This particular show was about anything human-powered transportation related concept. It was a group show held in a quaint gallery located nearby downtown San Jose. Located near San Jose State University, neighboring cluster of art colonies and adjacent to the heart of San Jose's art action and First Fridays. Art Ark Gallery hosts multi-dimensional shows every year.
In this show I entered these three pieces. These pieces were drawn on printed maps. The idea of this drawing fits the theme of the show because it showed detail studies of a child's tricycle, which is human-powered. This is how the illustration related to the show.
The illustrations were drawn on a map to offset the tangibility of what a map is; it disrupted that conventionality. A map is not a traditional drawing paper utilized in art. So, by utilizing a map as an art material it created a different effect visually and logically. By overlaying a study of a still on an unconventional art material defied that tradition of map making. The idea of cartography becomes integrated with illustration making it an interesting art. The pieces became contemporary somehow.
(*below were pictures from the reception on Friday, May 4, 2012.)
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