Devin Kovach

interested in observation

• the way we see the places we inhabit 
• how we perceive these places
• how we understand that place

How he makes his work

• printmaking is his passion

but photography and instillation is something else that is compelling. different ways of dealing with visual information

The experience of living in the city. Santa Fe, New Mexico. the transition of being in the open. Moved to Scotland.

• the weight to the city the stone, heavy air and complete opposite to where he grew up.

Dealt with the change of atmosphere by drawings, how he showed the intense and chaotic environment and how it was a psychological dealings.  There is a relationship between his drawings and how he moved and saw the city.

• he had to get out of the tight one point perspective.

This work culminated in his thesis exhibition

• map imagery 
• way to keep a connection to that place and maintaining a personal connection

he wanted to change the scale of his work
but also pushing it into the viewers pace

making the formation of a building that is "heavy" and make them light and transform

took a little break before going to grad school

1. expand practice
2. expand the ideas of art that you are making
3. seek out opinions for why to go to grad school
4. choose a program that best fits you not just for the name

Tyler School of art for his MFA

• everything that seemed clear.. it totally changed
• thinking not just making
• expand the ideas that go into your work
• defining conceptual work

constant onslaught of critiques and visits and pieces, shocking of finding that the confidence of making art. so he fell bak on what he knew that he knew well. His solution was to make things more complex.  He came to a new environment but he kept reaching back to undergrad for insperation, something was just off to him.

The use of left overs from old works

• how the paper hung in space and how it made interesting details and perspectives
• depth, perspective, and dynamic space.
• it seemed too easy that it must not be a serious. high lights the importance of play in studio time. Make mistakes 

having a studio to go to all the time

making constructions and instillation sketches

"all the interesting work i have done is against all the ideas I have had.."- william kentradge

-painters tape
-dowel rods
-scrim fabric
>^lines of the scaffolding and the lines of the building that was just a silly sketches and then it became an exercise of a flat space and it started to invade the studio. not just an imaginary place a real place that he had a relationship to. drawing attention to something that may seem mundane and a nuisance. this began to set things in motion and nature and construction was constantly impacting the piece.

Taking pictures of the windows instillation and how these photographs departed from the reality of the space. we are so used to seeing and understanding without really trying and his images make you stop and take a second look. working between photography and the installation.

The experience of travel

• mentally stimulating
• 2nd year in rome
• how was it going to translate in a different context
• you take nothing for granted because you are unfamiliar to the place. and to him this equates to inspiration
• roman architecture added into his work
• impression of spaces, relating to ruins and the memories to a place and a space
• to not invoke structure but to only reference it 
• photography because more prominent, black and white,  the dark room the relationship of process
• impression of the light around you
• light became and element in his work, how light transforms and confuses space
• fabric and light(video projection)
• light phenomena from Rome

Using light made him think about how time affect the pieces, using the little light phenomena
everything was site specific
the layers of architecture and the layers of light that came from the place itself. The element of time is still playing a roll. How night and day translated to different spaces

how people impact the art and space. using residency as an outlet to make more work

the illusion of space and light and making the viewer stand away from his instillation and how it changes the relationship. Seeing and understanding and seeing and believing. Then taking photographs of special spaces.
"..seeing something that isn't visible"- Norman McClean  A River Runs through it

Prints, use of photographs and distorting them.
Associations of what home means, a deep connection a place you have seen in different seasons and seeing it over time. What was the original scene?

last thought
get outside , your country, your town, your social group engage as much as you can. There is so much happening and you have to look at the different views of reality.