ten visual artists i have been thinking about

http://www.monotremata.com/bos/disc/died.jpg

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

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.

1. karel funk

http://www.303gallery.com/artists/funk/img/KF-006.jpg

2. tim gardner

http://www.303gallery.com/artists/gardner/img/TG-306.jpg

3. chad robertson

http://www.chadrobertson.com/images_artwork/images/set3001l.jpg

4. robert olsen

http://www.robertolsenart.com/images/concrete.jpg

5. connie jenkins

http://artnet.com/artwork_images/629/146150.jpg

6. bruce everett

http://artnet.com/artwork_images/629/146147.jpg

7. glenn brown

http://artnet.com/artwork_images/414/106964.jpg

8. paul pfeiffer

http://artnet.com/artwork_images/414/133378.jpg

9. robert cottingham

http://artnet.com/artwork_images/737/106299.jpg

10. mark tansey

http://artnet.com/artwork_images/414/133359.jpg

I endorse this thread, more artists and picz plz.

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.

http://www.moneycab.com/de/home/lifestyle/art/ausstellungen/050205_atlantic_bukarest_basel_th.ArticlePar.0002.Image.jpg
http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/publications/week/2005/050408/Photos/art_demand_DivingBoard_moma.jpg
http://raster.art.pl/prezentacje/television/11%20Demand.jpg
http://www.camera-austria.at/artikel-prints/1287955114-1.jpg
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/assets/img/data/1801/bild.jpg
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/1996/newphoto12/jpegs/demand.jpeg

http://www.damelioterras.com/picts/DB-9-PTG.JPG

!

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

like me!!!

Neter
http://www.dilettantepress.com/artists/neter/neter_eyes.jpg

Kurt Kauper
http://www.kurtkauper.com/works/divas/diva_14.html

Michael Wolf
http://www.masslogue.com/archives/img/wolf2.jpg

Chris Jordan
http://www.spaceandculture.org/circuit_boards.jpg

Ding Yi
http://www.shanghart.com/artists/dingyi/images/bdy362.jpg

Gary Panter
http://www.garypanter.com/work_finart_drawsktbooks_images/02_burnmonster1_sketch_L.jpg

Chris Forgues
http://www.kramersergot.com/images/kramersergot/ke4/cf.jpg

Peter Doig
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/arts/2002/04/16/doig.jpg

Bernd and Hilla becher
http://www.bernhardknaus-art.de/Bilder/Becher_Fachwerk.jpg

stephen shore
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/resources/13704/Shore_066-300.jpg

doug aitken
http://www.fabricworkshop.org/exhibitions/images/aitken2.jpg

tomory dodge
http://www.acmelosangeles.com/artists/dodge/td_afterparty/a__TD-After_Party__04.jpg

tim hawkinson
http://www.creativepool-compensis.de/mood_art/artimages/hawkinson9.jpg

francis alys
http://raster.art.pl/prezentacje/walser/Alys.jpg

william pope.l
http://www.mainearts.com/news/newsletter/2003-3/images/wallstreet.jpg

sam durant
http://www.123soho.com/feature_wk/feature_image/venice/16.jpg

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.

http://www.kravetswehbygallery.com/art/1103754116.jpg

13. wendell gladstone

http://www.kravetswehbygallery.com/art/1086893134.jpg

14. robert russell

http://robertrussell.net/images/denny.jpg http://www.annahelwinggallery.com/HELWING/images/russell/RR07.jpg http://robertrussell.net/images/pushingbig.JPG

http://www.jacquesbodin.com/Photos/de%20dos%20XI.jpg

16. kate waters

http://www.hyperrealism.net/photos/kate%20waters%205.jpg

17. yvette froment

http://www.hyperrealism.net/photos/Yvette%20Froment.jpg

http://raster.art.pl/prezentacje/television/11%20Demand.jpg

http://www.whitney.org/learning/art/close-1969-420-1.jpg

http://ithaca.different-day.com/archives/mirror/PhilIII_ChuckClose.jpg )

Alec Soth
http://www.pdngallery.com/gallery/pdns30/2004/images/soth_alec.jpg

THAKNS!

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.

Doug Wada
http://www.elizabethdeegallery.com/artists/doug_wada/300-dw-rotation.jpg

Kevin Wolff
http://www.featureinc.com/artists_bios/images/images_wolff/Big_Mug_1999_n.jpg

Kristin Baker
http://www.acmelosangeles.com/artists/baker/kb_9sec/w_kb_9secstop05.jpg

Neal Rock
http://www.kontainergallery.com/artists/neal_rock/new05.05/2-2_big.jpg

Trever Wentworth
http://bloggy.com/mt/archives/trever_wentworth.jpg

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dnbastille/conseil/bizarre2.gif

http://artnet.com/artwork_images_113929_159288_Carles-Congost.jpg

20. Philip Lorca DiCorcia

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_295_154_Philip-Lorca-DiCorcia.jpg

21. Gregory Crewdson

http://artnet.com/artwork_images_424046260_153599_Gregory-Crewdson.jpg

22. Charlie White

http://artnet.com/artwork_images_111885_130744_Charlie-White.jpg

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

also longo.

i wish i had known about this show!

http://artnet.com/artwork_images/173223/143450.jpg

24. Cindy Craig

http://artnet.com/artwork_images/173223/138663.jpg

25. Patti Oleon

http://artnet.com/artwork_images/173223/114853.jpg

26. Davis Cone

http://www.forumgallery.com/images/bios/dc_radio_city.jpg

27. Patty Wickman

http://artnet.com/artwork_images/173223/85084.jpg

Susan Logoreci
http://www.cirrusgallery.com/cirruspics/Logoreci/Logoreci_drw_004-04-SL_full.jpg

Andrew Kuo
http://www.artistsspace.org/webspace/2004/feb04/04.jpg

Alex Brown
http://www.featureinc.com/artists_bios/images/images_brown/abf0401-L.jpg

Chris Larson
http://www.rare-gallery.com/artists/ChrisLarson/im2.jpg

Maurizio Cattelan
http://www.bmxmusic.com/fart_therapy/squirrel/dead_squirrel_big.jpg

Christian Schumann
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/saltz/Images/saltz6-22-6.jpg

Odd Nerdrum
http://www.oriononline.org/images/om/03_1om/Nerdrum/WaterProtectors550.jpg

Greg Rose
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/wood/Images/wood3-22-7.jpg

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

Here's a few favorites of mine:

Robert Schwartz
http://www.sjmusart.org/dynamic_content/eventImages/Sw_PaintedonaLeaf_large.jpg

David Rathman (the captions are an integral part of these pieces; this one reads, "funny how time slips away")
http://www.clementine-gallery.com/img/funnyhowtime1.jpg

Xie Nanxing
http://galerie-meile.ch/XieNanxing/untitled0010.jpg

Dan Hays
http://www.eyestorm.com/images/big/bwork10377.jpg

Wilhelm Sasnal
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/sasnal/Anka.jpg

Dirk Skreber
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/skreber2/Skreber_HoHoHo3

Cecily Brown
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/brown/Brown_HighSociety.

Jenny Saville
http://pds.egloos.com/pds/1/200501/11/66/b0045266_2316167.jpg

Luc Tuymans
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue1/img/i1_a3_1.jpg

Yuko Murata
http://image.excite.co.jp/jp/dazed2/people/murata_yuko/Fog_big.jpg

Chris Dorland
http://www.marcselwynfineart.com/images/artists/dorland/WhenWe%20WereYoung05.jpg

Cristina Lei Rodriguez
http://www.kontainergallery.com/artists/cristina_lei_rodriguez/6am.jpg

Kaz Oshiro
http://www.auntbeep.com/imagesinfo/links/BlogPics/THING_Oshiro_pinkmarshallstack-300.jpg

http://artnet.com/artwork_images_111_135817_Marilyn-Minter.jpg

http://www.artthrob.co.za/99july/images/venice-amer.jpg

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.

http://www.kunstbeeld.nl/images/Berlijn/Mehretu_05.jpg

http://artnet.com/artwork_images_488_165575_Franz-Gertsch.jpg

Andreas Gursky
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~squires/gursky/pics/gursky_99cent.jpg

Gottfried Helnwein
http://www.helnwein.com/stc/ghpicts/gh1729.jpg

Bodys Isek Kingelez
http://www.kunstdunst.de/images4/afrika10.jpg

Lisa Yuskavage
http://www.contemporaryartproject.com/cap/images/big_art_yuskavage.jpg

A little self indulgent, but I'd also like to repost Peter Doig with a better picture
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/doig/Doig_WhiteCanoe.jpg

Jeff Koons
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/koons/images/koons_image.jpg

Erwin Wurm
http://www.detterer.de/bilder/sculp.jpg

http://www.samsonprojects.com/images/notorious/asuka%20Ohsawa.jpg

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images/423921915/124112.jpg

http://smfa.edu/images/Alumni/asset_upload_file108_5168.jpg

http://www.plumblossoms.com/WeiDong/images/CX0143LG.jpg
http://www.plumblossoms.com/WeiDong/images/CX0132LG.jpg
http://www.jacktiltongallery.com/images/artists/wei%20dong/goldfish4.jpg
ihttp://www.plumblossoms.com/WeiDong/images/CX130aaLG.jpg

http://www.folkartmuseum.org/images/afam_1157.jpg

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.

some more stuff
tamara henderson
http://www.tuffshit.iputthedotinthe.com/mist/images/betuff.jpg
Brent Wadden
http://www.tuffshit.iputthedotinthe.com/images/bw05moodz4.jpg
Mario Campos
http://www.cassetteplaya.com/mariocampos/Images/baseball(small).gif

Tom Friedman
http://www.culturevulture.net/ArtandArch/tomfriedmanpic.jpg

Mike Slack
http://art.webesteem.pl/6/img/slack_47_th_big.jpg

Jason Fulford
http://saltworksgallery.com/images/summer04.jpg

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

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

Yang Qian
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_168786_126833_Yang-Qian.jpg

Song Kun
http://www.la-gallery-beijing.com/artists/song/images/arts/Incog/Incog%20%20No.5%2065x91cm%202003.jpg

Jake and Dinos Chapman (more the small cute models and less the big fiberglass mutant kids)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lpbrull/digipage/digipage/HELL/pics/chap19.jpg

Genevieve Castree
http://www.departmentofsafety.com/art/auction_2004/photos/genevieve_poster.jpg

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

http://www.juncgallery.com/images/jacob_1.gif

http://artnet.com/magazine/reviews/green/Images/green10-9-4.jpg

http://www.jessicajoslin.com/Jessica.jpg

Elizabeth Peyton
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_139237_106508_Elizabeth-Peyton.jpg

Otto Duecker
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_498_169560_Otto-Duecker.jpg

Andrew Grassie
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/23/graphics/large/andrew_grassie.jpg

Magnus Von Plessen
http://www.raster.art.pl/prezentacje/wenecja2003/VonPlessen.jpg
http://www.navadopress.com/untitled0/MVP%2024.gif

Randall Sellers
http://www.randallsellers.com/images/actualsize/cloudthreearches.jpg

Jeff Shore and John Fisher
http://angstromgallery.com/JSPWiki/attach?page=JeffShore%2Fshore1.jpg

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

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

Matt Johnson
http://www.artnet.de/Images/magazine/features/grundy/grundy03-07-05-8.jpg

Jedediah Caesar
http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/resources/13291/JCaesar.jpg

Cindy Wright
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_183461_176169_Cindy-Wright.jpg

Frank Bauer
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_139943_173337_Frank-Bauer.jpg

Yang Shaobin
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_93_166124_Yang-Shaobin.jpg

Matt Saunders
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_48_51797_Matt-Saunders.jpg

Shen Liang
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_636_173830_Shen-Liang.jpg

Steinar Jacobsen
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_79513_146130_Steinar-Jakobsen.jpg

Juan Francisco Casas
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_173582_106665_Juan-Francisco-Casas.jpg

Izvor Pende
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_424147897_174767_Izvor-Pende.jpg

Korehiko Hino
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_116241_148326_Korehiko-Hino.jpg

it makes me want to quit my job

http://www.jefframirez.com/images/2005-1020-04B.jpg

doctor, please tell me this one

24. Cindy Craig

[138663.jpg]

is a photo

So's this one
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_173223_138664_Cindy-Craig.jpg

Malcolm Morley
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/cfinch/Images/finch5-17-2.jpg

Silvia Gertsch
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_1112_135863_Silvia-Gertsch.jpg

Stephan Kaluza
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_139943_139411_Stephan-Kaluza.jpg

Christoph Schmidberger
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_183461_130737_Christoph-Schmidberger.jpg

Damien Loeb
http://www.damianloeb.com/paintingscans/enhancezm.jpg
http://www.damianloeb.com/paintingscans/goodafternnoonmramer.gif

Paul Galloway
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_455_103335_Paul-Galloway.jpg

Chen Wenbo
http://www.la-gallery-beijing.com/site-c/artists/chenwenbo/images/12.jpg

Simon Keenleyside
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_424299450_175381_Simon-Keenleyside.jpg

Sylvain Tremblay
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_424007192_146407_Sylvain-Tremblay.jpg

Echo Eggebrecht
http://www.sixtysevengallery.com/artists/eggebrecht/img/3-apples.jpg

Neal Tait
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_424046260_129590_Neal-Tait.jpg

Doug Wada, reposted (the image above broke)
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/zinsser/Images/zinsser6-6-8.jpg
http://www.dkgallery.com/wada-dazeda.jpg

Dirk Skreber, reposted (ditto)
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/skreber2/Skreber_Traincross.jpg

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?

Keiko Miyata
http://www.h3.dion.ne.jp/~k-miyata/kote5.jpg

Marc Quinn
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_367_79909_Marc-Quinn.jpg

Neil Gall
http://www.halesgallery.com/gall/main/big/03.jpg

Andrew Holme
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/laplaca/Images/laplaca3-11-1.jpg

Josef Felix Muller
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_114890_129563_Josef-Felix-Muller.jpg

Adam Cvijanovic
http://www.bellwethergallery.com/images/artwork/large/Untitled(love-poem)web.jpg

Stephen Bush
http://www.goffandrosenthal.com/a/sb/sbbin/sb04.jpg

James Rieck
http://www.lyonswiergallery.com/artists/Rieck/Waist_Rieck.jpg

Paul Winstanley
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_2_160201_Paul-Winstanley.jpg

Cui Guotai
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_93_171880_Cui-Guotai.jpg

Fiona rae
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_192_159702_Fiona-Rae.jpg

Carl Fudge
http://www.drunkenboat.com/db3/fudge/rhapsody4a.jpg

Sean Dawson
http://www.ebrooker.demon.co.uk/artists/dawson/images/untitled.jpeg

Jason Brooks
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/laplaca/Images/laplaca3-11-6.jpg

Roland Hicks
http://www.hiscox.com/_microsite/Artprojects/_images/RH_pic19_420.gif

Chantal Joffe
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/22/artists/joffe.jpg

http://www.masters-of-fine-art-photography.com/artphotogallery/database/richard_avedon_01.jpg

http://www.masters-of-fine-art-photography.com/artphotogallery/database/richard_avedon_03.jpg

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

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.

http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgtsa905.jpg

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

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

Amie Dicke
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/honigman/Images/honigman1-28-12.jpg

Juliana Paciulli
http://www.black-dragon-society.com/archivimages/Angela_and_April.jpg

Enoc Perez
http://www.thehappylion.com/artists/perez/12.jpg

Jim Drain
http://jameswagner.com/mt_archives/DrainSourpuss.jpg

Yuken Teruya
http://www.murataandfriends.de/biography/Yuken_TERUYA/img/1-022.JPG
http://www.joseebienvenugallery.com/past/YT/images/mcfamily1.jpg

Benjamin Edwards
http://www.benjaminedwards.net/Works/images/the_pusan_experience.jpg

Chinatsu Ban
http://www.marianneboeskygallery.com/getimage.php?id=2512

Kaye Donachie
http://www.praguebiennale.org/images%20artists/lazarus/2-Kaje%20Donachie.jpg

Elisa Johns
http://www.black-dragon-society.com/archivimages/Flowers_and_Weeds.jpg

Jodie Mohr
http://www.black-dragon-society.com/archivimages/Casablanca.jpg

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_1006_124370_Malcolm-Morley.jpg

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_423941739_117634_Bill-Heard.jpg

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_737_131927_Tom-Thomas-Leo-Blackwell.jpg

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_424088987_178840_Karyn-Lyons.jpg

http://www.rebeccacampbell.net/Images/Crush%20Images/images/Salt%20Palace_jpg.jpg

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_423991310_147589_Terry-Rodgers.jpg

http://www.aeroplastics.net/after_nature/COOK/AEROPLASTICS_CC.jpg

http://www.aeroplastics.net/eric_white/large/OFC.jpg

i almost forgot about him

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

Hiraki Sawa
http://www.jamescohan.com/files/1619dd8e.jpg

Mark Tichtner
http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/archive/rearviewmirror_titc_k.jpg

Robert Lazzarini
http://www.deitch.com/files/slideshows/lazzarini_work_9.jpg

Folkert De Jong
http://www.upstreamgallery.nl/folkert/jongrijks4.jpg

Wolfgang Laib
http://www.speronewestwater.com/images/cached/SW_WORKS.image.1508.w500.JPG

Marnie Weber
http://www.rosamundfelsen.com/images/artwork/weber/f-Incantation_by_the_River.jpg

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OWENS.

http://www.ericdoeringer.com/bootlegs/bootlegpics/Biennial/owens.jpg http://www.art.csulb.edu/StudioTalk/assets/reviews/undiscovered_country_review/owens.jpg http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_112895_126879t_Laura-Owens.jpg http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/owens/about/bees_sm.jpg http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/owens/about/reflect.jpg

"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

Stephen Jung
http://www.haah.de/deutsch/stephan_jung/abbildungen/host2/host11_125x110.jpg

Delphine Courtillot
http://www.aspngalerie.de/images/courtillot_onemoretime_470x.jpg

Julie Farstad
http://mouthtomouthmag.com/coolgirls.jpg

Mark Stockton
http://www.match-art.com/sunday/images/stockton_sm.jpg

Lordan Bunch
http://www.davidsongalleries.com/artists/bunch/bunch_sunya_no1.jpg

Paul Noble (who is the Ecstasy show)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/collective/dnaimages/gallery/paulnoble/2.jpg

Erika Somogyi
http://www.throughthetrees.net/newwork/ancientburialground.jpg

Antje Majewski
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_295_95557_Antje-Majewski.jpg

Mark Takamichi Miller
http://www.howardhouse.net/artists/millermt/01908l.jpg

Xiaoze Xie
http://www.cowlesgallery.com/xie/XX12130lg.jpg

http://www.fusestudios.com/dietrick/1996/images/1_multipart_xF8FF_9_1996.05NatureIndoors.jpg

(the photo doesn't do them justice)

http://www.robertolsenart.com/images/buses.jpg http://www.robertolsenart.com/images/trash.jpg http://www.robertolsenart.com/images/elevatorinterior.jpg

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_105459_56699_Roxie-Munro.jpg

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_1161_60594_Gerhard-Richter.jpg

http://www.jefframirez.com/ilx/bechtle..jpg

http://www.kunstmarkt.com/kunstwerke/thumb450/1125498839_galerie_voss_d_sseldorf_.jpg

http://www.artincontext.org/images/LKM/0000/LKM0077D.jpg

http://www.artincontext.org/images/LKM/0100/LKM0178D.jpg

hilo chen

http://www.artincontext.org/images/LKM/0100/LKM0111D.jpg

http://www.artincontext.org/images/RFD/0000/RFD0002D.jpg

http://www.fine-art.com/members/31170/images/File4420825487.jpg

http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images/173223/166068.jpg

But, here's a couple...

Jim Hodges

Alfred Jensen

Goseki Kojima

R. Crumb

Xaime Hernandez

Mary Fleener

Jim Woodring

Lynda Barry

This diptych (which is also on display right now at Ecstasy)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/threwusall1b.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/thethrewus2c.jpg

And this big canvas:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/glennbrown512.jpg

And here are some Brian Jungen:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/jungen10-9-4.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/jungen3.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/jungen6.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/jungen7.jpg

And on the subject of photorealism, I don't think we have a Ralph Goings yet.
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/goings.jpg

One of my favorites (crap photo, in person the blacks are much richer) -
Daniel Blagg
http://www.artspace111.com/dababilene.jpg

Woodring is probably my first or second favorite living cartoonist. Here's another by him.
http://www.jimwoodring.com/graphics/frankinthehouse.jpg

Some more contemporary cartoonists:

Chester Brown
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/027002/f1/nlc002302-v6.jpg

Sammy Harkham
http://www.kramersergot.com/images/wedding_night_big.jpg

Ron Rege Jr.
http://www.geocities.com/ronregejr/skibber.gif

Mat Brinkman
http://www.kramersergot.com/images/ke4_cover.jpg

Al Columbia
http://www.comicartcollective.com/artImages/A8750C45-E1C5-4A91-AF7D283E62334BBF.jpg

Eddie Campbell
http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog/covers/alec_suit_lg.jpg

CF
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/cf.jpg

Gary Panter
http://www.garypanter.com/work_comics_images/15_jimbo3_comic.jpg

www.xip.nu

Ann Craven
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/AnnCraven-PinkMiracle2004oliosutela.jpg

Hernan Bas
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/hernanbas3.jpg

Max Maslansky
http://cherrydelosreyes.com/content/artist_imgs/MM_SecondCycle_web.jpg

Jeremy Dickinson
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/jed05_8a.jpg

Thoralf Knobloch
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/ThoralfKnobloch4.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/ThoralfKnobloch3.jpg

Martin Eder
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/MartinEder2.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/MartinEder4.jpg

Martin Borowski
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/MartinBorowskidia-beacon.jpg

Marcella S Nelson
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/MarcellaSNelsone9.gif http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/MarcellaSNelsone7.gif
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/MarcellaSNelsone4.gif http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/MarcellaSNelsone6.gif
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/MarcellaSNelsone3.gif http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/MarcellaSNelsone2.gif

Sylvan Lionni
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/SylvanLionniSunday-2004_jpg.jpg

Michel Majerus
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/michelmajerusnostylenopoints.jpg

Marina Kappos
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/kapposmarina1.jpg

Regine Kolle
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/Regine-KolleNakedBowling.jpg

Torben Giehler
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/giehlertorben.jpg

Scott Adam
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/scottadam1.jpg

Isabel Kirschner
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/Isabel-KirschnerResizeImg-1.jpg

Glennray Tutor

Dwayne Hanson
http://www.the-artists.org/media-new/hanson-queenie.jpg

Erick Swenson
http://www.angstromgallery.com/JSPWiki/attach?page=SwensonImages%2Fmonkeys.jpg

Eckhard-Etzold
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_168805_173306_Eckhard-Etzold.jpg

Johannes Schramm
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_1131_179520_Johannes-Schramm.jpg

Simon Willems
http://www.galeriepolaris.com/artistes/28/weareonlysleinggdp.jpg

Chris Doyle
http://ducts.org/06_05/images/art_gallery/watercolor/watercolor_images/CD_makingendlesslove.jpg

Evan Lintermans
http://angstromgallery.com/JSPWiki/attach?page=EvanLintermans%2Flintermans1.jpg

Stella Lai
http://www.tree-axis.com/stella/_images/4sea_1.jpg

Changha Hwang
http://www.massimoaudiello.com/artists/hwang2.jpg

Rover Feyer
http://www.suite106.com/images/artists/large/feyer_cluster.jpg

Christoph Steinmeyer
http://www.thehappylion.com/artists/steinmeyer/16.jpg

Will Cotton
http://www.willcotton.com/paintingscans/forest.gif

Jim Torok
http://www.billmaynes.com/images/torok_1a.jpg http://www.billmaynes.com/images/torok_1b.jpg
http://www.billmaynes.com/images/torok_3a.jpg http://www.billmaynes.com/images/torok_3b.jpg

Peter Dreher has apparently painted this water glass every day for years.
http://www.quintgallery.com/Artists/Dreher/dreher2.jpg http://www.patriciasweetowgallery.com/inventory/archives/Dreher-Install-5-thumb.jpg
http://www.uni-freiburg.de/bildkunst/artists/dreher/BILDER/ausstellung.jpg

Adam Stennett
http://www.adamstennett.com/paintingscansmice/threemousearmy.jpg

Angela De Rosette
http://www.angeladerosette.com/images/gallery/mid/there_is_no_justice_mid.jpg

Daniel Dove
http://www.danieldove.com/geo.jpg

Mitsuko Miwa
http://www.artindex.metro.tokyo.jp/img/topics/big/topics050324_a_big.jpg
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_423966238_139196_Mitsuko-Miwa.jpg

Kristin Baker
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/kristinbaker3.jpg

Chris Larson
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/LarsonChrispause.jpg

Chinatsu Ban
http://www.eidersuso.com/share/chinatsu.gif

Hiraki Sawa
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/HirakiSawadwelling1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/HirakiSawa_Dwelling_bathroom-web.jpg

Richard Patterson
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/PattersonJim6.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/PattersonJim2.jpg

mapplethorpe plain portraits done b/w 72 and 85
http://www.mapplethorpe.org/img/port_6.jpg/

meredith allen
http://www.meredithallen.com/static/dyn-images/0/177.jpeg/

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
http://www.artnet.de/artwork_images/733/80951t.jpg

Karen Arm
http://www.artnet.com/artwork_images_822_37288_Karen-Arm.jpg

Bill Owens
http://www.billowens.com/suburbia/013.jpg

Linda Anderson
http://www.memphis.edu/magazine/v22i3/chome1.jpg

Boas
http://www.dilettantepress.com/BOASimages/Boas1.jpg

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

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

http://www.american-buddha.com/aiggyscan1_small.jpg

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

http://www.printcenter.org/ExhibitsPics/Carl-Fudge.jpg

and this is one of the meredith allen photos--
http://www.pierogi2000.com/graphics/allenme1.jpg

Jane Fine

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

Jorg Lozek
http://www.sandronirey.com/data/1133992229-388489.jpg

Shary Boyle
http://www.sharyboyle.com/pictures/drawing/Drawing38.jpg

Yuichi Yokoyama
http://www.matiere.org/page3.jpg
http://www.matiere.org/voyage.jpg

Dan Attoe
http://www.peresprojects.com/g_large/2025.jpg
http://www.westernexhibitions.com/attoe/images/cumulonimbus.gif
http://www.westernexhibitions.com/attoe/images/skaters.gif
http://www.artnet.com/Images/magazine/reviews/gronlund/gronlund8-19-3.jpg
http://peresprojects.com/g_large/1275.jpg
http://peresprojects.com/g_full/1356.jpg

Otto Muehl
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/Wiss/FB/09/KunstgeS/arch/images/Federn.jpg

Another nice Jacob Magraw
http://www.sixspace.com/gallery/neighborhood/images/jm-3.jpg

Rover Feyer, whose image link above seems to be broken.
http://www.npgallery.com/images/artists/large/feyer_cluster.jpg

http://www.jamescohan.com/files/68ea2cc8.jpg
http://www.jamescohan.com/files/6b81242e.jpg
http://www.jamescohan.com/files/d9521a48.jpg

http://www.luhringaugustine.com/files/84dae30e.jpg
http://www.artfacts.net/artworkpics/1368b.jpg
http://www.dicoruna.es/cultura/interea/RevistaInterea04/pho/02_cama_3.jpg

http://www.quiltartisannharwell.com/enlargedview/halebopp.jpg
http://www.quiltartisannharwell.com/enlargedview/ngc1365.jpg
http://www.quiltartisannharwell.com/enlargedview/monocerotis.jpg

http://www.wesleyburt.com/imagefiles/newpaint.jpg

Nigel Cooke
http://www.modernartinc.com/nigelcooke/21.jpg
Detail:
http://www.modernartinc.com/nigelcooke/21a.jpg

Julia Jacquette
http://www.artcritical.com/golden/JJ1.jpg

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.
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/imgs/artists/trecartin_ryan/ryan_trecartin_family_still1.jpg

Stefanie Schneider
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/StephanieSchneider.jpg

Jonathan Meese, I find simply irritating.

Erika Somogyi
http://www.throughthetrees.net/newwork/sundaymourning.jpg

http://www.marygoldman.com/artists/cw/cw12.jpg
Charlotta Westergren

http://www.paulkopeikingallery.com/artists/greenberg/images/delirious.jpg
Jill Greenberg

http://www.meiselgallery.com/LKMG/imagesdb/head12.jpg
Clive Head

Bill Brown
http://channel.creative-capital.org/project_image_popup_419.html

HalfLifers (Anthony Discenza and Torsten Z. Burns)
http://mysite.verizon.net/holyokeresearcher/Afterlifers.gif

Matthew Ronay
http://www.ratio3.org/we_are_electric/wae_images/Ronay/ronay_7.jpg

Ben Butler
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/benbutler.jpg

Rowena Dring
http://www.rowenadring.com/images/stream.jpg
http://www.rowenadring.com/images/untwater.jpg

http://www.geocities.jp/sheceramic/gazo/koten0605.jpg

http://www.geocities.jp/sheceramic/gazo/koten0602.jpg

Aiyana Udesen
http://www.aiyanaville.com/images/portraits/courtney_treefrogs.gif http://www.aiyanaville.com/images/portraits/labrodorians.gif http://www.aiyanaville.com/images/portraits/britney_fish.gif

i take it all back kim cogan

Chris Foss
http://warden.idv.tw/warden/personalPage/graphics/chrisFoss.jpg

Syd Mead
http://www.fabiofeminofantascience.org/RETROFUTURE/meadcomposito.jpg

http://www.kellysalerno.com/art21/images/image34.jpg

http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/artists/c/celmins-paint-002.jpg

http://rarediseasesnetwork.epi.usf.edu/training/images/util/1x1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/sinkingshipdetail1.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/erika_somogyi1-1.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/divininglight1.jpg
http://www.throughthetrees.net/oldsite/newwork/outdoorencounter.jpg
http://www.throughthetrees.net/oldsite/restless.jpg

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.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/DOC.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/COFFEE.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b289/ilikehame/BACKSEATMEDIUM.jpg

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

http://static.flickr.com/84/242915163_5a9172685c.jpg?v=0

On the middle right of this image, you can see what most impressed me about this installation: the talking pie.
http://www.annahelwinggallery.com/artists/henry_coombes/henry_coombes_images/2006/LARGE/install_1.jpg

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

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

cough

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.

http://doudou.gheerbrant.com/blog2/wp-content/hammershoi1.jpg

http://web.ncf.ca/ek867/hammershoi.interior.jpg

http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/archiv/bilder/hammershoi_tuer.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii314/juliafuski/Hammershoi.jpg

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

blog is still going strong!

http://visualinventory.blogspot.com

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 knew it would b you!

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.

Martin Creed

Bonnie Sklarski:

http://www.indiana.edu/~sofa/human_nature/img/spring.jpg

Futoshi Miyagi:

http://fm2104.fc2web.com/other/birthdayhasbeen2.jpg

Giuseppe Liuciani:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/24/arts/24168521.JPG

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

http://www.recirca.com/reviews/2005/bernardfrize/images/1FrizeDiamant.jpg

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

So clever

Stefan Muller
http://www.galerie-nagel.de/site/a_image_popup.php?path=1193

Gunther Forg
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_138154_448598_gunther-forg.jpg

http://images.artnet.com/picture.asp?date=20080612&catalog=138752&gallery=425206326&lot=00121&filetype=2

^Kishio Suga

Mary Heilmann and Blinky Palermo I love you.

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

aurel schmidt

http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2008/01/16/aurel-schmidt.jpg

... Blinky Palermo I love you.

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

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

Haha! I rarely leave that!

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

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

Nick Cave (the other one):
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/fyer55samyah/nick_cave1.jpg?t=1237041294
http://www.curatedobject.us/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/17/sound_suit_1.jpg
http://lovekillmonster.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/nick_cave_installation_view_chicago_cultural_center_866_73.jpg

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

those nick cave soundsuits are awesome

as for me, i've been thinking bout:

jesper just

http://jameswagner.com/mt_archives/JustJesperBliss.jpg

jennifer west

http://roski.usc.edu/images/west_hollywoodsign.jpg

mel bochner

http://wordsmakethingshappen.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/22_ac_lg.jpg

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

crap. let's try that again:

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

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

http://www.cindywright.org/

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

Thanks Jeff - I only vaguely remembered it.

MUCH LOVE for mickalene thomas right now:

http://www.andrehn-schiptjenko.com/site/assets/images/ex_group_mlonguel.png

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.

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

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

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

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. . .

http://glennraytutor.com/images/tutor9.jpg
http://glennraytutor.com/images/glennray_new_006.jpg
http://glennraytutor.com/images/glennray_new_008.jpg
Glennray Tutor

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.

http://www.artslant.com/work/image/2028/sprecher_1.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/94363588_b8de21b876.jpg

Jered Sprecher

also, yes ruth root!

http://www.vimeo.com/4768078

can't wait for this documentary about sister corita

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1EkBpKvDgAo/STrBp3mQrWI/AAAAAAAAApU/bQq2fLhYSLI/s400/GlennLigon.jpg

glenn ligon

richard aldrich:

http://www.corvi-mora.com/richardaldrich/big/33.jpg

this is maybe one of my favourite paintings ever btw

Right now I am gear up into Christian Boltanski hypermode.

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:

http://images.nymag.com/images/2/daily/entertainment/08/07/15_artcandy_lg.jpg
http://images.artnet.com/images_US/magazine/reviews/kley/kley7-11-08-13.jpg

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...

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

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

http://www.markryden.com/images/painting/treeshow/paintings/large/Yoshi.jpg
http://www.markryden.com/images/painting/meat/cecelia/The_Ecstacy_of_Cecelia.jpg
http://www.markryden.com/images/painting/three/butcher/The_Butcher_Bunny.jpg

@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.

Robert Blanchon is a hip ref. these days i think

i came here to post blanchon ;_;

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

larry johnson's work is all about codes tho!

http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images_139919_507473_larry-johnson.jpg

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

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.

@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.”

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

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

i mean

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

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).

i need to stop saying 'discourse'

nah its a good word

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

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+

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

can anybody just visit that btw?

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

pfft viable research project

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.

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

but yeah, me neither

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.

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

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

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.

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.

http://rickyday.net/blog/MarkBradfordLosMoscos.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KiKDykb0sFg/SCtNXp7YlVI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/_S8b2xUcpN4/s400/mark_bradford_kryptonite.jpg

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

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.

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

turns out i was thinking of florian slotawa

http://www.mocp.org/Slotawa_web.gif

An artist I have been 'thinking about' ;) <3 <3 <3
http://img691.imageshack.us/f/123qrp.png/

hmm, that did not work

http://i31.tinypic.com/xlxmaq.jpg

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, July 27, 2010 6:24 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Having started doing research this week, let me just say: : D

Let me add to this thread: Alfredo Jaar

Whereas shoving pictures of War Torn 3rd World labourers in front of you, national geographic style, would be so glib and heavy handed as to render it ineffectual as art, his use of these types of images, via his arrangement of them (in mirrors, light boxes, etc.) and the according way that they are hence seen by and related to by gallery goes, I think, is laudable (of course I get so caught up in the technique that I forget the content, but that's a whole other matter).

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4v3o2tzGt1qzw5wjo1_500.jpg
http://www.leftmatrix.com/jaargeowr.jpg
http://thephotoexchange.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/alfredo_jaar_lowress3.jpg

Also, now grasping the connections between image, self-presentation, and psychic identity in her work, I've come to really appreciate Gillian Wearing.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TEcR6mijjFo/SvhbPGK5MfI/AAAAAAAAAHw/Rh7-Q7_6HFg/s400/gillian_wearing2.jpg.jpeg

http://www.artslant.com/userimages/3/Gillian_Wearing_FAF08.jpg

My favorite painter is an oil painter named Thomas Paquette
Maybe you have to see this guys work in person before you can realize or truly appreciate the beauty of it
I luckily had a random encounter with his paintings on exhibit when I was at college
I would describe his work as having profound beauty, grace and subtlety
But to use words from a press quote on his website: "Look into the art, and be drawn into the world of subtle drama and dramatic beauty he finds in ordinary places. All of the light, darkness and shadow—as well as the insinuation of hue and tone—in nature and life are expressed."
http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8172/010springinprovence2z.jpg
http://www.thomaspaquette.com/paintings/096/springbirchz.JPG

from the most recent press interview on his site
MS - Discuss which part of the creative process you find most stressful.
TP - All of it is stressful if you are doing it right.

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

― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Monday, May 24, 2010 2:59 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Somehow my brain froze and I thought that Magic Johnson's name was Larry.

Also:

Doris Salcedo

http://www.spudart.org/blog/images/2007/doris-salcedo-chairs.jpg
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/salcedo.jpg

saw the maurizio cattelan thing at the guggenheim thing, so right now, him

also thinking about willem de kooning and why i dont really like him

oh no hes good

have now seen 'under the big black sun' at MoCA twice, it really is an outstanding show

why don't you like de kooning, max?

the de kooning exhibition at moma was fascinating. like it was so much a better exhibition than he was a painter, bc it was so amazing to see how he grew and changed & eventually pared down, through necessity, almost as something apart from how much i liked his work.

This summer I realized that I think I like de koonings black and white paintings more than his colour ones, which is kind of shocking since I'm a huge chromophile.

i dont know why i dont like de kooning! i am trying to articulate it because i dont really have a good reason. partly its a general distaste for the macho-artist abstract expressionism THING but that feels like such a boring reason to count him out. really i went to the moma show the other weekend and left like completely unmoved.

THOUGH -- funny enough edb my favorite stuff was a collection of like 5 paintings and lithographs hed done in black and white, gorgeous stuff

2nded on 'Big Black Sun'-- alot of that was work I wouldn't have gone out of my way to see, but I was in LA to see the PST shows and heard how good it was. Very well researched and presented, with an immense amount of work.

As for who I've been thinking about: everybody in the "Phenomenal" show down at MCASD, which I also saw and loved last weekend.

i think the other reason i dont like de kooning is that i find most of his stuff kind of ugly and not even in an interesting way. thats shallow, i know. if he seemed like a more interesting person i might have a better "in"

what maria nordman is in that show does anyone know? i've been really obsessing on her after finding a piece about her in an artforum from 1979 at the library.

it's a film installation she did called 'smoke' from the late '60s i think? v 'warholian'

the two artists i've been thinking about a ton from the moca show are ilene segalove and now paul mccarthy of all ppl. and speaking of him i am really excited to see this show:

http://blogs.artinfo.com/lacmonfire/2012/01/23/l-a-raw-abject-expressionism-in-pasadena/

i never know which of the zillion art threads to bump but apparently mike kelley is dead:

http://www.galleristny.com/2012/02/mike-kelley-has-died/

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6428/birchesenvelopediii39x5.jpg

Today I've come with full force to Alessandro Mendini's work. A lot of concepts I've been thinking about with regards to my own work I'm finding he has explored extensively through his.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0qvyfdaaT1qz6av7o1_500.jpg

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0qszbyhrT1qz6av7o1_500.jpg

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ql2tCqxo1qz6av7o1_500.jpg

I'm interpreting these as symbols of everyday objects—their usefulness denied; their forms scaled, gilded, burned as effigies. Especially interesting to me is that in spite of this these are still products, Mendini is the head of a design house, all these object/sculptures are still useful. This isn't straight up Claus Oldenburg erecting giant monuments to the everyday; but a play with both form and function that, I feel, speaks poignantly about both. I also find them extremely beautiful!

Oh my god my mind is reeling from watching an hour and a half of Gillian Wearing confession videos (on top of another hour and a half of other G Wearing work that wasn't exactly emotionally lightweight either). Most depressing art exhibition I've probably ever seen.

William Leavitt
http://culturalcocktailhour.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/leavitt_-ca-patio.jpg
Lewis Klahr
http://www.whitelightcinema.com/PharaohsBelt.jpg
Song Dong
http://thebigredapple.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/DSC05740-1024x768.jpg

three visual artists whose names I am dropping on a message board

but I've been thinking about them too, as in "I like that"

they're showing some klahr films later this month at EPFC (don't think i've seen any)

frans zwartjes is a dude i am thinking about now

http://www.filmbank.nl/stills/zwartjes-living2.jpg

and wondering if possibly david lynch saw his work (super-cliche to call anything "lynchian" at this point but i think there are actual affinities there)

Franz Zwartjes is great! You should go to the EPFC screening, my friend Laida's films are showing that night too.

RIP Franz West

tania bruguera
public movement
elizabeth price
hito steyerl
wochenklauser
group material
ryan gander
marlon riggs
todd haynes
pablo picasso

did anybody go to documenta or the berlin biennial this year?

http://koikoikoi.com/2010/08/portraits-of-women-by-ikenaga-yasunari/

just saw one of this guy's portraits, then all the others, they seem very nice, thought oh no what if he is a sex pervert, chances are good