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I recently got an internship with Next New Networks and will be contributing to the cuteness of Ultra Kawaii.com   

If you’re an animal lover, be sure to check it out!

I completely redid my portfolio site. Please update your links to http://artiztic.net/art Thanks!

updates to resume, digital, and mixed media in the art section. more to come.

Alina Bachmann
Junior Showcase
Colored pencils and acrylic on paper
Images drawn in Photoshop with a tablet

     What right do we as humans have to control and confine animals? Especially since essentially we are animals ourselves.
     We capture and collect animals to look at and observe. We test our products on them and inject them with various poisons in hopes of medical or scientific advancement. We lock them up behind steel bars for our children to look at as a source of entertainment. We remove them from their natural environments and contain them within the walls of a zoo.
Zoos are set up much like art museums; you enter and there are signs pointing to various exhibits.  There are the cats, the canines, the primates, the birds, and all the various other sectors of species. You walk to whichever group you’re interested in seeing, and there they are, arranged just like artworks in the gallery of a museum. Only now the artwork is gazing back at you from its captivity.
     With this installation, I wanted to imitate an animal exhibit at the zoo. I did a series of 20 colored pencil drawings, using acrylic paint with some, in a 3 x 4” format. I chose to work so small because I want the viewer to come close and really look at each drawing. I want the viewer to establish and consider a more personal connection with each animal featured.
     The labels along the bottom of the showcase mock the typical zoo exhibit. The information used on these labels was obtained from National Geographic, the World Wildlife Fund, and Defenders of Wildlife. I did a series of 19 drawings drawn on the computer that directly relate to the animals in pencil drawings.  Upon visiting a zoo during the course of creating this showcase, I noticed that the animals pictured on the labels at the zoo differed greatly from those that were behind them. The labels show animals in the wild. There are no bars, no concrete floors, and no indication of captivity. The information I’ve included describes some of the devastating effects humans have on the 19 animals featured in this exhibit. This is only a small portion of the thousands of animals that exist today and the thousands of others that have gone extinct because of humans. 

  

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 closer views of individual pieces can be found in the art section under drawings and digital.

I will be adding some recent work to the art section tomorrow as well as some photos from my first solo art exhibit.

click to view art section

new drawings are slowly being added…I just added 9 of a series of 12. I need to rephotograph the last 3.

Mixed media will have about 25 pieces added to it. (4 shortly, 21 will be added in the next month as I do not have the pieces with me to photograph) 1 piece with multiple views added!

Sculpture will have 2 new pieces added to it. one has now been added

and the Digital section will have several additions as well.

coming soon.

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12 new drawings.

currently working on two welded metal sculptures, and a drawing series done in glass beads.

Sorry for the site being down for the past couple of days. My hosting expired and the company took a bit longer than usual to get it back up. But it’s here, and will be for another year.

 new section added to my portfolio. More will be added eventually.

I am available for commissioned work and custom art/graphics/web design.

If you’re interested, comment this entry and I will get back to you. I’d appreciate if you could include what exactly you’d like and a price range for what you’re willing/able to spend.