knife, glue sticks, cheap paints and pictures found in magazines he creates works inspired by his imagination that he pastes all over cities billboards around the world. ART FEED Judith Supine RVA Magazine Richmond, VA Articles.mht

Judith Supine is an artist in his late thirty’s. Supine could not speak until a month after his seventeenth birthday. He could not physically pronounce words, he could only squeak and mumble. Also, Supine often drew imagines to speak with his family. His mom set aside all of his pictures in a portfolio to keep for her memory. This shows one of the many reasons why his mom is great and special to him and thank her on who he became to be throughout his career. www.artnet.com/artists/judith-supine

Judith Supine uses materials that are free and/or at least real cheap. He uses an exacto-knife, glue sticks, cheap ugly paints and real sleazy magazines pictures that make him sexually uncomfortable. Judith Supine gets his magazines out of people's trash, the public library, the dentist's offices, his little sister's magazine collection, and bankrupt porn shops. http://www.woostercollective.com

When you look at his pictures you feel a sense of reality of none life objects that are very bright colors to portray images with none object material. He uses a female face that looks like as if she is crying. One can see flower plants coming out of her eye lends and mouth. And he uses her face, eyes on top of her head representing a hat with a high of more flowers plants on it. All these are combined with very bright dark colors. Colors that he mixes and matches: bright red on her lips combined it with green colors on the plants. Her hat is a dark black with teal blue above her hat with forest green plants. Her eye balls were dark green and around her eyes are purple. All the flowers were hot pink. He plants the faces features as neon green making the pictures glow in the dark.

His art work is “Hyper Active Imaginations” of female and male portrays with his imagination of cultural pictures. He showcased in 2007 collages of “The psychedelic and surreal canvases.” He states “His high Light Street Art and his characters are controlled confusion and disorder, stream of consciousness to the environment.” It portrays Judith Supine as energetic and innovative person because of his creativity on his art collages. Juxtapoz Magazine - Studio Visit with Judith Supine Features.mht

In my opinion, I really enjoyed researching and learning about his work. I found his work very appealing.  All it took was for me to find him online and do some research. During the time, I found his pictures very impressive and entertaining. Judith Supine collections of Wooster inspired me to choose him as my artist to do my research paper on.

 News Letter

Throughout the research on my artist Judith Supine, I had been realizing that he tends to express two types of ideas that symbolize his Art work images. One force he to identify his Art as street Art in the streets of New York and another is inside Art galleries that his Art pictures locates inside of. One of the ideas is that Supine shares similar ways tore an artist by the name of bell hooks. They both share this idea which it is called defamiliarization of Art. The meaning of De-familiarize is or ostranenie is the artistic technique of forcing the audience to see common things in an unfamiliar or strange way. Judith supine is a very unique individual but very random in his own ways to express his pictures vision on what he is trying to say from his imagination on how his mind works when he creates his Art pieces. Supine expresses reality through his painting to the world by hanging his paintings in very odd places to get people’s attention.  He gathers and cuts certain pictures from catalogs and magazines and glues them to form certain patterns in black and white most of the time from scratch. Then, he build’s his creativity vision in his head to ending up making a very beautiful paintings hanging around NYC. Judith supine identifies his Art as street art because that is where he displays his work most of the time through his days working and most people notices his work in the streets then the galleries.

               The second idea that Judith supine uses in his Art work is called infectious. Supine relates this idea from an artist by the name of Leo Tolstoy. Infectious to contaminate or corrupt: envy that infected their thoughts; a society that was infected by racism or to affect in a contagious way, for example "His fear infected me, and I followed as fast as I could" (W.H. Hudson).  Judith purposes were to share his imagination with society and talent to the world by posting and selling his work online and galleries. “Art is a human activity consciously in this that is one man consciously, by means if certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he was lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experienced them. Quoted by Leo Tolstoy!

H.R Giger

                                                                                                    

Biography On H.R Giger by Eddy Ferreira

            My First Exporse to Giger's work was as it was to many, The 1979 hit, Alien, His Creatures invoked Fear and awe in my young mind back then. I thought nothing much of it at the time other than to flee and never see the film again. When I was in My teens I was buying Music and came across a band known in the Music Underground as Celtic Frost. There Album Cover entitled To Mega Therion was Painted by none other than Giger himself. after much research doing for that album cover, not only did i become a follower in his church of dark paintings, I asked myself, what does it take to bring out such Morbid Designs into the Spot light.

            Giger was born in Chur, Graubünden canton, Switzerland in February 5 1940. He comes from a family of well known Chemist in Switzerland. In 1962 , he moved o Zurich, Where he began his first Art works which mostly consisted of Ink drawings and oil paintings. Which later on it resulted in his First Solo exhibition  A short while later he discovered the airbrush and developed his own unique freehand painting using the airbrush.

            One of Giger's most famous and renowned work was his involvement on the creature concepts and the set pieces for the 1979 blockbuster hit, Alien. A film dircted by Ridley Scott. Ridley Scott contracted Giger   after seeing his published art book called the Necromonicon which the aliens in the movies derived and were inspired from. Ridley went to Switzerland to talk with Giger and get him working on the on the creatures and Set pieces in the Film. According to Giger he said that is was suppose to done within a few weeks but those weeks turned into 7 month. All of that hard work paid off, In 1979 the film was released and it became a Success and in 1980 Giger was Awarded an Oscar for his art work and creature design in the film.   

            As a child Giger was tormented by nightmares he would have and he would dream about gigantic bottomless shafts and a stairway that would lead down into a dark abyss as he would describe. As A child he would build Skeletons out of cardboard, wires and Plaster. One a Interesting note he also has an overwhelming disgust of snakes and worms which are projected throughout his well known art work.

            Most of Giger's Critics and Reviewers praise his artworks and leave a Positive review on his artwork. One reviewer at the New York times praises how he combines the elements of the erotic and fuse them with ferocity of the way he paints, "A mysterious blend of erotic beauty and ferocity"- New York Times. Another Timothy Leary best known for his psychedelic therapy said " Giger, you are an alien lurking inside my body, laying your futique eggs of wonder".

            After many readings and watching of the film alien, I can rest assure that Giger's work invoke a strong sense of mystery and decentralizes what I thought as weird. He can peer into a Humans deep and dark subconscious and bring them out into the spotlight. When His pictures are out in the spot lights, rest assure they will Plant a Face hugger and lay it's eggs into your brain. Invoking both Awe and Fear. His work Surely did all of this and more to my mind.