ten visual artists i have been thinking about

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