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Artist: Joseph DeLappe Media: Sculpting, installations, Website: http://delappe.net/ Instagram: josephdelappe
Artist: Micol Hebron Media: digital artist Website: http://micolhebron.artcodeinc.com/ Instagram: Unicornkiller1
First of all, Micol Hebron is an artist, activist, and a professor in Chapman University teaching studio arts and professional gallery practices to all her students. Micol Hebron runs several feminist programs and initiatives where she takes on the role of director for her Feminist Summer Camp located in Utah. She classifies herself as a creator of the digital male nipple pasty because she created a template for nudity on social media where it can be acceptable. Hebron studied studio theater and visual arts at the University of California, San Diego, but graduated from UCLA with a Masters of Fine Arts in new genres and contemporary art history. Back in 2013, Hebron launched a project where people from all over the world tracked the representation of women in art galleries and created posters for the exhibition. Joseph DeLappe however, is a UK based American artist and academic whose work illustrates his distaste for political power through new media installations and interactive gaming performances. DeLappe earned his Bachelor’s degree as well as an MA Computers in Art and Design and a Master of Fine Arts in Pictorial Arts from San Jose State University.
When looking at the formal analysis for Joseph DeLappe’s work, most of his sculptures represent famous buildings and architects such as the Statue of Liberty. In most of his sculptures, they are darkly colored with the shade of brown and the lines look very sharp with a mixture of straight and jagged lines. They are twice the size of DeLappe or any other human being. However, in his other works such as the plane or the gun, it is still very huge in size but the colors are bright and very different from his other sculptures. Both the gun and the plane’s lines are very straight with little to no jagged lines, but both contain curves in each area that are needed for a plane or a gun such as the top of the plane or the handle for the gun. In comparison to DeLappe’s work, Micol Hebron has little to no similarities. In most of Hebron’s work, it is the male nipple pasted on the female breast to avoid censorship for nudity because the male nipple is acceptable to post but not the female nipple. However, the coloring is bright and dark at the same time. The lines are curved with little to no straight lines as well for Hebron’s work.
In DeLappe’s work, he is trying to represent and convey his dissatisfaction and distaste towards the power in politics because it defined his purpose when he got involved in political art. That can be shown through his statue of liberty work where the statue’s head is pointed downwards almost representing that the statue is sad and depressed. This work can represent that liberty is dead or forgotten because of the people in power in the government. His other works such as the sculpture of someone dead on the floor holding a gun in his hand can represent his distaste towards the act of gun control with the government as well. His Dead-in-Iraq project however, is a recruitment tool to memorialize the name and date of every US servicemen who died in Iraq. Hebron’s work however, is about censorship of the women body, mostly the nipple and not the male body. In protest to social media’s nipple and nudity policy, Hebron created an acceptable template that went viral in which people can crop out the male nipple and paste it onto the female breast for posting. Most of Hebron’s work is in protest of censorship.
In my opinion, I can’t really relate or resonate with Hebron’s work because I’ve never been the type of person to read to be interested in censorship in social media. However, for DeLappe’s work, his distaste for political power is similar to mine because I HATE everything relating to politics. I can understand why he made his sculptures the way it is, especially the Statue of Liberty one.
