Muto's Wonderful Website

Since the page on this blog is inadequate, I decided to create a website to display my portfolio. All of my serious work is organized with the title, date, dimensions, and media. I used a free flash website creator, so if you have an up to date flashplayer you can enjoy all of my works organized properly for the first time.

There are some new sculptures, photographs, and designs that I have never shown before. There are also one or two new drawings and paintings. This is the first time I have titled most of my works, click on the pictures to see the information.

http://www.wix.com/mynameismuto/greghalloran

Muto's Monster Face

A lot of my artwork is influenced by digital photography. Here is one example of a digital image I created that inspired both a painting and a sculpture.


The digital image from 2008


The painting from 2009


The sculpture from 2010

© 2010 Gregory Halloran

Muto's Motto #6

There Is No Bad Time For Bubbles

© 2010 Gregory Halloran

Muto's Multicolored Mobile

The final project for my introduction to sculpture class was to create a self-portrait mobile. I decided that in order to represent myself, the mobile should not be the work of art, but the artist. I wanted to make a mobile that would place paint on a canvas with a locomotion of its own that I could not quite control.

To complete this task, I made five casts of my own hand and filled each with paint water. The colors of the paint correspond to the emotions of the individual hand gestures. The hands are attached to a bicycle tire which is suspended from the ceiling above a circular canvas.

When the mobile is activated, the hands drip paint onto the canvas below. The water leaving the hands at different rates causes the mobile to spin.

The canvas contains an image representing a range of emotions from calm to chaotic. The colors shift and flow together on the surface of the canvas. Eventually the paint runs out and the work of the mobile is finished. A tie-dye-style canvas is the end result, but the process of the mobile is just as important.

Here is a video of the mobile in action.



© 2010 Gregory Halloran

Muto's Motto #5

Reach out your hand, if your cup be empty
If your cup is full, may it be again
~Grateful Dead

This is a piece I donated to www.water.org back in high school. I thank them for helping with the world water crisis and providing myself and other artists with a great opportunity.

Muto's Moment #6

If living in the moment implies a freedom from constructions of the past and illusions of the future, then there can be no plans.

An experience separated from the habit of planning can be focused on for what it is, not what it could have been.

© 2010 Gregory Halloran

Muto's Pedagogic Portrait #1

I made this portrait in my first drawing class at UNC. It is charcoal on white paper. I wanted the light hair and shirt to show up without drawing a whole background, so I had fun with the stylized swoosh.



© 2010 Gregory Halloran

Muto's Minis #10

This is a little video I made in the past few hours.



© 2010 Gregory Halloran