Sharon Louden

Last Tuesday Sharon Louden provided our lecture. I thought her work was really intriguing, I especially loved the installation she did in a dining room. These pieces of glass hung from the ceiling above a dining room table, which would kind of freak me out when I'm eating, but it looked so beautiful. I also really liked the concept for a commissioned painting that is now hanging directly above a bed. What made it so awesome was that it was painted in glow in the dark paint, but in fifteen minutes the paint would gradually fade and become dark again, kind of like a gradual night light. I had never really seen paintings done on mylar before, so that was really interesting too. I'm currently using mylar in my 2D class for a printing project, and I had never thought of it being used as a surface to paint on. I really liked also how her formal training informed her more abstract work. The "squiggles" she worked so much with were really interesting, and I think they sort of had a figural attitude. I also thought it was neat that she worked with Golden paint company to produce a new color of glow in the dark paint. The neon green is so generic and over-used, so it added a whole new dimension to her work because she was able to work with the company to create that blue glow-in-the-dark paint.