Week 8- Artist- Joseph DeLappe & Micol Hebron

Joseph DeLappe is a UK-based American artist that is also the professor of Games and Tactical Media at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland. While Micol Hebron is an American artist and a video and performance artist who worked in Los Angeles for the last 15 years. DeLappe’s interest is in online gaming performance, sculpture, and electromechanical installation. Hebron's interests are in video art, performance art, and new media. Both of the artists mainly deal with newer media that relates to technology and also sculptures.

Many of DeLappe’s sculptures have sharp lines and they are larger than what they would be in real life. The sculptures were mostly simple colors with smooth textures and it is mostly staccato. In contrast, most of Hebron’s art is more abstract and usually there are rough lines and more colors. The size of them is a bit on the larger side but not as big as DeLappe’s. The art is also jagged and the textures are rougher.

I feel that Joseph DeLappe's main message that he tries to get across from his work is violence and especially dealing with terrorism and with how the United States deals with it. He portrays his sculpture as grand to let people get a better look at what is really going on. He also incorporates many weapons and guns into his sculptures. On the other side, Micol Hebron’s themes in her art deal with feminism and question gender norms. This often has to deal with why society perceives women or men in different ways like how she protested Instagram's nipple policy that didn’t allow women to show their nipple but allowed men to.

Both of these artists' work was impactful for me because to society their work seems kinda extreme. With DeLappe his sculptures keep guns and violence at the forefront and make it so large that people need to take notice. With Hebron, her art makes it so we question what we believe is right for what women to be and makes women’s sexuality less taboo. I felt that both of their art is important and we should all question ourselves what society thinks is right and what we think is right.