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Monday, July 14, 2008

Off to Harold

Today I am heading to eastern Ohio for a two week residency with Harold Arts. No cell phones, no e-mail and lots of other artists...what more can I ask for?

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Thursday, July 10, 2008

More Still Life

Sam Taylor-Wood has also explored contemporary conceptions of 17th century still life painting. How interesting that she has chosen to place an ink pen in front of the fruit arrangement in the first video and then a piece of fruit in front of the rabbit in the second video. These videos are shot in high definition and unfortunately the crappy reproductions I am posting don't do them the justice they deserve. Someone should start high def you tube.

**Fair Warning: the second video is not for those with a weak stomach.


Still Life, 2001


A Little Death, 2002

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A Limited Edition

Humble Arts Foundation is selling a limited edition of one of my pieces. Check it out right here.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Laura Letinsky is Awesome

I think Laura Letinsky is an amazing photographer and her new body of work "To Say Isn't So" has been on my mind ever since I saw it at Art Chicago. In these pictures, she has replaced rotting fruit and domestic deitrus remensient of dutch still life painting with another sort of memento mori...consumer waste. A target bag, a soda can and dispoable cuttlery - these are the still lives of our time. The photographs are elegantly alluring, strangely sterile and disquieting. If you like the work, check out an interview with Laura on this Bad at Sports podcast.


Untitled #25


Untitled #9a


Untitled #9b


Untitled #4


Untitled #3

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Love=2 Grand

Does anyone have two grand to lend me? Jen Beckman featured a piece from Kent Rogowski's Love=Love series on 20x200 last week but the cheap prints sold out before I was able to snag one. I think this was the second or third piece featured by Rogowski and I still missed out. Bummer...that's what I get for not being on top of things. I guess I will have to settle for virtual ownership and just post one of his images on my blog.


Untitled #3 - Kent Rogowski, 2006
About the above image:
Apparently when puzzle manufactures make puzzles, they often use a single cutout pattern for multiple images. Rogowski has montaged different puzzle scenes that were made by the same manufacturer to create his photographs. I think you can buy the actual objects as well as the photographs.

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Saturday, June 7, 2008

The Tony Wight Gallery (formerly Bodybuilder and Sportsman) has been showing some very interesting work recently. On the heels of Ken Fandell's fascinating exhibition Part II: Until It Doesn't Matter, Isn't It, featuring works by Ivin Ballen, Pello Irazu, Richard Rezac, and Tamara Zahaykevich opens June 13. The work in the show focuses on the "interplay of material construction and representation...(by) confronting some potential disparities between modes of assembly and resemblance."

I am particularly excited by Pello Irazu's work. Irazu arranges and photographs generic, mass produced items such as boxes, chairs and ladders inside his studio and then paints onto the surface of his photographs. The paint resembles the utilitarian, unadorned shape and texture of cheap, mass produced building materials. I love the way the intertwined layers of production - sculpture to photograph to painting - comment on the interplay between physical object, photographic illusion and surface, but also have a parallel commentary on the physical and textural sensibilities of the construction of utilitarian objects and furniture. I can't wait to see the images in person!


Pello Irazu - La Fábrica (Belgrado) VIII, 2007
Acrylic paint on photographic support

And in case you missed it...

Ken Fandell - Part II: Until It Doesn't Matter, 2008
Installation View

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Grant Ray

I really like some of the work my friend Grant Ray has been making. He is working on a project that investigates visual aspects of communication. In these images, Grant cleverly imagines the rainbow reflection of a burned cd serving as an index for the information it contains. See more of Grant's work here.


Lost Season II


Fleetwood Mac


US Constitution

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