Art Art Art: Part 2
I went to see the Data Mining show at Wallspace for the Gerhard Richter piece (disappointing), but ended up falling in love with Dora Garcia. They had the print version of All The Stories, a collection of story tropes, movie plots, and little anecdotes that comprise every story ever told. The stories all seem familiar, you've heard them before, you've seen that movie, but there's always something off, they can't be placed. The project has evolved into a weblog, but it lacks the elegance of the huge book with only a few sentences on each page that was featured in the gallery.
430- An irresistibly attractive man with a turbulent past and an uncertain future arrives in a small town and falls in love with the local beauty. Unfortunately she is engaged to the local tycoon.
866- A rich man pretends to be poor, just to be sure that the girl he loves will marry him for who he is and not because of his money.
1671- In a wonderland inhabited by fiery salamanders and winged spirits, good fights evil in search of a life-giving talisman whose finder will rule the world.
Garcia also has several other online projects, which like All the Stories have an element of performance to them. She seems to wear her influences on her sleeves, with obviously referential or derivative content based on work by Dan Graham, Jorge Luis Borges, etc.
The New Collage show at Pavel Zoubek was very hit and miss, but had a number of gems. There was a catalog to the show, but the reproductions were pretty awful and it was expensive.
Javier Pinon does collages, mostly involving chairs and cowboys in surreal and chaotic arrangements or the very moment before chaos occurs. I can't find much online, but here is the piece I saw and another piece that's quite different from the rest of his work.
Marshall Weber has apparently had run ins with Homeland Security: Department of Publication Control, which retracted the publication of one of his books. The work that attracted me to him, however, didn't have overtly political meaning (that I picked up on), but was a seamless photocollage that destroys space yet, at first glance, looks simply like a photo. I also can't find much by him, though he has a rather interesting story and has apparently put out a lot of books. Maybe I can ILL him in the fall? This is the piece from the show (sorry it's so small) and the only other piece I could find.
Micha Laury is another artist I unfortunately can't find much about, although he appears to be a fairly big name. His jellyfish are really dazzling--they come in vibrant colors, they're huge, they hang above your head, but it seduces you just to sting you.
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Today was my final class of the summer and although I don't think I really gained many technical skills (although I was pushed to use the ones I know a bit more), the critique was really useful. Jeff was very encouraging and positive; he thought I had a really good shot at grad school and suggested I really look in to Columbia. We talked about how to organize a portfolio, which was really helpful because that's not at all how I thought it would work. Now I just want to go shoot, shoot, shoot!
430- An irresistibly attractive man with a turbulent past and an uncertain future arrives in a small town and falls in love with the local beauty. Unfortunately she is engaged to the local tycoon.
866- A rich man pretends to be poor, just to be sure that the girl he loves will marry him for who he is and not because of his money.
1671- In a wonderland inhabited by fiery salamanders and winged spirits, good fights evil in search of a life-giving talisman whose finder will rule the world.
Garcia also has several other online projects, which like All the Stories have an element of performance to them. She seems to wear her influences on her sleeves, with obviously referential or derivative content based on work by Dan Graham, Jorge Luis Borges, etc.
The New Collage show at Pavel Zoubek was very hit and miss, but had a number of gems. There was a catalog to the show, but the reproductions were pretty awful and it was expensive.
Javier Pinon does collages, mostly involving chairs and cowboys in surreal and chaotic arrangements or the very moment before chaos occurs. I can't find much online, but here is the piece I saw and another piece that's quite different from the rest of his work.
Marshall Weber has apparently had run ins with Homeland Security: Department of Publication Control, which retracted the publication of one of his books. The work that attracted me to him, however, didn't have overtly political meaning (that I picked up on), but was a seamless photocollage that destroys space yet, at first glance, looks simply like a photo. I also can't find much by him, though he has a rather interesting story and has apparently put out a lot of books. Maybe I can ILL him in the fall? This is the piece from the show (sorry it's so small) and the only other piece I could find.
Micha Laury is another artist I unfortunately can't find much about, although he appears to be a fairly big name. His jellyfish are really dazzling--they come in vibrant colors, they're huge, they hang above your head, but it seduces you just to sting you.
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Today was my final class of the summer and although I don't think I really gained many technical skills (although I was pushed to use the ones I know a bit more), the critique was really useful. Jeff was very encouraging and positive; he thought I had a really good shot at grad school and suggested I really look in to Columbia. We talked about how to organize a portfolio, which was really helpful because that's not at all how I thought it would work. Now I just want to go shoot, shoot, shoot!