ten visual artists i have been thinking about

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rob pruitt
tim gardner
wallace ford
robert longo
johnathon meese
sol lewitt
fred sandblack
ruth root
jack peirson
lewis baltz

i am trying this new way, because of the death of my roni horn thread

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

the death of my roni horn

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

rob pruitt - who?
tim gardner - uhhhhhhhh, excuse me?
wallace ford - errrrrrrrrrrrm *looks a watch*
robert longo - run that name by me again...
johnathon meese - oh right, oh right, errrrrrrrrrrrr, no, sorry
sol lewitt - look, maybe this wasn't such a great idea after all
fred sandblack - oh, right, how many more to come?
ruth root - ah ah, I think......... no no, Jesus
jack peirson - you're making these up aren't you?
lewis baltz - look, can we start again?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

are these all people you've met, anthony?

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:04 (5 years ago) Permalink

I don't know much about art but........... well, I don't know much about art

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

shut up, dadaismus

― stockholm cindy (from norway) (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

As well as being a visual artist Robert Longo was also a member of guitar groups and large ensembles that Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham etc put together. THAT MUCH I KNOW! Aside from that, I've only seen a couple of pieces by Sol Lewitt...

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

i was going to write exactly that about robert longo!

― stockholm cindy (from norway) (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

I thought I knew that name

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

ruth root is a nice name.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:11 (5 years ago) Permalink

Longo did the sculpture on the cover of this...

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

Even better if you're from Dublin (xpost)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

its walton not wallace:

fred sandback, sorry

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

― stockholm cindy (from norway) (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

i've never heard of any of these artists either. :-(

anthony once rather accurately described the only visual artists i like as "gloopy angst-ridden expressionists."

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:47 (5 years ago) Permalink

which were those?

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 09:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

Rob Pruitt is an interesting artist. He burst to fame—and then notoreity—in the early 90s as part of the duo Pruitt and Early. They made a show called The Black Show which played around with stereotypes of black people, and it turned out to be so provocative and controversial, even for the art world, that Pruitt was, er, blacklisted for several years. He made a successful comeback about five years ago, though, showing his quirky, kitchy work at galleries like Greene Naftali and Gavin Brown's Enterprise. The show that made the art world forgive him was just a huge pile of cocaine in the middle of a gallery. I think it was all snorted during the opening! He was forgiven for "the Black Show" by making "the White Show", ha ha! Last thing I saw by him was a sort of bake sale show at Gavin Brown's, a market in which artist friends sold their wares. Oh, and some nice glittery panda paintings with National Geographic documentaries about pandas being projected onto them at Greene Naftali.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

I love ArtFacts, their site is so objective and yet so bitchy. Look at this graph of Jack Pierson's career!

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 10:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

the artists on the list, from top to bottom corrospond ot the images

― anthony, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

I have not heard of any of these artists as I don't keep up with the art world but I will offer my sincere comments based on the pictures you have posted:

Rob Pruitt - The link to this picture doesn't work.
Tim Gardner - Don't care for it. Looks Photoshopped. Is that the point?
Walton Ford - I like this one a lot, it's my favorite of the bunch. Frightening and attractive, there's a lot to look at here.
Robert Longo - I'm not sure about this one because I'm not sure what the medium is. Is it photography? Painting?
Johnathon Meese - Doesn't seem very modern, but it makes me think of the Fall's album art, so I'll give it points for that. Actually, I think I like this one.
Lewitt - Not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at in the photo here, the painting? It's attractive but not very interesting to me.
Sandback - I'm not big on minimalist sculpture, sorry. It would probably be more interesting in person rather than in a tiny photo.
Root - Again, it's attractive but not very interesting. I like it more than the Lewitt though, since there's an "object" surrounded by space rather than just connected color-shapes. I like its crispness.
Pierson - Eh, "shocking." Is the point the contrast between subject and medium? Seems kind of stale. Technically impressive though.
Baltz - I like this one too. Can't tell if it's a photo or painting, but it's calming.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

Again, I don't come from a visual art background so those are just my gut reactions. I've been toying with the idea of starting an art blog from the POV of an educated layperson, doing kind of what I did above but in more detail, reviewing local art shows. What do you think?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

my ten:

1. karel funk

2. tim gardner

3. chad robertson

4. robert olsen

5. connie jenkins

6. bruce everett

7. glenn brown

8. paul pfeiffer

9. robert cottingham

10. mark tansey

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

Longo and Lewitt were the only ones in Anthony's original ten that I'd heard of.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 17:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

Wow, I like a lot of Dean's. I do like Photo-Realism...

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

dean, you should start more art threads

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yessir.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

They're all paintings except for #8.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

i possess (by pure chance) the issue of national geographic that the turquoise encrusted, ticket-holding fingers from the crooked rain crooked rain collage is cut from. just flipped through and there it was. if memory serves the article had something to do with horseracing, which is appropriate for pavement i guess.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:15 (5 years ago) Permalink

That Mark Tansey one is really arresting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

They're all paintings except for #8.
!!

I endorse this thread, more artists and picz plz.

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:22 (5 years ago) Permalink

some Longo from his "men in the city" series of drawings:

i was intrigued by him and did some reading a while back. don't remember much. he kicked it with cindy sherman back in the day. i remember seeing these and thinking pulp ripped him off for the different class artwork. but i guess longo's men look a bit more stressed.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:24 (5 years ago) Permalink

Oh I've seen those Longo men before, I like those.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

n/a please don't start that blog.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

hahah

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

Maximo Park uses those right?

― sleep (sleep), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

Okey dokey.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

The only reason I object to that blog is because I don't like making distinctions between "laypeople" and "experts."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:49 (5 years ago) Permalink

I just don't want more blogs where people say "hey, I like that" or "oh, I don't like that." Actually, go ahead and start the blog. I won't read it anyways!

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:50 (5 years ago) Permalink

(xpost) I mean, you can start a blog where you go to art shows and report on them, but I don't like the idea of the tone being dominated by "LOOK, I DON'T KNOW NUTHIN' 'BOUT ART, I JUST KNOW WHAT I LIKE."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

since i'm not very familiar with the original list, i'll add one of my recent faves. thomas demand!
demand takes photos of fairly mundane things. a kitchen. an empty office space. etc. then in his studio creates a three dimensional replica of the subject of the photo out of paper and cardboard. then he takes a second picture of the scene mimicking the original photo. then he destroys the paper model. intense!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

(Art already has the unfortunate reputation of being elitist or obscure or impenetrable.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

11. Delia Brown

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

(sorry, that last post of mine was an x-post, if it wasn't clear)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 18:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

(Art already has the unfortunate reputation of being elitist or obscure or impenetrable.)

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), August 2nd, 2005.

like me!!!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

Alexander Ross

Neter

Kurt Kauper

Michael Wolf

Chris Jordan

Ding Yi

Gary Panter

Chris Forgues

Peter Doig

Bernd and Hilla becher

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

7 i can think of right now:

stephen shore

doug aitken

tomory dodge

tim hawkinson

francis alys

william pope.l

sam durant

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

haha, as soon as i saw aitken's name, i knew this was you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

Longo also directed the video for "Bizarre Love Triangle" and I think did the cover for the Replacements Tim, which was pretty awful.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:21 (5 years ago) Permalink

andrew m, have you checked out oliver boberg? i recommended him to a friend who had mentioned demand. he also builds things out of cardboard/paper, but they are of a decrepit, bleak eastern european, industrial sort.
for instance:

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

He had stuff up in SF not too long ago.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:25 (5 years ago) Permalink

haha, as soon as i saw aitken's name, i knew this was you.
yeah, well, i'm still working on him...trying to prepare my paper for conferences, perhaps.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:25 (5 years ago) Permalink

woah. i'll check out boberg.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 19:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

Longo also directed Johnny Mnemonic (anyone mention that already?).

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

MORE PICS PLEASE

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 20:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

which were those?

egon schiele, edvard munch, francis bacon, van gogh. oh and mark rothko but he's the exception that proves the rule. and a bunch of cartoonists.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

12. aaron romine

13. wendell gladstone

14. robert russell

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

15. jacques bodin

16. kate waters

17. yvette froment

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 02:44 (5 years ago) Permalink

i wuv this one:

― stockholm cindy (from norway) (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 04:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

DEAN YOU HAVE GRAET TASTE

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 05:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

That first Russell painting reminds me of:

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 05:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

(Or perhaps more accurately, the later variations on that painting, such as

)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 05:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

Brian Dettmer

Alec Soth

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

DEAN YOU HAVE GRAET TASTE

THAKNS!

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

That first Russell painting reminds me of:

IIRC, for that series of B&W portraits, he used spray paint and stencils. In fact, until I was looking for pictures of the skaters (which I had seen years ago) and the pigs (which I saw recently), I didn't know that they were by the same person.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 16:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

A non-broken but small Kurt Kauper

Doug Wada

Kevin Wolff

Kristin Baker

Neal Rock

Trever Wentworth

― Penguin USA Paper, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

18. Sarah Sze

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 17:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

19. Carles Congost

20. Philip Lorca DiCorcia

21. Gregory Crewdson

22. Charlie White

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

this thread rules. dean you are the bombiest.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:52 (5 years ago) Permalink

i am certain some of you have seen this piece by longo.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

glenn branca!

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

also longo.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/exhibition/event_details.php?id=3298

i wish i had known about this show!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:00 (5 years ago) Permalink

23. Guy Diehl

24. Cindy Craig

25. Patti Oleon

26. Davis Cone

27. Patty Wickman

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

Eberhard Havekost

Susan Logoreci

Andrew Kuo

Alex Brown

Chris Larson

Maurizio Cattelan

― Penguin USA Paper, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

David Duncan

Christian Schumann

Odd Nerdrum

Greg Rose

― Penguin USA Paper, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

how about "i don't know much about art, but i know what i like, but 10 secs after i leave the gallery i've forgotten all the fucking names"

anyway, two i do:

Julie Mehretu:
http://www.walkerart.org/archive/2/BD73992C53BA05FC6169.jpg

Odd Nerdrum (xpost!):
ihttp://home.no.net/jaeand/images/bilder%20og%20gif/mikke%20mus/selfportrait%20odd%20nerdrum.jpg

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:48 (5 years ago) Permalink

sigh well yr mousebuttons all work i guess

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 21:50 (5 years ago) Permalink

The Carles Congost looks like a still from a Bill Viola video. Really great stuff on this thread, has got me excited about the museum visits I've planned for Friday in San Francisco.

Here's a few favorites of mine:

Robert Schwartz

David Rathman (the captions are an integral part of these pieces; this one reads, "funny how time slips away")

Xie Nanxing

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 4 August 2005 14:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

Verne Dawson

Dan Hays

Wilhelm Sasnal

Dirk Skreber

Cecily Brown

Jenny Saville

Luc Tuymans

Yuko Murata

Chris Dorland

Cristina Lei Rodriguez

Kaz Oshiro

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

a non-broken Cecily Brown

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:08 (5 years ago) Permalink

Penguin, are you from SoCal by any chance?...I've seen Oshiro's work a lot, and Rodriguez's as well down here.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

Marilyn Minter

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

Neo Rauch

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

I just want to mention that in no way, shape or form is Laura Owens allowed on this thread.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:37 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I am, Robots. I saw the Oshiro piece at "Thing" at the Hammer, but he had a few shows elsewhere in LA that I'm sad I missed.

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

todd hido

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 4 August 2005 16:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

Also, Dean OTM.

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 4 August 2005 17:07 (5 years ago) Permalink

Ghada Amer

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 4 August 2005 18:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

Thanks for the links and names and images, y'all.

I don't feel like googling up images, but...

Wim Delvoye
Julie Mehretu
Sarah Sze (as above)
Jim Hodges
Inka Essenhigh (the stuff painted in enamel on aluminum plates)
Ivan Albright

and as always my favorite cartoonists, like Jim Woodring, Robert Crumb, yak yak yak.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

Oh yeah, and Dan Flavin, too.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 4 August 2005 19:11 (5 years ago) Permalink

Here's Julie Mehretu, who's been mentioned a couple of times already:

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 4 August 2005 20:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

Franz Gertsch

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Thursday, 4 August 2005 21:44 (5 years ago) Permalink

Carla Klein

Andreas Gursky

Gottfried Helnwein

Bodys Isek Kingelez

Lisa Yuskavage

A little self indulgent, but I'd also like to repost Peter Doig with a better picture

Jeff Koons

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 4 August 2005 22:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

Daniela Rossell

Erwin Wurm

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 4 August 2005 23:16 (5 years ago) Permalink

Asuka Ohsawa

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 5 August 2005 01:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

OMG those rule.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 5 August 2005 01:35 (5 years ago) Permalink

Those Asuka Ohsawa paintings are amazing.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 5 August 2005 01:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

I've been liking Wei Dong lately:

ihttp://www.plumblossoms.com/WeiDong/images/CX130aaLG.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 02:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

They really need to be seen up close though -- lots of incredible detail.

― Hurting (Hurting), Friday, 5 August 2005 02:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

After a recent visit to the Folk Art museum in NYC, William Large Hawkins:

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:08 (5 years ago) Permalink

Those Asuka Ohsawa paintings are amazing.

She had a show at Gallery 825 in Bergamot Station in Santa Monica; it ended on June 4. I think she's local, so keep your eyes open.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 6 August 2005 20:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

this thread rules!! thanks everyone!!

― scout (scout), Saturday, 6 August 2005 22:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

some more stuff
tamara henderson

Brent Wadden

Mario Campos

― unagi knee, Sunday, 7 August 2005 10:55 (5 years ago) Permalink

Misaki Kawai

Tom Friedman

Mike Slack

Jason Fulford

― Penguin USA Paper, Monday, 8 August 2005 16:46 (5 years ago) Permalink

Fresh out of my very own Rutgers, and on view at P.S. 1 in Greater New York, Matthew Day Jackson:

ihttp://www.moma.org/press/greater_ny/Jackson.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 August 2005 19:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

Jesumpete, that image by Matthew Day Jackson is ridiculously huge - nearly 3000x2000 pixels.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Monday, 8 August 2005 21:52 (5 years ago) Permalink

http://cipango.typepad.com/

^^^
ed linked to it on dissensus a while ago, great stuff generally

― geoff (gcannon), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 03:51 (5 years ago) Permalink

Neil Farber

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:21 (5 years ago) Permalink

Where did you find out about Mario Campos, Unagiknee?

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:47 (5 years ago) Permalink

Vija Celmins

Yang Qian

Song Kun

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 22:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

Yayoi Kusama

Jake and Dinos Chapman (more the small cute models and less the big fiberglass mutant kids)

Genevieve Castree

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 22:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

Jake and Dinos Chapman (more the small cute models and less the big fiberglass mutant kids)

Is that a photograph or is the diorama itself the piece?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 22:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

I believe that image is from 'Hell', which was series of dioramas.

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 23:59 (5 years ago) Permalink

Jacob Magraw

― The Ghost of Dean Gulberry (dr g), Friday, 19 August 2005 18:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

http://www.d3.dion.ne.jp/~erien/

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 20 August 2005 01:46 (5 years ago) Permalink

Brian Jungen

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:13 (5 years ago) Permalink

Jessica Joslin

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Monday, 22 August 2005 21:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Julia Warr

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

Tracy Nakayama

Elizabeth Peyton

Otto Duecker

Andrew Grassie

Magnus Von Plessen

Randall Sellers

Jeff Shore and John Fisher

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

Here's the Julia Warr

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

I will probably get it to work on the third try.

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

Gretchen Ryan

Her work is generally too Juxtapoz-y for me but this piece is pretty cool.

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 22 September 2005 22:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

i found out yesterday that i'm having dinner with charlie white next month!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 22 September 2005 22:23 (4 years ago) Permalink

also, todd hido seconded

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 22 September 2005 22:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

Hey Robot and Penguin, Steven Shore is on exhibit currently at the Hammer in LA. I just went a few weeks ago. Pretty interesting work.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Thursday, 22 September 2005 23:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

i like alot of this stuff - is there a good primer (book or net) for painting like this?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 23 September 2005 00:15 (4 years ago) Permalink

"stuff like this"

ok the things that i especially like

Robert Olsen
Connie Jenkins
tomory dodge
aaron romine
kate waters
brian dettmer
trevor wentworth
greg rose
david rathman
ghada amer

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 23 September 2005 00:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

vitamin p
art now

― kurt broder (dr g), Friday, 23 September 2005 01:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

Wiggy, I just saw the Steven Shore show. I liked it: my favorite part was probably the last room, with the big green landscapes, which everyone else I've talked to has sort of hated or thought was boring.

That reminds me of two people from the Thing show at the Hammer that I wanted to add:

Matt Johnson

Jedediah Caesar

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

Rebecca Campbell

Cindy Wright

Frank Bauer

Yang Shaobin

Matt Saunders

Shen Liang

Steinar Jacobsen

Juan Francisco Casas

Izvor Pende

Korehiko Hino

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:34 (4 years ago) Permalink

best thread ever

it makes me want to quit my job

― kurt broder (dr g), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

post one of yours, doc.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

My most recent:

― kurt broder (dr g), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 01:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

such a good thread! generally how does one get exposed to these things (other than in this thread obv)? Magazines? Websites? I like to go to the museum but it doesn't change fast enough for me

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 01:58 (4 years ago) Permalink

Yayoi Kusama
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― Wiggy (Wiggy), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 02:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

omg this thread is great.

doctor, please tell me this one

24. Cindy Craig

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is a photo

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 02:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

Not only is it a painting, it's a watercolor. Wish I could see it up close, I've never seen a photo-realistic watercolor before.

So's this one

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 02:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

yeah, she's nuts ... haven't seen these in person, but i'm willing to bet that they don't look half as great.

― kurt broder (dr g), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 02:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

Dr, the chair looks great!

Malcolm Morley

Silvia Gertsch

Stephan Kaluza

Christoph Schmidberger

Damien Loeb

Paul Galloway

Chen Wenbo

Simon Keenleyside

Sylvain Tremblay

Echo Eggebrecht

Neal Tait

Doug Wada, reposted (the image above broke)

Dirk Skreber, reposted (ditto)

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 16:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

I'm going to repost Kurt Kauper, he probably deserves a better picture

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 16:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

re: getting exposed to this stuff, in my case I see much more art in magazines and on the internet (gallery webpages, art blogs, show reviews, etc.) than in reality, unfortunately.

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 27 September 2005 17:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

dean, that's gorgeous.

i bet this is what everyone asks you but how long did it take to paint and do you only work on one thing at a time?

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 19:28 (4 years ago) Permalink

Andrew Roy

Keiko Miyata

Marc Quinn

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

Chen Yufei

Neil Gall

Andrew Holme

Josef Felix Muller

Adam Cvijanovic

Stephen Bush

James Rieck

Paul Winstanley

Cui Guotai

Fiona rae

Carl Fudge

Sean Dawson

Jason Brooks

Roland Hicks

Chantal Joffe

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

the stephen bush and roland hicks are lovely.

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

Avedon's American West exhibit just reopened in Ft. Worth, I hope I can make it this weekend.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

I am pleased Fiona Rae got a mention here - she's been among my three or so favourite living artists for a long time.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

I'd really like to see her stuff in person.

― Penguin USA Paper, Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:22 (4 years ago) Permalink

She was the first artist for whom I rang a bell to be let into a tiny gallery, as it happens. The gallery had a total of two paintings on show - not just two by her, that was all they had. She came to my attention when she was nominated for the Turner Prize many years back.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:52 (4 years ago) Permalink

i bet this is what everyone asks you but how long did it take to paint and do you only work on one thing at a time?

thanks. i would say that that painting took around 30 hours or so. i tend to work on many things at once and i usually start new batches of paintings every few months regardless of how far i am along on older ones. it's better to have as many choices as possible so you can manage your work flow and make it fit with your (busy) schedule. i have no intention of showing work for the next few months or so due to a work commitment, so i can really work at my own pace assuming that i have the time.

― kurt broder (dr g), Friday, 30 September 2005 19:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

Patrick Caulfield R.I.P

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1582245,00.html

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:04 (4 years ago) Permalink

thanks for the answer dean. surprisingly fast actually.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 30 September 2005 21:13 (4 years ago) Permalink

matthew ritchie

assume vivid astro focus

ihttp://www.mtechweb.org/albums/Altoids/AssumeVividAstroFocus.sized.jpg
peter bialobrzeski

margot quan knight

cover to the new animal collective album, don't know who did it

linn olofsdotter costa

inga liksaite

won ju lim
http://www.arco.ifema.es/arco05/feria_virtual/galerias/img/912.jpg
simen johan

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:04 (4 years ago) Permalink

that should be:
won ju lim

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:06 (4 years ago) Permalink

dean

can i ask a question, w/o seeming like an asshole?
why do you engage with photorealism, and narrative painting, both formally and poltically?

― anthony, Saturday, 1 October 2005 07:04 (4 years ago) Permalink

Diana Cooper

Amie Dicke

Juliana Paciulli

Enoc Perez

Jim Drain

Yuken Teruya

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

Gerald Davis

Benjamin Edwards

Chinatsu Ban

Kaye Donachie

Elisa Johns

Jodie Mohr

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

this is the best thread on ilx

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 22:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

malcolm morley

― kurt broder (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

bill heard

― kurt broder (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

tom blackwell

― kurt broder (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:04 (4 years ago) Permalink

karyn lyons

― kurt broder (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:06 (4 years ago) Permalink

rebecca campbell

― kurt broder (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:09 (4 years ago) Permalink

terry rodgers

― kurt broder (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

still the best thread on ilx

― milton parker (Jon L), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

what do you do, dean, that you wind up finding all these different artists?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

i am a painter, but that's a very solitary act and doesn't help me see much daylight. i find out about these folks by reading magazines / websites, going to galleries, hanging out with mr. penguin usa paper, plotting, scheming, etc, etc, etc.

― Magin Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

I've seen an ad that looked exactly like that Terry Rodgers painting (minus bare breasts), only it was a photograph for something.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

diesel

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:52 (4 years ago) Permalink

I wish that Delia Brown were as prolific as Rodgers.

― Magin Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

colin cook

― Magin Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

eric white

i almost forgot about him

― Magin Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

so then you're in LA too, dean? i think so anyway. anything coming up? doesn't assume vivid astro focus have something that opens... uhh... today? at moca? o i guess i could look... gallerywise though i never know where to go in LA other than, you know, just kinda scampering around chinatown.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:13 (4 years ago) Permalink

yeah, i'm a westsider. shameful, i know. don't know too much about the LA shows at the moment. bergamot is poor, but neil farber opens at heller on saturday. rebecca campbell closed in venice on saturday and was great. chinatown was boring except for some oval shaped photos at black dragon (?) linked upthread - i can't remember the artist's name - and a couple of small works in the backroom of acuna hansen. the shore/fisher piece at QED in Culver City is AMAZING and must be seen. don't know much about the other CC galleries. Mr. Penguin can probably give you more info.

― Magin Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:19 (4 years ago) Permalink

assume vivid astro focus has an installation at the big Ecstasy show at the Geffen. It requires 3-d glasses and is pretty funny.

The show in general is good:
http://www.moca.org/museum/exhibitiondetail.php?id=360

― Penguin USA Paper, Monday, 10 October 2005 20:39 (4 years ago) Permalink

Kenji Yanobe

Hiraki Sawa

Mark Tichtner

Robert Lazzarini

Folkert De Jong

Wolfgang Laib

Marnie Weber

― Penguin USA Paper, Monday, 10 October 2005 20:40 (4 years ago) Permalink

This is why I want to move to LA.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

well, sort of.

― Lion-O (nordicskilla), Monday, 10 October 2005 20:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

Wolfgang Laib

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― Magin Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:16 (4 years ago) Permalink

LAURA.

OWENS.

"I am not interested in making people uncomfortable, but at the same time I don't have an interest in paintings that are truly passive. The best paintings are ones that require an active, discerning viewer."

--Laura Owens

― Magin Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

anthony - the book! How goes the book? Do you need us to whip you with nettles to stimulate your skull custard, or chain you to your keyboard with your knees roped together? ILE's services in that direction are very reasonably priced, I hear.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:36 (4 years ago) Permalink

Richard Patterson

Stephen Jung

Delphine Courtillot

Julie Farstad

Mark Stockton

Lordan Bunch

Paul Noble (who is the Ecstasy show)

Erika Somogyi

Antje Majewski

Mark Takamichi Miller

Xiaoze Xie

― Penguin USA Paper, Monday, 10 October 2005 21:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

Joelle Dietrick

(the photo doesn't do them justice)

― Magin Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

More Robert Olsen

― Magin Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:10 (4 years ago) Permalink

I've met Julie Farstad. Robotsinlove used to intern at a gallery that represented her in Chicago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

― felicity alexander, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 00:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

roxie munro

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:15 (4 years ago) Permalink

i've never seen this richter before:

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:19 (4 years ago) Permalink

my second favorite bechtle:

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

omg this kate waters

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

john salt

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

raphaella spence

hilo chen

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

eric white = WOW

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

randy ford

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

more randy ford!

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:50 (4 years ago) Permalink

I just don't get a lot out of most photorealism.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:55 (4 years ago) Permalink

Well, outside of awe at technique, anyway.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 01:55 (4 years ago) Permalink

you're welcome to post images that you actually do like

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

dimitri kozyrev

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:06 (4 years ago) Permalink

I have, just not recently. And of course, there's plenty of non-photorealism posted anyway.

But, here's a couple...

Jim Hodges

Alfred Jensen

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:15 (4 years ago) Permalink

But if I may ask - what attracts you to photorealism?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:15 (4 years ago) Permalink

jesus h that second randy ford

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

i dont like any of these. what happened to beauty? what happened to melody? can't anyone paint in tune anymore?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:22 (4 years ago) Permalink

Truthfully, I spend most of my time thinking about visual artists who draw comic books.

Goseki Kojima

R. Crumb

Xaime Hernandez

Mary Fleener

Jim Woodring

Lynda Barry

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:23 (4 years ago) Permalink

Since the Glenn Brown link above is broken, I'll repost my favorites:

This diptych (which is also on display right now at Ecstasy)

And this big canvas:

And here are some Brian Jungen:

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And on the subject of photorealism, I don't think we have a Ralph Goings yet.
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― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

I like photorealism when it has a strong surrealist element (ala David Lynch movies or Gregory Crewdson photographs) - something just a little off in the perspective or colors that alters your perception.

One of my favorites (crap photo, in person the blacks are much richer) -
Daniel Blagg

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

WHERE ARE MR PENGUIN ORIGINALS

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:30 (4 years ago) Permalink

Ugh, I tried to scan a couple of mine and they look *disgusting*. I'll try again tomorrow...

Woodring is probably my first or second favorite living cartoonist. Here's another by him.

Some more contemporary cartoonists:

Chester Brown

Sammy Harkham

Ron Rege Jr.

Mat Brinkman

Al Columbia

Eddie Campbell

CF
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Gary Panter

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:16 (4 years ago) Permalink

Robert Syrett

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:17 (4 years ago) Permalink

I really like Rob's Robert Blake song.

― Magin 'Pedro' Johnson's magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:18 (4 years ago) Permalink

oh man i love al columbia so much. is that from the blab strip?

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:18 (4 years ago) Permalink

Those Paul Noble drawings are amazing in person.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

The Al Columbia is from one of his Zero Zero pieces, "Amnesia" I think.

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

I need to check out some of Rob's songs -- I haven't been keeping up to date at all.

www.xip.nu

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 03:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

Andrew Guenthor

Ann Craven

Hernan Bas

Max Maslansky

Jeremy Dickinson

Thoralf Knobloch

Martin Eder

Martin Borowski

Marcella S Nelson

Sylvan Lionni

Michel Majerus

Marina Kappos

Regine Kolle

Torben Giehler

Scott Adam

Isabel Kirschner

― Penguin USA Paper, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 19:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

Arturo Herrera

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 16 October 2005 20:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

oops, that second one should go:

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 16 October 2005 20:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

This thread is great. I've been avoiding it for a few weeks because of overwork and a bad mood, but I'm glad I checked it out.

Glennray Tutor

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 16 October 2005 21:04 (4 years ago) Permalink

Ron Mueck

Dwayne Hanson

Erick Swenson

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:22 (4 years ago) Permalink

Till Freiwald

Eckhard-Etzold

Johannes Schramm

Simon Willems

Chris Doyle

Evan Lintermans

Stella Lai

Changha Hwang

Rover Feyer

Christoph Steinmeyer

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 16:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

maurizio cattelan

vanessa beecroft

nadia naveau

paul noble (another for him, best thing i saw at the Ecstasy show, must be seen in person)
ihttp://www.spamula.net/blog/i27/nobson01.jpg

eija-liisa ahtila (second favorite thing from the ecstasy show)

lee bul

danica phelps
ihttp://www.grinnell.edu/faulconergallery/pastexhib/2004-2005/images%5C2DanicaPhelps.jpg
adam cvijanovic

constant nieuwenhuis

yinka shonibare

m/m
http://www.mmparis.com/About.GIF

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 17:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

Todd Hebert

Will Cotton

Jim Torok

Peter Dreher has apparently painted this water glass every day for years.

Adam Stennett

Angela De Rosette

Daniel Dove

Mitsuko Miwa

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

Those Torok paintings are tiny, less than 3 inches tall. On my screen, they appear bigger than life size.

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 17:39 (4 years ago) Permalink

Looking through a back issue of Artforum, I noticed some interesting abex stuff by a person called Suling Wang. On google, I find that there is a Suling Wang who is an abstract painter, and there is a Suling Wang who is an illustrator, primarily of children's books. I suspect these are different people, but am not entirely sure.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

Replacing some broken images

Kristin Baker

Chris Larson

Chinatsu Ban

Hiraki Sawa

Richard Patterson

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

ten more

mapplethorpe plain portraits done b/w 72 and 85

meredith allen

carl fudge:

via art in america:
He begins with a reproducton of an erotic Ukiyo-e print, cuts it up into fragments too small to convey narrative information, recasts those fragments in axially symmetric "inkblots," and silkscreens the resulting grid-based pattern onto the picture plane.

richard tuttle

Karen Arm

Bill Owens

Linda Anderson

Boas

ive also been really obsessed w. traditonal basketweaving among blackfoot and kootenay, but i cannot find any really good sites.

― anthony, Thursday, 3 November 2005 06:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

lets try these three again:

this mapplethorpe portrait of iggy pop is a bit more animated then similar ones of fran leobwitz, etc but it works...

here is the carl fudge...and i think i like him for his anglo reclaiming of the paint and decoration school, aside from the high conceptual, here is one of his prints

and this is one of the meredith allen photos--

― anthony, Thursday, 3 November 2005 06:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Jane Fine

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 26 November 2005 20:54 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Asuka Ohsawa, who I posted about upthread, is showing in LA again.

Margaret Adachi, Asuka Ohsawa, Sylvia Tan
earthly creatures
January 21 – February 25, 2006
Opening reception: Saturday, January 21, 6-9pm

L M A N gallery
949 Chung King Road Los Angeles CA 90012
Contact: Lawrence Man
213.628.3883, Fax 213.628.3882
E-mail,
Web site,
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12-6pm; and by appointment

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 08:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

Ulrich Lamfuss

Jorg Lozek

Shary Boyle

Yuichi Yokoyama

Dan Attoe

Otto Muehl

Another nice Jacob Magraw

Rover Feyer, whose image link above seems to be broken.

― Penguin USA Paper, Monday, 30 January 2006 23:48 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

― account settings (account), Sunday, 5 March 2006 01:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

buenisima toda la pagina!!!

― jesus leguizamo, Thursday, 9 March 2006 21:57 (4 years ago) Permalink

Trenton Doyle Hancock

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 12 March 2006 14:24 (4 years ago) Permalink

Rachel Whiteread

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 12 March 2006 14:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

Ann Harwell (North Carolina "folk artist" who makes quilts from, among other things, NASA photos):

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:14 (4 years ago) Permalink

wesley burt

― account settings (account), Monday, 20 March 2006 22:00 (4 years ago) Permalink

Tom McGrath

Nigel Cooke

Detail:

Julia Jacquette

Ryan Trecartin. I saw his show at QED in Culver City. The installation seemed so-so, but the video 'A Family Finds Entertainment' is really funny, and I don't normally have much of a weakness for John Watersy stuff.

Stefanie Schneider

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

Also, this was somewhere in LA's Chinatown last Semptember. I don't know the name of the piece, the artist, or the gallery (which has since closed). I don't remember if I saw it in person because I was so drunk.

― Penguin USA Paper, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 21:16 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Yeah, I have to say I'm a big fan of Peter Day Jackson. (Articles, works, & bio behind link, or click here: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/matthew_day_jackson.htm).

Jonathan Meese, I find simply irritating.

― Lilly Write, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 23:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

Already mentioned above by Penguin USA Paper, but:

Erika Somogyi

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 23:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

i was extremely excited and then deeply saddened when, as i was scrolling down, i saw ten pieces of art all in a row that i truly love and was ecstatic to see that someone else loved all of them as well... only to realize i had posted them.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 27 April 2006 04:11 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Aida Klein

Charlotta Westergren

Jill Greenberg

― account (account), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

Bertrand Meniel

Clive Head

― account (account), Friday, 9 June 2006 19:08 (4 years ago) Permalink

Benjamin Degen

Bill Brown

HalfLifers (Anthony Discenza and Torsten Z. Burns)

Matthew Ronay

Ben Butler

Rowena Dring

― Pengo Junior (Penguin USA Paper), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

oops
Bill Brown

― Penguin USA Paper (Penguin USA Paper), Thursday, 15 June 2006 20:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

Shigeki Hayashi

― carrey the cable guy (account), Wednesday, 21 June 2006 21:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Kelsey Brookes

Aiyana Udesen

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:07 (4 years ago) Permalink

Kim Cogan

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

boo cutting up gifs

i take it all back kim cogan

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Thursday, 10 August 2006 22:13 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Been thinking about these two lately:

Chris Foss

Syd Mead

― Penguin USA Paper (Penguin USA Paper), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:04 (4 years ago) Permalink

Also, Vija Celmins deserves some better pictures.

― Penguin USA Paper (Penguin USA Paper), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:09 (4 years ago) Permalink

grebt

― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Friday, 25 August 2006 19:41 (4 years ago) Permalink

bump

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

Erika Somogyi, whose images are broken above.

Self-indulgently, here are some of mine. They are part of my 'sweater series.' Two old ones, and one in-progress. These JPEGs are slightly larger than life-size, on my screen at least.

― Penguin USA Paper (Penguin USA Paper), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 20:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

Oh actually photobucket reduced them, so they're a little smaller than life-size. No excuses!

― Penguin USA Paper (Penguin USA Paper), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:02 (3 years ago) Permalink

good work, dude.

this thread makes me want to leave work and go paint.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

somogyi needs to take a break from painting while the lsd after-effects clear out of her system

― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

i think we should move this thread to the noise board so i can delete richard prince bullshit.

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 21:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, I don't like being forced to give an "OK" to Richard Prince whenever I open the thread.

― Penguin USA Paper (Penguin USA Paper), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 23:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

― Penguin USA Paper (Penguin USA Paper), Saturday, 16 September 2006 22:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

Henry Coombes

On the middle right of this image, you can see what most impressed me about this installation: the talking pie.

― Pengo Junior (Penguin USA Paper), Monday, 18 September 2006 18:58 (3 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

RIP CSS FUCKERY

― sanskrit, Sunday, 25 February 2007 16:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

This and the other threads have gotten so long and unwieldy that Jeff and I have decided to just do a blog.

It'll be the same kind of thing, more or less daily, so if anyone reads this thread, please join us at the official roni horn memorial blog:

http://visualinventory.blogspot.com

― Penguin USA Paper, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 19:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

So much good stuff on this thread. ILX keeps me interested in art.

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 23 April 2008 20:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

cough

― jeff, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 07:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

can highly recommend the Vilhelm Hammershøi exhibition at the RA (London) - turn of the century interiors, either empty or with a single figure facing away from the viewer. Very subtle, almost minimalist, a sense of privacy, a slght feeling of the sinister.

― ledge, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 13:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

― ledge, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 13:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

Tom Friedman show at the Gagosian with a piece using artist's boogers.

― gnarly sceptre, Thursday, 3 July 2008 11:24 (2 years ago) Permalink

blog is still going strong!

http://visualinventory.blogspot.com

― jeff, Thursday, 3 July 2008 16:40 (2 years ago) Permalink

http://www.codytrepte.com/

It would be so retarded to put a picture link because this guy seems quite in thrall to the dematerialzation of the art object dudes as well as 90's conceptualism (good thing, anyone giving props to Felix Gonzalez Torres is down with me)

Seriously check this guy out, really nice realization of very elegant ideas about technology and memory and emotion. His reinterpretation of Perfect Lovers is so simple and brilliant, the audacity of someone who doesn't feel the need to smother their work with themselves.

― I know, right?, Saturday, 12 July 2008 21:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

i knew it would b you!

― Surmounter, Saturday, 12 July 2008 21:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

Haha!

Greatheads up on Hammershoi and Friedman btw. Friedman is one of those guys where I pick and choose the stuff I like, so (as usual) the show was only half successful. Hammershoi was a revelation since i've only scarcely come across him in books. Portraits were all disturbingly impersonal studies in subtle shades.

Recommend both though.

― I know, right?, Sunday, 13 July 2008 14:01 (2 years ago) Permalink

Martin Creed

― I know, right?, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 11:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Bonnie Sklarski:

Futoshi Miyagi:

Giuseppe Liuciani:

― I know, right?, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 16:46 (2 years ago) Permalink

shameless blog bump: http://visualinventory.blogspot.com

― jeff, Monday, 18 August 2008 22:56 (2 years ago) Permalink

― I know, right?, Friday, 29 August 2008 19:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

Bernard Frize btw, can't get enough of him these days

― I know, right?, Friday, 29 August 2008 19:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

So clever

― I know, right?, Friday, 29 August 2008 19:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

Stefan Muller

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, 4 January 2009 17:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Gunther Forg

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, 4 January 2009 17:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, 4 January 2009 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

^Kishio Suga

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, 4 January 2009 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Mary Heilmann and Blinky Palermo I love you.

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 14 March 2009 01:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Also, reading old issues of Modern Painters and Art in America today and getting really excited about these pictures

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 14 March 2009 01:14 (1 year ago) Permalink

aurel schmidt

― Duderonomy 1:69-420 (iiiijjjj), Saturday, 14 March 2009 01:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

... Blinky Palermo I love you.

Now I will have "Bitchin' Camaro" by the Dead Milkmen stuck in my head.

― what happened? I'm confused. (sarahel), Saturday, 14 March 2009 01:56 (1 year ago) Permalink

I am in Felix Gonzalez-Torres-hypermode right now and loving it!

― mehlt, Saturday, 14 March 2009 04:43 (1 year ago) Permalink

Haha! I rarely leave that!

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 14 March 2009 10:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

My goal is to find an exhibition of his, go everyday, and steal enough candy to make a full pile in my bedroom.

― mehlt, Saturday, 14 March 2009 13:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

Someone I know actually did stuff his pockets from one of those.

― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Saturday, 14 March 2009 14:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Nick Cave (the other one):

― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Saturday, 14 March 2009 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

I've often considered buying a pair of clocks for my room also.

― mehlt, Saturday, 14 March 2009 14:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

those nick cave soundsuits are awesome

― double dutch bus schedule (donna rouge), Saturday, 14 March 2009 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

as for me, i've been thinking bout:

jesper just

jennifer west

mel bochner

― double dutch bus schedule (donna rouge), Saturday, 14 March 2009 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

fred einaudi

http://bp0.blogger.com/_mk-LiBhV7-M/R-19TtXDk8I/AAAAAAAAACs/msao2Mg8M8c/s400/chocolate+donut.jpg

http://bp1.blogger.com/_mk-LiBhV7-M/R-1-w9XDlDI/AAAAAAAAADk/rAQx8hRuP84/s400/patriot.jpg

http://bp2.blogger.com/_mk-LiBhV7-M/R-1-RNXDlAI/AAAAAAAAADM/2jEDJfCqWiE/s400/specimen.jpg

― Roz, Saturday, 14 March 2009 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

crap. let's try that again:

― Roz, Saturday, 14 March 2009 18:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

What was the picture that used to be on here of the cube (3x3? 4x4) of smaller cubes of meat?

― dowd, Saturday, 14 March 2009 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.cindywright.org/

― filipino wilson (jeff), Sunday, 15 March 2009 03:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

why is there a pop-up that says "richard prince" when i click on this thread

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Sunday, 15 March 2009 03:26 (1 year ago) Permalink

Thanks Jeff - I only vaguely remembered it.

― dowd, Sunday, 15 March 2009 08:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

MUCH LOVE for mickalene thomas right now:

― zurück zum Traphaus (donna rouge), Sunday, 19 April 2009 21:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

My goal is to find an exhibition of his, go everyday, and steal enough candy to make a full pile in my bedroom.

― mehlt, Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:12 PM (2 months ago)

great post,

joe, the first time I saw any Jesper Just was when I wandered into a retrospective of sorts in the Rotterdam contempoartc. I think for such sensual work it needs to be shown really richly and generously.

― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 13:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

Everyone in NYC should go see the Aernout Mik show at MoMA

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

while at MoMA, go see the Paul Graham exhibit and the photographs of the American West.

Right now is like the perfect storm in nyc for exhibits that are in my wheelhouse, and therefore I am thinking about the following artists:

Richard Prince
Louise Lawler
Jenny Holzer
Barbara Kruger

― t0dd swiss, Thursday, 21 May 2009 03:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah, plan to see the jenny holzer on its last weekend when friends are in town

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 21 May 2009 04:07 (1 year ago) Permalink

Xposts

Except the problem would be, once I get a full pile I know I'd never even touch it, let alone let people take candy, pretty much voiding the work.

I think I'd like to read up on Cy Twombly this summer. . .

― Edward Saroyan, Thursday, 21 May 2009 04:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Glennray Tutor

― supersonic, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 16:35 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

I am semi-appalled and disgusted by how great these are, I don't think I'm picking up on half the tricks this guy is using.

Jered Sprecher

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Sunday, 16 August 2009 12:57 (1 year ago) Permalink

also, yes ruth root!

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Sunday, 16 August 2009 14:42 (1 year ago) Permalink

http://www.vimeo.com/4768078

can't wait for this documentary about sister corita

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 22:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

glenn ligon

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 23:05 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

richard aldrich:

this is maybe one of my favourite paintings ever btw

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈colinda❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Monday, 14 September 2009 14:29 (11 months ago) Permalink

Right now I am gear up into Christian Boltanski hypermode.

― EDB, Monday, 14 September 2009 14:54 (11 months ago) Permalink

can't find any good pictures of his drawings which i saw a few days ago and was blown away by, but here are some tetsumi kudo sculptures:

― xuxa pitts (donna rouge), Monday, 14 September 2009 17:16 (11 months ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

Back to Felix-Gonzales Torres hypermode!

I was just awarded a fellowship (!!!) to do research on artistic forms of representation and mourning amid the AIDS crisis, so at last I'll get to really get busy on FGT, but also Robert Gober! This isn't a field of interest I'm too well versed on, so if anyone else has particularly apposite examples...

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Friday, 21 May 2010 23:40 (3 months ago) Permalink

That is, of other artists dealing with aids in non-obvious, highly coded ways.

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Saturday, 22 May 2010 00:09 (3 months ago) Permalink

I know he's kind of old news, but I've been thinking about Mark Ryden lately:

― Darin, Monday, 24 May 2010 14:46 (3 months ago) Permalink

@EDB - If it's not too far afield, your study could encompass musical responses to AIDS such as Diamanda Galas' Plague Mass and Bob Ostertag's All the Rage.

― Scelsi Hotel (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 24 May 2010 15:44 (3 months ago) Permalink

Robert Blanchon is a hip ref. these days i think

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 16:30 (3 months ago) Permalink

i came here to post blanchon ;_;

― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:08 (3 months ago) Permalink

(although a good deal of his stuff overtly addresses AIDS)

― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:09 (3 months ago) Permalink

larry johnson's work is all about codes tho!

― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 17:20 (3 months ago) Permalink

My Ostertag and Galas examples fail the "non-obvious, highly-coded" test, so never mind!

― Scelsi Hotel (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, 24 May 2010 18:38 (3 months ago) Permalink

kinda makes sense that people who were directly thinking about aids would be more didactic in their approach whereas other queer artist thinking about the body etc. favour strategies recontextualisation/subversion as an analogue for like cruising/subversive sites of pleasure or whatevs. FGT kind of just sits at the intersection between Tom Burr/Roni Horn queer appropriations of Minimalism and General Idea style agit prop.

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 19:28 (3 months ago) Permalink

@EDB - If it's not too far afield, your study could encompass musical responses to AIDS such as Diamanda Galas' Plague Mass and Bob Ostertag's All the Rage.

― Scelsi Hotel (Paul in Santa Cruz), Monday, May 24, 2010 10:44 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink I'm very interested in this, and think I'm actually going to make an ILM thread about it, especially given my interests in house and disco during this time. However, given the fellowship's theme of "image and spectacle", I'll be specifically writing on strategies of representing the AIDS infected body such that the imposition of Ronald Reaganian Silence and the shutting down of Mapplethorpe exhibitions, etc. can be circumvented (in a way that does differ from General Idea style agit prop, i.e. the sort of explicitness of say ACT UP. In the space between silence and silencable, if you know what I mean).

If I may quote FGT: “Two clocks side by side are much more threatening to the powers that be than an image of two guys sucking each other’s dicks, because they cannot use me as a rallying point in their battle to erase meaning. It is going to be very difficult for members of Congress to tell their constituents that money is being expended for the promotion of homosexual art when all they have to show are two plugs side by side, or two mirrors side by side, or two light bulbs side by side.”

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, 24 May 2010 19:58 (3 months ago) Permalink

So wait, are there TWO famous people with HIV named Larry Johnson?

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, 24 May 2010 19:59 (3 months ago) Permalink

btw, its back in print and this book is pretty solid for FGT sources

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:10 (3 months ago) Permalink

i mean

http://www.amazon.com/Felix-Gonzalez-Torres-Miwon-Kwon/dp/3865211968

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:11 (3 months ago) Permalink

plax otm, was thinking the same about the initial query, e.g. that most artists addressing AIDS in the '80s directly named it (probably because of how little national discourse there was about it, or that the conversation being had about it on that level wasn't interesting/didn't address the realities of the disease), cf. general idea's appropriation of robert indiana, AIDS activist tapes, etc

i don't know whether or not LJ the visual artist has AIDS but some of his work addresses it, however obliquely (his pieces about the kennedy family, like the one i linked to above, which are tied to discourses on mourning, celebrity, hustling etc).

― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:16 (3 months ago) Permalink

i need to stop saying 'discourse'

― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:17 (3 months ago) Permalink

nah its a good word

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:17 (3 months ago) Permalink

Xposts: that book was the first thing I had planned to get, actually.

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:24 (3 months ago) Permalink

a lot of the full essays are readily available on the internet and its bulked out w/ sontag and barthes but worth it for the shorter statements and the repros are A+

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:27 (3 months ago) Permalink

EDB where are you based? if you have enough fellowship $ you should travel to nyc and visit the FGT foundation, they've got tons of literature on him there

― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:31 (3 months ago) Permalink

can anybody just visit that btw?

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:32 (3 months ago) Permalink

gotta make an appointment and have a viable research project first iirc

― joe scarborough and peoples (donna rouge), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:34 (3 months ago) Permalink

pfft viable research project

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:40 (3 months ago) Permalink

I was wondering about that too, I have no idea what they do/ what's actually there, I just imagine that all the offices come with a pair of clocks and the candy bowl at the reception is always plentiful.

I live in Toronto, but was thinking about taking a trip up to New York this summer anyways. The fellowship offers money for travel and research, actually; I was joking with people before that if my University wants to send me to go to new york for a week to stop in to the Felix Gonzalez-Torres foundation I'd certainly accept.

And bulked out w/ sontag and barthes is not a bad thing, for me at least.

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:42 (3 months ago) Permalink

welll its just death of the author and the voicover from unguided tour

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:44 (3 months ago) Permalink

but yeah, me neither

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 20:44 (3 months ago) Permalink

Naming Names: The Art of Memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt is an awesome essay abt the aids quilt that raises a lot of issues wrt to instigating a venue for memorial/discourse/activism around aids related issues and implies why a more overt language was needed in contrast to, as joe says, the mainstream suppression of the gay men's health crisis.

― plax (ico), Monday, 24 May 2010 22:49 (3 months ago) Permalink

Btw EDB i think Tony Feher might be worth looking into but I won't pretend I know a whole lot about him.

― plax (ico), Friday, 28 May 2010 21:57 (3 months ago) Permalink

like he makes these really intimate sculptures out of found materials and is all "intensely personal language" and also has been included in a good few AIDS related group shows

― plax (ico), Friday, 28 May 2010 22:07 (3 months ago) Permalink

Thanks a lot. The above mention (or introduction, for me) to Tom Burr was useful, given that post minimalism is kind of my thing, and so he is someone I plan to look into.

As I think about it more, I think that this: "queer artist thinking about the body etc. favour strategies recontextualisation/subversion as an analogue for like cruising/subversive sites of pleasure or whatevs." is the sort of thing I want to pursue (granted, not so much in the context of cruising and pleasure so much as in terms of a site to talk about disease and mourning). Given that this is not an area of familiarity for me, I think it's definitely best to be careful to make claims about means of viable activism, but I'll see what I think after I've done research on all this.

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Saturday, 29 May 2010 02:28 (3 months ago) Permalink

Otherwise:
Mark Bradford is an artist whose work I think is really beautiful, and also makes me want to rush to the library and read up on critical urban geography written about Los Angeles.

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Saturday, 29 May 2010 02:35 (3 months ago) Permalink

Really fucking tired of art that makes ironic use of childish themes.

― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Saturday, 29 May 2010 02:41 (3 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

who did those hotel room sculptures in the 70s by piling all the furniture into piles and photographing them. i remember seeing these all the time for a while and now i cant for the life of me remember who it was and ive tried googling this. this is like how it took me years to re-find tom friedman after i heard about him in secondary school.

― plax (ico), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:21 (1 month ago) Permalink

also edb i have been thinking about your thesis proposal since the last revive and i am now jealous i am not writing it.

― plax (ico), Tuesday, 27 July 2010 23:24 (1 month ago) Permalink

turns out i was thinking of florian slotawa

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 08:58 (1 month ago) Permalink

An artist I have been 'thinking about' ;) <3 <3 <3

― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:44 (1 month ago) Permalink

hmm, that did not work

― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:45 (1 month ago) Permalink

― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:48 (1 month ago) Permalink

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