And Erika Ranee

My list of artists who are "everything I want to be" keeps growing. I found Erika Ranee also via The Painter's Table:






This interview video is well worth watching:

http://www.gorkysgranddaughter.com/2013/08/erika-ranee-august-2013.html

A Few More

A few images that didn't make it onto Wednesday's slideshow may be of interest. Enjoy!

Matthew Mahler, O M G #2 [oh my god], 2013, acrylic and dye on canvas, 40 x 44 inches

(via http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com)

DeShawn Dumas, The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth (as they are buried beneath it), 2013, pages from the book of Revelation, Genesis and Matthew 5:5, vinyl, tar, tulle flour, aluminum over canvas, 87 x 87 inches 

(via http://painters-table.com/blog)

 

DeShawn Dumas, Unity of the Spectacle (whatever is good will surely appear, therefore, all that appears is good), 2013, galvanized steel, vinyl, Starbucks coffee grinds, memos discussing the Trans-pacific partnership downloaded from PublicCitizen.org over canvas, 89 x 89 inches 

(via http://painters-table.com/blog)

Lauren Clay, Moan about the present, venerate the past, 2010, acrylic, paper, paper mache, wood, 

23 x 19 x 5 inches (via http://www.laurenclay.com)

Lauren Clay, Synchronicity spoken here (purple monochrome with junk in the trunk/ L.H.O.O.Q. with maxi stripes), 2009, acrylic, paper, paper mache, plastic, foam, 56 x 24 x 5 inches

(via http://www.laurenclay.com)

 

I am currently looking at the work of Petah Coyne.  She works primarily with wax and mixed media.  For more images go to : http://www.petahcoyne.org/

Speaking of "Jealous": I'm jealous of Peri Schwartz

http://www.perischwartz.com/studio_2010-.php#9
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-seed/peri-schwartz_b_3695278.html

age of the music video

Gavin Townsend asked us in Abstract Expressionism what influences artists of this generation... one form of imagery I often look toward are MUSIC VIDEOS. Check this one out! You can mute the song if you don't like it... but the video is worth watching all the way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxxstCcJlsc

Jakub Julian Ziolkowski

Over the summer I made a resolution to read every single word of Vitamin P 2. Jakub Julian Ziolkowski is a young artist who lives and works in Poland. I did not get hooked by all his work, but the image below was worth posting.

Regarding Mary Kelly

I also learned of Mary Kelly from The Painter's Table and am drawn to her powerful use of text and materials, and her feminist and humanist narratives.


http://www.marykellyartist.com/post_partum_document.html

 homage for Allan White:

“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.”  -Gastan Bachelard (The Poetics of Space)

It seems that many of us have moved recently... that being stated I encourage you to re-read some of this essay.  It will make you miss the houses you have left behind and cherish the one you are currently residing in.

LOVING this German artist I discovered this summer named Angelika Arendt. Her work definitely carries on our conversation last semester about the term "doodling" and the implicit hierarchies of mark making.  Her work is playful but also dramatic at times, extremely detailed and totally fascinating. I love both her sculptures and her drawings. (the sculptures are made out of polymer clay! craft vs. fine art...laura? childhood mediums...mags?) 

more works on her website -->http://www.angelikaarendt.de/home.html

enjoy :) 

I wish I spent more time with this painting. After our introductory lecture in Abstract Expressionism yesterday I realized that I didn't take advantage of a great opportunity when I was in Dallas last summer. One day I will find my way back.

ephiphany.... drum roll please...

After working with just markers and white paper last semester, I had an epiphany (duh duh duhhhh) about how that would carry into my work this year in a different way. I had been thinking about value and success and validity; where those ideas stem from and come from. I started thinking about personal victories that happen throughout our lives, from having a little brother, to turning five years old, to getting into college, ect. I was thinking about my ribbon that I got in kindergarten when i won "best artist k-3" and how it made me feel to get that.

Since I think and prefer to work sculpturally, I want to use my drawings from last semester to inform "trophies" of personal victories. What if at the end of your life, there was a room that had trophies in lines and rows (kind of like how they set up terra cotta soldiers in museums) of all your personal victories? How freakin cool would that be. I was thinking about using plaster to make molds and casts of these trophies so they would be almost lifesize and using mixed media, ect. to add onto them.

The first one I made this summer was for Nick because he plays Punk Rock Baseball every Monday night. They had another Punk Rock team from Philly come down to play them and they asked me to make them a trophy for it.

Thoughts...?

pushing the boundaries of "women's craft materials"

Someone that continues pressing to the forefront of my mind is the contemporary artist, Anne Smith.  Taking scraps of linen, lace, thread, yarn, hair, glass, toothpicks, etc., Smith create her own "crafty cities."  Continually pushing the boundaries by subtly blurring the line of craft art vs. fine art, I must applaud her.

On my trip to Chicago I visited the Chicago Art Institute. I discovered this AMAZING artist, Ivan Albright. Born in Illinois, he studied at the Chicago Art Institute. The photographs of his work do the paintings absolutely no justice. The detail and texture in each one is beyond my realm of comprehension. This particular piece, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", I stood in front of for about 15 minutes, I could have stood there all day if my boyfriend would have allowed me. If you are not familiar with him, Google his images, you won't be sorry.

Discovering Stanley Whitney!

I discovered Stanley Whitney via The Painter's Table this summer just after reading Chromaphobia......

Visit The Painter's Table:
http://painters-table.com/link/james-kalm-rough-cut/stanley-whitney-left-right
and
You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWsgIfQpP7c&feature=youtu.be

5AM lacan cult sesh, for anyone interested: http://www.lacan.com 

Saw an amazing video installation at the Tate Britain in London by Laure Prouvost. I can't find the one I saw, but all her videos and installations are incredibly interesting. The show in London left me shaking. Check it: 

http://www.laureprouvost.com/theartistexerpt.mov

http://www.laureprouvost.com/gd%20father.mp3

and some still images of installation work:

and in general: http://www.laureprouvost.com 

"I want to push myself to the limit. I want to get to that point where I'm afraid to go to the studio the next day for fear of what I may have done. I want to scare and excite myself at the same time. I want to fall off the trapeze wire but bounce back higher from the safety net." 

-Tracey Emin, My Life In A Column

Currently obsessing over Craig Drennen (Atlanta based artist -- if you haven't seen the drawing show in the basement of the High Museum, get there immediately! Total drool-fest. Here is a teaser. You can see more at www.craigdrennen.com