Abstract and Gallery Comics by one of my art classes in Liechtenstein

Here are some new Abstract and Gallery Comics from the Art Academy of Liechtenstein Foundation Course class who study with me (Mark Staff Brandl). You have to scroll through to find one type or the other as they are mixed together.

Link: http://gallerycomics.blogspot.com/2012/03/abstract-and-gallery-comics-from.html

Brandl: Sorta Abstract

This is a link to larger images from my last, 50-foot (15 meter) long, 12-foot (3.5 meter) high comic "installation." It is not abstract, yet is non-narrative, thus abstract in one of Andre's senses. My Metaphor(m): Meninas
Link here.

Sequentiality, Abstraction and Representation

(click on image to enlarge)

I've been working on a series of sequences (so comic strips, actually) as planning for several new stone lithos which will be leporellos, yet also I am working toward "gallery comic" installations as well. I'm attempting to make them ride the line between apparent abstraction and loose representationalism. Hence, as my art school profs would have it, they are indeed abstract, at least abstracted, but not fully non-representational. My work of this nature is usually quite large and the surfaces are very haptic, so scale and surface enter into it as well: due to them, many people do not notice any representations at all. Reproduced small, as on this website, the impression is of course quite different, but I very intrigued by the idea of flirting with but defying full abstract AND full delineation.