Turns out I’ll be going to China a little earlier than expected, which means, unfortunately, I’ll miss Bob Dylan in Monterey this August because travel plans changed, but in anticipation I had been reading the Essential Interviews, and came upon this, in an interview with Nora Ephron in ’65: Great paintings shouldn’t be in museums. [...]
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I’m tired of photographer interviews. The thing I start missing when people talk about photography and especially many of the more documentary oriented projects that I’m attracted to is any discussion of their creative process in terms of affect. So I’ve been reading interviews with PJ Harvey, and [...]
Last quarter we did blogs for the light class and one of the more interesting videos posted was this one, of some pretty complex stop-action art. (Thanks, Susan!) This quarter I’m taking some great classes. Alternative Processes, where we’ll be making cyanotypes, Van Dyke, palladium and gum prints, among other things. The Photo Book, which [...]
Marina Abramovic, Balkan Baroque still Like the Pulse Room, Balkan Baroque has a sheer visceral simplicity that really works for me, although clearly in a very different way. Marina Abramovic, in a white dress, cleaned the meat and gristle off that huge pile of bones and placed the clean ones in a new pile. She [...]
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Beautifully simple. His other work seems a bit overwhelmed by tech and the ideas are a bit inscrutable to be emotionally resonant for my taste, but he’s done a lot of work and I haven’t looked at it all. Pulse Room is an interactive installation featuring one to three hundred clear incandescent light [...]
A shot from work in progress. Click for larger view. Plus, excerpts from a couple of interviews we’ve been reading: Time-Space-Existence: A Conversation with Wolfgang Laib (PDF) WL: I know that some people think I am an apolitical nature romantic who sits in the meadows and takes no interest at all in social relationships. But [...]
In Vancouver, an artist collective called Instant Coffee is doing a show called Light Bar: Instant Coffee presents Light Bar, a full-spectrum light bar installation and venue for light therapy, light lectures, light shows, light reading and light rock. Instant Coffee’s Light Bar is an ongoing art project that investigates the potential and power of [...]
From the Panorama, “Junot Diaz in conversation with Dave Eggers”: JD: I think more than anything, my basic lesson as an artist has been humility. So when I get a bunch of stuff, like “Do you want to come to this thing, do you want to come to that thing?” I say to myself “Do [...]
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Saw this Barry Mcgee/Twist photo installation in the SFMOMA 75th Anniversary show today: (that’s not me, don’t get your Asian girls confused…) Jen Wong SFMOMA has a set of photos of the installation of the work, and one of my favorite parts – the drawings of the strange heads: There’s also an interview with the [...]
Monday, December 21, 2009
One of the Mission Art in Storefronts projects that was implemented was a fortune telling service called Mrs. Teriosa, where you write your question on a card and drop it into a slot. Mrs. Teriosa, who are really Kelly Ording and Jetro Martinez, then posts the original and a reply card in the window. Mission [...]
Art veterans among you are probably over-familiar with this, but I have to work it out for myself. Abstract works are more purely visual – having a preference means having a preference for the colors and negative space, lines and curves in one particular piece, not a preference of subject matter. If you like to [...]
I can’t believe I just spent a night writing this instead of scanning while watching Big Love (awesome show), but I’ll take some solace in the fact that I got Joerg to put the word “chipmunk” in a subject title. First off, let’s clarify a bit. Don’t read too much into the chipmunks! I was [...]
Simmons and Belonax Remember that Art in Storefronts initiative? The chosen artists have been announced, and the most interesting to me is Simmons and Belonax’s “Everything is Okay” neon sign installation proposed for Central Market St, not the least because there is a mock-up photo. There is also Market St poster plan for next year [...]
Remnants of a GNC, 24th St. An “attractive display to draw potential renters” sets off an alarm or two, but Art in Storefronts sounds like a good little project with a local focus if you can make a new piece in time. They seem to be more receptive to multimedia installations but if you print [...]
Elijah Gowin I came across the phrase “use vs exchange value” while reading New York For Sale that triggered the memory of a brief moment in the De Young museum. My friend and I were looking at a slit drum from an indigenous culture and suddenly I felt incredibly sad that the instrument will likely [...]
