A piece titled, ‘Untitled’ hung in a small hallway of Anoka-Ramsey Community College in Coon Rapids Minnesota.
Top Image-"Untitled", Bottom Image-Focusing on a part of the piece.
There were other pieces besides that piece…artwork from roughly eight other artists I would say. This piece by Kristina Mooney captured my attention the most.
The piece was done using Ink, Paper, and vellum on paper. I think it captured my attention the most because I, myself am drawn to using ink and paper. There is something simple about it yet intriguing. But it wasn’t just the type of medium used that captured my attention- the more I looked at Kristina Monney’s piece the more I discovered about the piece; hidden creatures and detailed lines that one wouldn’t notice if they quickly scanned their eyes over the piece.
I looked at some of Kristina Mooney’s other work. She seems to draw a lot of architect and buildings. She lives in Minneapolis, so I feel like she is creating works of images that have made an imprint in her mind of the everyday things that she sees in the city. Her one piece that I am reflecting on is different in the aspect that it doesn’t reflect on the city. It is a piece that shows many trees, a forest. I am not the artist, so this is a wild guess. But I feel like she wanted a change apart from the city. Since the piece doesn’t have a title… it may not have that deep of a meaning. I feel like she just wanted to create an image that was happy and pure in nature and away from manmade things. The image gives an enchanted feeling… and like I mentioned earlier, if you look closely, you discover little creatures. I think they are having fun and basking in this time of running through the woods. The usage of the line patterns of the tree bark is very nice. And she uses a nice contrast of dark and light lines. So in a nutshell, the words or phrases that I would use to describe her “Untitled” piece of art would be:
Enchanted, Forest, Remote from human development
But besides Kristina Mooney's "Untitled", since her work shows a lot of city images, I would describe her work as far from remote of human developement . Infact, I would describe most of her work as:
City life, Architect, Busy
*I could see Kristina Mooney’s work on a newspaper…. It has similar texture and colors. Therefore, to promote her work I would come up with post-card sized business cards with some of her work on them and somehow incorporate newspaper with the heading of the newspaper listing ‘Kristina Mooney’, with the heading stating a sentence that significantly describes her and then just a small paragraph about her work. What better way to capture the attention of somebody than showing images. I think it is very important for artists to have their work on flyers, business cards, and etcetera. It would take long, but I would do this by using an old school typewriter and type up the postcard sized ‘Name and info’ on old looking paper to get the newspaper look. Then I would put that unto a thick piece of postcard-like paper and then have small images of some of her work that I would also put in front of the newspaper. Finishing it off I would use ink to write Kristina Mooney’s contact information at the bottom. I think that besides the postcards…. Flyers could also be done this way… as well as scanning the finished information/contact card or flyer and digitally posting it on your facebook page, blog, or whatever social network it is that you use online.
