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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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.jpghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KiKDykb0sFg/SCtNXp7YlVI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/_S8b2xUcpN4/s400/mark_bradford_kryptonite.jpg
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Saturday, 29 May 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Really fucking tired of art that makes ironic use of childish themes.
― hills like white people (Hurting 2), Saturday, 29 May 2010 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen years ago) link
turns out i was thinking of florian slotawa
http://www.mocp.org/Slotawa_web.gif
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
An artist I have been 'thinking about' ;) <3 <3 <3http://img691.imageshack.us/f/123qrp.png/
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm, that did not work
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i31.tinypic.com/xlxmaq.jpg
― uNi-tArDs (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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.jpghttp://www.leftmatrix.com/jaargeowr.jpghttp://thephotoexchange.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/alfredo_jaar_lowress3.jpg
― EDB, Sunday, 12 September 2010 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― EDB, Sunday, 12 September 2010 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
My favorite painter is an oil painter named Thomas PaquetteMaybe you have to see this guys work in person before you can realize or truly appreciate the beauty of itI luckily had a random encounter with his paintings on exhibit when I was at collegeI would describe his work as having profound beauty, grace and subtletyBut 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.jpghttp://www.thomaspaquette.com/paintings/096/springbirchz.JPG
― false prophets talk in metaphors (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 12 September 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
from the most recent press interview on his siteMS - Discuss which part of the creative process you find most stressful.TP - All of it is stressful if you are doing it right.
― false prophets talk in metaphors (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 12 September 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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.jpghttp://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/salcedo.jpg
― EDB, Monday, 4 October 2010 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
saw the maurizio cattelan thing at the guggenheim thing, so right now, him
― max, Monday, 23 January 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
also thinking about willem de kooning and why i dont really like him
― max, Monday, 23 January 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
oh no hes good
― judith, Monday, 23 January 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
have now seen 'under the big black sun' at MoCA twice, it really is an outstanding show
― donna rouge, Monday, 23 January 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
why don't you like de kooning, max?
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 23 January 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 23 January 2012 11:30 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Frasier Ramon (EDB), Monday, 23 January 2012 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
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
― max, Monday, 23 January 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 23 January 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
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"
― max, Monday, 23 January 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― judith, Monday, 23 January 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
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/
― donna rouge, Monday, 23 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
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/
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/6428/birchesenvelopediii39x5.jpg
― monkeys on the ceiling fan, ceiling fan (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Dolly Parton Parcel (scottfree), Monday, 12 March 2012 01:52 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― EDB, Friday, 6 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
William Leavitthttp://culturalcocktailhour.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/leavitt_-ca-patio.jpgLewis Klahrhttp://www.whitelightcinema.com/PharaohsBelt.jpgSong Donghttp://thebigredapple.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/DSC05740-1024x768.jpg
― og (admrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
three visual artists whose names I am dropping on a message board
― og (admrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
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
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
Franz Zwartjes is great! You should go to the EPFC screening, my friend Laida's films are showing that night too.
― og (admrl), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
RIP Franz West
― EDB, Friday, 27 July 2012 07:36 (eleven years ago) link
tania bruguerapublic movementelizabeth pricehito steyerlwochenklausergroup materialryan gandermarlon riggstodd haynespablo picasso
― judith, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
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
― j., Thursday, 16 November 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link