Installation Art

Here are the images of my Installation piece......
http://s1168.photobucket.com/albums/r484/NatalieDKorchowsky/Installation%20Art%20Project/?albumview=slideshow

A. Installation Art is a contemporary form of art that incorporates 3-D sculpture to occupy and often define a specific location.
B. Any kind of material can be used to make installation art, be it refuse, made made or nature. Even sound can be used to create this kind of art.
C. Installation art is made for many different reasons, it can be used to address ideas and issues of deep social consequence such as violence, war, mass media, or consumerism. It can also be made to explore form and space in a purely aesthetic way.
D. One installation artist that interests me the most is Robert Smithson. I really thought that his earth work, Spiral Jetty has been an important piece of contemporary art. I think it is interesting how he uses nature and explores it's fleeting and impermanent qualities. None of his piece are meant to be permanent, but to decompose with natural ebb and flow of the elements.

My installation piece was created with different refuse materials, such as old shoes, bottles, a tennis racquet and silk flowers. I spray painted these objects red and black and arranged them on a small end table in my dining room. I used the principle of unity, shape and color to create a dynamic composition. I wanted to  address the issue of consumerism with my piece, showing how all these objects that we buy eventually become refuse. However, we can give them new life by creating art out of refuse. I put it here in my dining room because this is where a lot of our clutter tends to accumulate, so I wanted the other members of my household to see it and think about their objects of consumerism.

I enjoyed the process of making a site specific piece of art, because it
really got me thinking creatively and experimentally. I thought immediately about what what kinds of materials I had available and where I would put them. I had fun doing this project, because in all my years of art school, I had never really made a piece of installation art.